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Hawaiian Islands regional habitat suitability models for highly invasive plants for baseline climate scenario (1990-2009)

Published by U.S. Geological Survey | Department of the Interior | Metadata Last Checked: January 27, 2026 | Last Modified: 2024-07-08T00:00:00Z
We created a comprehensive estimate of potential distribution for a subset of 17 ecosystem modifying invasive plants (EMIPs) in Hawaiʻi. This work uses methods that integrate a wide set of data sources including agency and citizen science data, but perhaps more importantly, the integration of regional and global distribution information for these species. We developed transferable and comparable general species distribution models (SDMs) at global and regional scales based on a minimum set of biologically plausible predictors. The regional models were developed for each species using only regional location data and pseudo-absences (PAs) wihtin the extent of the main Hawaiian Islands and regionally derived bioclimatic variables (250 m). These models are available as both habitat suitability maps with pixel values ranging from 0 (low suitability) to 1 (high suitability); and as binary maps that separate areas of potential presence (1) from those where presence is not expected (0) based on the environmental predictors considered. This data set contains two regional model 17 band geospatial raster stacks for the suitability and binary maps with one band per each of the 17 EMIP species selected.

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