Occurrence Records for 35 Invasive Forest Insects Across Native and Invaded Ranges

35 invasive forest insect species have their occurrence records compiled for niche shift analysis across the Northern Hemisphere. The dataset contains spatially filtered records, with no more than one per 10-km grid cell, and each record is classified as native or invaded range. Yuting Zhou published this foundational data for species distribution modeling on figshare in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling species distributions based on spatially filtered occurrence records.
• Analyzing ecological niche shifts by comparing records from native and invaded ranges.
• Training machine learning models for predicting invasive species spread using occurrence data.

Strengths

• Contains data for 35 distinct invasive forest insect species.
• Records are spatially filtered to reduce bias, with a maximum of one per 10-km grid cell.
• Each occurrence is classified into native or invaded range categories.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Yuting Zhou.

Collection Method

Occurrence records compiled from referenced literature and spatially filtered.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 07:53:23; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northern Hemisphere.