63e72aa5-6ea3-4e9f-93fa-311605d3d290 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:22:32 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Social perceptions on Pinus radiata invasion and the influence of fire occurrence in Central Chile, 2023-2024 2025-04-28 publication 2025-01-06 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/63e72aa5-6ea3-4e9f-93fa-311605d3d290 10.5285/63e72aa5-6ea3-4e9f-93fa-311605d3d290 doi: Sánchez, P., Pizarro, J.C., Pauchard, A., Langdon, B. (2025). Social perceptions on Pinus radiata invasion and the influence of fire occurrence in Central Chile, 2023-2024. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/63e72aa5-6ea3-4e9f-93fa-311605d3d290 This dataset was constructed to understand the perceptions of respondents about pine tree invasion in three communes in central-southern Chile: Santa Juana, Constitución and Tucapel. In addition, the factors that influence the perception of the species and the interest of each community to participate in community control strategies were identified. Face-to-face interviews were conducted in two communities affected by megafires (Santa Juana and Constitución) and one community not affected by such an event (Tucapel), in order to check if there are differences in the willingness of the respondents. The variables evaluated include: (a) demographic data; with information on location, gender, education, age, economic activities and sectors of the respondents; (b) beliefs; whether they think that alien species damage the ecosystem; benefit people; and whether they think that the pine tree harms the traditions of the community; (c) what uses they give to wild pine trees; as fuel, construction material, economic, recreational and cultural purposes; (d) relationship between pine trees and forest fires; if they think that wild pine favours intense and frequent fires, if all vegetation has the same fire risk, and if they think that pine trees can grow back easily after fires, and (e) responsibilities associated with management; if they have ever controlled wild pine in their sector, personal, community, business and government responsibilities associated with management, and how likely they are to participate in strategies to control wild pine. Data were collected between November 2023 and January 2024. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/63e72aa5-6ea3-4e9f-93fa-311605d3d290 Sánchez, P. Universidad de Concepción PSANCHEZ2017@udec.cl author Langdon, B. Universidad de Concepción barbaralangdon@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8397-1774 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact Pizarro, J.C. Universidad de Concepción jpizarrop@udec.cl https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5240-2816 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Pauchard, A. Universidad de Concepción pauchard@udec.cl https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1284-3163 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Langdon, B. Universidad de Concepción barbaralangdon@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8397-1774 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Universidad de Concepción EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner Pinus radiata Wikidata 2012-10-29 creation fire GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Santa Juana Constitución Tucapel GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation invasive alien species community perception questionnaire-based surveys social dimensions otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Sánchez, P., Pizarro, J.C., Pauchard, A., Langdon, B. (2025). Social perceptions on Pinus radiata invasion and the influence of fire occurrence in Central Chile, 2023-2024. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/63e72aa5-6ea3-4e9f-93fa-311605d3d290 tin 100 English utf8 society biota 2023-11-01 2024-01-31 -73.74 -70.06 -38 -34.41 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/63e72aa5-6ea3-4e9f-93fa-311605d3d290 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/63e72aa5-6ea3-4e9f-93fa-311605d3d290.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Face-to-face interviews were conducted, with 62 surveys collected in Santa Juana, 78 in Constitución, and 80 in Tucapel, making a total of 220 surveys. ArcGIS and Google Earth Pro were utilized to select populated rural sectors. The areas visited represent different rural areas of each commune where people over 18 were invited to participate in the survey. To prevent any bias, neutral language was used when approaching the species, and the survey instrument was approved by the ethics committee of the Universidad de Concepción (CEBB 1567-2023).