Invasive forest pest distributions and their impacts on forest biomass

<p>Non-native pests (insects and diseases) can have multifaceted impacts on forest ecosystems.  Data provided here can be used to estimate empirical measures of the aggregate impacts of all non-native pest species on mortality and carbon budgets in forests across the continental United States.  Three sets of data provided here: 1) FIA data (three files, FIA1.zip,  FIA3.zip, and FIA3.zip) contains multiple forest inventory data, 2) pest distribution data (pest_distributions.zip) contains species level distribution of 15 major pests, and 3) host tree list by pest (Pests_Hosts.xlsx).  In addition, we provided the SQL code on how to run analyses on these data sets (SQL_GRM_2019.txt).  </p>

<p>Please refer the following publication for full description on the analysis of these data:</p>

<p>Songlin Fei, Randall S. Morin, Christopher M. Oswalt, and Andrew M. Liebhold. 2019. Carbon losses resulting from insect and diseases invasions in USA forests (pending).</p>

<p>Detailed description of the data and instructions on how to run the SQL code can be found in the supplemental materials in the publication.</p>