Expert suggestions for fostering greater habitat model use in public lands management, elicited through surveys and workshops in 2024

Habitat models can help inform land management, but are not always used where they could be most helpful. In this study, researchers aimed to identify specific actions that could foster greater use of habitat models for managing rare and invasive plants on public lands. The researchers gathered data through surveys and expert elicitation workshops with modelers and model users. One workshop focused on management of rare plants and the other focused on management of invasive plants. The workshops included collaborative activities aimed at identifying broad solutions and specific actions for overcoming challenges related to using habitat models. This data release includes: the anonymized, paraphrased survey responses (SurveyResponses_UHM.csv) from Federal workshop participants who were asked to describe their experiences using or developing habitat models for public lands management; and anonymized results from both workshops, including a breakdown of workshop participant roles and organizations (WorkshopParticipants_UHM.csv), broad solutions for fostering greater model use in public lands management (BroadSolutions_UHM.csv), specific actions related to the broad solutions and dot voting results on which actions participants viewed as feasible or important (SpecificActions_UHM.csv), and written responses related to workshop goals, takeaways, and potential next steps (Notecards_UHM.csv).

生境模型（Habitat Models）可为土地管理提供科学决策支撑，但在其最能发挥效用的场景中并未总能得到应用。本研究旨在识别可推动公共土地上珍稀与入侵植物管理领域更广泛应用生境模型的具体举措。研究人员通过面向模型开发者与使用者开展问卷调查及专家征询研讨会的方式采集数据，其中一场研讨会聚焦珍稀植物管理，另一场则聚焦入侵植物管理；两场研讨会均设置了协作研讨环节，旨在梳理解决生境模型应用相关挑战的通用解决方案与具体实施举措。本次公开数据集包含以下内容：经匿名化处理、改写后的联邦研讨会参会者问卷回复（文件名为SurveyResponses_UHM.csv），这些参会者需分享其在公共土地管理中使用或开发生境模型的相关经历；同时包含两场研讨会的全部匿名化成果，具体包括研讨会参会者角色与所属机构分布详情（WorkshopParticipants_UHM.csv）、推动公共土地管理领域更广泛应用生境模型的通用解决方案（BroadSolutions_UHM.csv）、与通用解决方案配套的具体实施举措及参会者评选出的可行或重要举措的点数投票结果（SpecificActions_UHM.csv），此外还包含与研讨会目标、研讨收获及潜在后续推进步骤相关的书面回复（Notecards_UHM.csv）。