Project Title/Unique ID:  MNFI_DRT-908_plants_202307

Plants in the Great Lakes region 


Requestor Background: Purpose of Request: 

Network member Rebecca Rogers, GIS/IT Manager, with MNFI at Michigan State University Extension is requesting plant occurrences by HUC-8 in the Great Lakes region, which includes Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. She is also requesting precise species element occurrence records for the Rusty-patched Bumble Bee for the same geographic area and that data request is covered in a different project and project summary (Michigan Natural Features Inventory - March 2023 (DRT-908)). MNFI's mission is to guide the conservation of Michigan’s biodiversity by providing the highest quality scientific expertise and information.


Geographic Scope: US-IL, US-IN, US-MN, US-OH, US-WI 

    

Scope of Request:  

    Precise EOs are not needed for this portion of the request only the following information:

  1. EOID
  2. Species
  3. Element code (in case name/synonym differs)
  4. Representation Accuracy
  5. Last observed date
  6. Source Feature ID(s) and uncertainty distance(s)
  7. EO rank
  8. EO Origin Subrank (e.g., introduced population?)
  9. Acreage
  10. Dataset citation (e.g., Michigan Natural Features Inventory. 2022. Biotics 5 - Michigan’s Natural Heritage Database. Accessed 29 January 2022)
  11. Basin (e.g., HUC8 identifier or words)
    1. Link to HUC8-GreatLakesBasin.zip: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11LBplSNqfAE0WXyhs_WuA8poTevOKDAh/view?usp=sharing


    Mode of Delivery: 

    The data was provided in a password protected Excel file or similar format.  


Purpose of Request:  

The Great Lakes Water Life database (GLANSIS ) started off as a “Great Lakes Waterlife Gallery” to provide access to photographs of Great Lakes microorganisms. With the support of NOAA and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the gallery expanded into the Great Lakes Water Life database, a regionally specific reference inventory for species presence information, taxonomic keys, and links to other resources eventually including fish, benthos, zooplankton, and algae. The Great Lakes Water Life database serves as a resource for researchers and managers studying the Great Lakes by facilitating the generation of expected species lists and finding unfamiliar taxa. With vascular plants being an obvious gap within the database, Rochelle Sturtevant of Michigan SeaGrant and NOAA reached out to the Michigan Natural Features Inventory to fill the gap. MNFI is seeking documentation of presence of vascular plant species in the Great Lakes to the coarse basin level (e.g., Lake Michigan, Niagara River). We are adapting the procedures of Anett Trebitz, US EPA (Trebitz et al. 2019) to populate the inventory for vascular plants. The information will be distributed through the Great Lakes Water Life online database, a journal article describing our procedures, a presentation on that article, and the dataset of occurrence documentation to that coarse basin-level. 5 people will have access to the dataset internally.