Minneapolis-St. Paul Urban Tree Inventory

This dataset is a compilation of spatially explicit, species-specific urban tree inventories from across the seven-county Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) metropolitan area in Minnesota, U.S.A. The dataset was compiled to examine fine-scale patterns of tree biodiversity across MSP. Existing tree inventories were solicited from all municipalities, counties, park systems, and relevant non-profit organizations in the region for which we were able to find contact information, resulting in inventories from 37 municipalities, two counties, one park system, and one non-profit, along with two datasets from prior academic research efforts. The spatial and temporal scope of the inventories varies; for example, the inventories from some municipalities include data from a subset of only street trees at one timepoint, while other municipal inventories were continuously updated datasets with spatially comprehensive data for street trees in addition to some trees in parks and private lands. No inventory was fully comprehensive of all trees in an area. Data are assumed to have been collected between 2012-2022, although the timestamp on each data point is not explicit. Individual inventories were combined into one uniform database.