Description

Non-native plants have invaded most low-elevation habitats and physically disturbed sites in Waterton Lakes National Park (WLNP). Parks Canada devotes substantial resources annually to efforts to control or eradicate the most invasive and persistent non-native plants. A Non-native Plant Condition Monitoring protocol was developed to detect changes in the abundance and distribution of non-native plant species across vulnerable regions of WLNP, and to gain an understanding of the severities and differences in impacts that non-native plants have on native plant communities. Relative abundance (I.e. percent cover) of non-native invasive plant species in the fescue grasslands and aspen parkland regions in the WLNP is estimated using spatially balanced random sampling.

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Name	Format	Description	Link
Invasive non-native plants - Waterton Lakes - cover data - 1	CSV		https://open.canada.ca/data/dataset/cc3d7dc6-db8a-4bd8-85e5-4244452cbf7a/resource/36e9b2b0-a37c-48b6-8e87-e2ca453c3d2c/download/waterton_lakes_np_grasslands_invasive_non-native_plants_2015-2017_data.csv
Invasive non-native plants - Waterton Lakes - cover data dictionary - 2	CSV		https://open.canada.ca/data/dataset/cc3d7dc6-db8a-4bd8-85e5-4244452cbf7a/resource/9f8b5cc7-40b6-4573-a40c-2394e3ec91d2/download/waterton_lakes_np_grasslands_invasive_non-native_plants_2015-2017_data_dictionary.csv

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