Service Description: The Alaska Exotic Plants Information Clearinghouse (AKEPIC) is a database and mapping application that provide geospatial information for non-native plant species in Alaska and neighboring Canadian Territories. These products are the result of an ongoing cooperation among the U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of Natural Resources Plant Material Center, and Alaska Center for Conservation Science (ACCS) in support of the Alaska Invasive Species Partnership (AKISP) and the Strategic Plan for Noxious and Invasive Plants Management in Alaska. ACCS administers the mapping application, database, and website associated with the project; project funding is granted by collaborators and contributed by users. These data are primarily intended to support the identification of problem species and infestations, thus promoting early detection and rapid response across Alaska. Additionally, the data are used in a variety of research and modeling activities.
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Description: ACCS tracks all non-native plants known to occur in Alaska. In addition, ACCS has compiled biographies for over half of the 400 non-native plant species that are known or likely to occur in Alaska. In collaboration with biologists, land managers, and weed scientists across the state, ACCS has developed an invasive plant ranking system that helps evaluate the potential invasiveness and impacts of non-native plants to natural areas in Alaska (Carlson et al. 2008). With funding support from the U.S. Forest Service, the Alaska Association of Conservation Districts, and the University of Alaska, we have ranked approximately 170 non-native plant species to date.
The AKEPIC_Data_Positive_Records is a dataset displaying only
positive occurrences from the AKEPIC dataset. This will display the best
available data on current infestations only. For example, Elodea sp. occurred
in Sports Lake on the Kenai Peninsula prior to 2017 but was eradicated with
herbicide. A follow up survey in 2018 and 2019 did not find Elodea sp. in the
lake. The updated negative occurrences overlay the old positive occurrences,
displaying the lake as negative. Therefore, neither the positive nor negative data
from this lake are included in this dataset since the lake no longer has
positive infestation records. Another example, professionals surveyed Whiskey
Lake and did not find Elodea resulting in a negative occurrence. This survey
effort would not be included in this dataset.
Contact for AKEPIC
For questions or comments related to the AKEPIC project, procedures for collecting or submitting presence/absence data, or non-native plant identification or systematics, please contact Justin Fulkerson (primary contact).
Copyright Text: AKEPIC (2023). Alaska Exotic Plant Information Clearinghouse database (https://aknhp.uaa.alaska.edu/apps/akepic/). Alaska Center for Conservation Science, University of Alaska, Anchorage. Accessed (November 09, 2021).
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