{"id":630,"date":"2020-11-22T16:09:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T16:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegetation\/?p=630"},"modified":"2023-03-23T16:44:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T16:44:26","slug":"invasive-species-in-central-kentucky-november-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegetation\/2020\/11\/22\/invasive-species-in-central-kentucky-november-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Invasive Species in Central Kentucky (November 2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Submitted by <strong>William Lyons<\/strong>, Graduate Research Assistant and MS Student at Kentucky State University in the College of Agriculture, Community,\u00a0and the Sciences. The image is from Raven Run Nature Sanctuary in Lexington, Kentucky, one of William\u2019s study areas.<\/p>\n<p>His thesis title: Accessing the Effects of Recreation Attributed Forest Fragmentation on the Spread of Invasive Species in Central Kentucky through UAV Multispectral Remote Sensing.<\/p>\n<p>His project aims\u00a0to\u00a0(1)\u00a0perform supervised classification and object based image analysis of 2019 NAIP imagery and multispectral UAV imagery\u00a0to identify two\u00a0endemic invasive plant species\u00a0to Central Kentucky\u00a0Amur honeysuckle,\u00a0<em>Lonicera maackii\u00a0<\/em>(Rupr.) Herder and Bradford pear,\u00a0<em>Pyrus\u00a0calleryana\u00a0<\/em>Decne, and\u00a0(2)\u00a0determine\u00a0the habitat attributes (slope, aspect,\u00a0elevation, canopy height, and canopy density)\u00a0that\u00a0these species are found in abundance.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Credit: William Lyons <br \/>Invasive plant species to Central Kentucky Amur honeysuckle, <em>Lonicera maackii<\/em> (Rupr.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegetation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegetation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegetation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegetation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegetation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegetation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegetation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegetation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegetation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegetation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}