Description
Non-native pests (insects and diseases) can have multifaceted impacts on forest ecosystems. Data provided here can be used to estimate empirical measures of the aggregate impacts of all non-native pest species on mortality and carbon budgets in forests across the continental United States. Three sets of data provided here: 1) FIA data (three files, FIA1.zip, FIA3.zip, and FIA3.zip) contains multiple forest inventory data, 2) pest distribution data (pest_distributions.zip) contains species level distribution of 15 major pests, and 3) host tree list by pest (Pests_Hosts.xlsx). In addition, we provided the SQL code on how to run analyses on these data sets (SQL_GRM_2019.txt).
Please refer the following publication for full description on the analysis of these data:
Songlin Fei, Randall S. Morin, Christopher M. Oswalt, and Andrew M. Liebhold. 2019. Carbon losses resulting from insect and diseases invasions in USA forests (pending).
Detailed description of the data and instructions on how to run the SQL code can be found in the supplemental materials in the publication.
Cite this work
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
- Fei, S.; Morin, R.; Christopher Oswalt; Andrew Liebhold (2019). Invasive forest pest distributions and their impacts on forest biomass. Purdue University Research Repository. doi:10.4231/82EJ-B095
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The dataset can be more easily accessed through the ftp protocol as file 10_4231_82EJ-B095.zip on the PURR's FTP server. For instructions how to access the zip file, see https://purr.purdue.edu/kb/projects/access-datasets-using-ftp-client.