This is a screenshot of the INHABIT web-based decision support tool for invasive species habitat visualization and assessment across the contiguous United States
Catherine S. Jarnevich, PhD
Catherine began working for the USGS while obtaining her doctorate in ecology in 2000. She gained skills in integrating disparate datasets of species’ location data and using these to generate spatially explicit models of species occurrence and abundance.
Catherine has developed a research program to assist multiple agencies and groups with species distributions, focusing on invasive species. Her current research involves the application of habitat suitability models to answer different applied research and management questions for various species across a range of taxa and spatial scales. She has also been working with spatially explicit state and transition modeling to inform efficient landscape scale invasive plant management.
Professional Experience
Research ecologist, Fort Collins Science Center, U. S. Geological Survey, Ft. Collins, CO: 2011 - present
Ecologist, Fort Collins Science Center, U. S. Geological Survey, Ft. Collins, CO: 2000 - 2011
Education and Certifications
Ph.D., Colorado State University (Ecology), 2004
B.S., University of New Mexico, NM (Double major: Biology and Anthropology), 1998
Science and Products
Fostering greater use of habitat models for managing rare and invasive plants on public lands
Climate matching with the climatchR R package
Predicting the phenology of invasive grasses under a changing climate to inform mapping and management
Assessing the Proliferation, Connectivity, and Consequences of Invasive Fine Fuels on the Sagebrush Biome
Predicting risk of annual grass invasion following fire in sagebrush steppe and rangeland ecosystems
Economic assessment of addressing annual invasive grasses across the sagebrush biome
Developing habitat models for rare plants to inform decision making on multiple-use public lands
INHABIT: A web-based decision support tool for invasive plant species habitat visualization and assessment across the contiguous United States
Managing Ecological Transformation to Enhance Carbon Storage and Biodiversity
Future Aquatic Invaders of the Northeast U.S.: How Climate Change, Human Vectors, and Natural History Could Bring Southern and Western Species North
Developing A New Software Package to Enhance Species Distribution Model Functionality
Creating a North Central Regional Invasive Species and Climate Change (NC RISCC) Management Network
US non-native plant occurrence and abundance data and distribution maps for Eastern US species with current and future climate
First and Second Record of US-RIIS Vascular Plant Species in Contiguous United States
Potential distribution of Japanese brome (Bromus japonicus) across the contiguous United States (October 2023)
Management summary table for INHABIT species potential distribution across the contiguous United States: additional management units
Thresholded abundance models for three invasive plant species in the United States
Occurrence data and models for woody riparian native and invasive plant species in the conterminous western USA
INHABIT species potential distribution across the contiguous United States (ver. 3.0, February 2023)
Data to create and evaluate distribution models for invasive species for different geographic extents
Simulation models for buffelgrass and alternative management strategies for Saguaro National Park, AZ
Presence and abundance data and models for four invasive plant species
Second Iteration of Range Wide Lesser Prairie Chicken Lek Habitat Suitability in 2019, Predicted in Southern Great Plains
INHABIT species potential distribution across the contiguous United States
This is a screenshot of the INHABIT web-based decision support tool for invasive species habitat visualization and assessment across the contiguous United States
Accuracy, accessibility, and institutional capacity shape the utility of habitat models for managing and conserving rare plants on western public lands
Non-native plant invasion after fire in western USA varies by functional type and with climate
Modeling habitat suitability across different levels of invasive plant abundance
The invasive plant data landscape: A synthesis of spatial data and applications for research and management in the United States
Invaders at the doorstep: Using species distribution modeling to enhance invasive plant watch lists
Models combining multiple scales of inference capture hydrologic and climatic drivers of riparian tree distributions
Climate change and ‘alien species in National Parks’: Revisited
Regional models do not outperform continental models for invasive species
Climate matching with the climatchR R package
Potential cheatgrass abundance within lightly invaded areas of the Great Basin
A framework to integrate innovations in invasion science for proactive management
INHABIT: A web-based decision support tool for invasive plant species habitat visualization and assessment across the contiguous United States
High-throughput calculations of climatch scores
climatchR: An implementation of Climatch in R
Science and Products
Fostering greater use of habitat models for managing rare and invasive plants on public lands
Climate matching with the climatchR R package
Predicting the phenology of invasive grasses under a changing climate to inform mapping and management
Assessing the Proliferation, Connectivity, and Consequences of Invasive Fine Fuels on the Sagebrush Biome
Predicting risk of annual grass invasion following fire in sagebrush steppe and rangeland ecosystems
Economic assessment of addressing annual invasive grasses across the sagebrush biome
Developing habitat models for rare plants to inform decision making on multiple-use public lands
INHABIT: A web-based decision support tool for invasive plant species habitat visualization and assessment across the contiguous United States
Managing Ecological Transformation to Enhance Carbon Storage and Biodiversity
Future Aquatic Invaders of the Northeast U.S.: How Climate Change, Human Vectors, and Natural History Could Bring Southern and Western Species North
Developing A New Software Package to Enhance Species Distribution Model Functionality
Creating a North Central Regional Invasive Species and Climate Change (NC RISCC) Management Network
US non-native plant occurrence and abundance data and distribution maps for Eastern US species with current and future climate
First and Second Record of US-RIIS Vascular Plant Species in Contiguous United States
Potential distribution of Japanese brome (Bromus japonicus) across the contiguous United States (October 2023)
Management summary table for INHABIT species potential distribution across the contiguous United States: additional management units
Thresholded abundance models for three invasive plant species in the United States
Occurrence data and models for woody riparian native and invasive plant species in the conterminous western USA
INHABIT species potential distribution across the contiguous United States (ver. 3.0, February 2023)
Data to create and evaluate distribution models for invasive species for different geographic extents
Simulation models for buffelgrass and alternative management strategies for Saguaro National Park, AZ
Presence and abundance data and models for four invasive plant species
Second Iteration of Range Wide Lesser Prairie Chicken Lek Habitat Suitability in 2019, Predicted in Southern Great Plains
INHABIT species potential distribution across the contiguous United States
This is a screenshot of the INHABIT web-based decision support tool for invasive species habitat visualization and assessment across the contiguous United States
This is a screenshot of the INHABIT web-based decision support tool for invasive species habitat visualization and assessment across the contiguous United States