Download or read book Alpine Vegetation Composition Structure and Soils Monitoring Protocol written by T. J. Sullivan and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document provides an evaluation of the Sensitivity of Inventory and Monitoring of the Rocky Mountain Network (ROMN) to Acidification Effects from Atmospheric Sulfur and Nitrogen Deposition.

Download or read book Alpine vegetation composition structure and soils monitoring protocol written by Isabel W. Ashton and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Alpine Vegetation Composition Structure and Soils Monitoring Protocol written by Isabel W. Ashton and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Alpine Vegetation Composition Structure and Soils Monitoring Protocol written by Isabel Ashton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rocky Mountain Inventory & Monitoring Network (ROMN) includes a wide range of environments, ranging from mountain peaks to evergreen and deciduous forests to Western grasslands. The six units of the Network include Glacier National Park, Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, and Rocky Mountain National Park. Here, we present a protocol to inventory and monitor alpine vegetation within the three mountainous units of the Network (Glacier National Park, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, and Rocky Mountain National Park).

Download or read book Rocky Mountain Network Vegetation Composition Structure and Soils Monitoring Protocol written by Daniel D. Manier and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rocky Mountain Network Vegetation Composition Structure and Soils Monitoring Protocol written by Daniel D. Manier and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rocky Mountain Inventory & Monitoring Network (ROMN) includes a wide range of biophysical environments, ranging from mountain peaks (>4000m above sea level) down through evergreen and deciduous forests to western grasslands of the North American Great Plains (

Download or read book Integrated Upland Monitoring Protocol for the Southern Colorado Plateau Network written by National Service and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-20 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Park Service, Natural Resource Stewardship and Science office in Fort Collins, Colorado publishes a range of reports that address natural resource topics of interest and applicability to a broad audience in the National Park Service and others in natural resource management, including scientists, conservation and environmental constituencies, and the public. Vegetation composition and structure, soil stability, and upland hydrologic function were selected as core vital signs for long-term monitoring within the Southern Colorado Plateau Network (SCPN).The network will monitor vegetation and soils within predominant upland vegetation types across most SCPN parks. The integrated upland monitoring protocol consists of a narrative, 14 Standard Operating Procedures and 6 appendices. The narrative portion of the protocol describes the rationale for monitoring upland vegetation and soils, establishes specific monitoring objectives, and provides an overview of the monitoring efforts. The Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) provide detailed descriptions of all activities related to vegetation and soils monitoring. Monitoring methods outlined in this protocol apply to the full range of targeted upland vegetation types occurring within SCPN parks, from semi-arid grasslands and shrub steppe at lower elevations, through pinyon-juniper woodlands at mid-elevations, to montane forests and meadows at higher elevations.

Download or read book Alpine and Subalpine Vegetation Monitoring Protocol for the North Coast and Cascade written by National Park National Park Service and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subalpine and alpine areas are ecologically important zones that provide popular recreational opportunities for visitors to Mount Rainier (MORA), North Cascades (NOCA), and Olympic (OLYM) National Parks. The subalpine parkland is a mosaic of tree clumps and herbaceous meadows extending from forestline to treeline. The sparsely vegetated alpine zone continues up to the permanent ice and snow cover the peaks of the Cascades and Olympics. Collectively, the subalpine and alpine zones comprise the alpine treeline ecotone - a transition between the closed canopy forests below and bare rock or ice covering the mountain or ridge tops. Vegetation distribution and composition in this zone is primarily determined by low temperatures, snow depth, and duration of snow cover and therefore is very sensitive to climate change.

Download or read book Structure and Function of an Alpine Ecosystem written by William D. Bowman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will provide a complete overview of an alpine ecosystem, based on the long-term research conducted at the Niwot Ridge LTER. There is, at present, no general book on alpine ecology. The alpine ecosystem features conditions near the limits of biological existence, and is a useful laboratory for asking more general ecological questions, because it offers large environmental change over relatively short distances. Factors such as macroclimate, microclimate, soil conditions, biota, and various biological factors change on differing scales, allowing insight into the relative contributions of the different factors on ecological outcomes.

Download or read book Vegetation Monitoring written by Caryl L. Elzinga and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annotated bibliography documents literature addressing the design and implementation of vegetation monitoring. It provides resources managers, ecologists, and scientists access to the great volume of literature addressing many aspects of vegetation monitoring: planning and objective setting, choosing vegetation attributes to measure, sampling design, sampling methods, statistical and graphical analysis, and communication of results. Over half of the 1400 references have been annotated. Keywords pertaining to the type of monitoring or method are included with each bibliographic entry. Keyword index.

Download or read book Alpine and Subalpine Vegetation Monitoring Protocol for the North Coast and Cascades Network written by Regina Rochefort and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Application of Threshold Concepts in Natural Resource Decision Making written by Glenn R. Guntenspergen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural resource managers face a complex decision-making environment characterized by the potential occurrence of rapid and abrupt ecological change. These abrupt changes are poorly accommodated by traditional natural resource planning and decision-making processes. As recognition of threshold processes has increased, contemporary models of ecological systems have been modified to better represent a broader range of ecological system dynamics. Key conceptual advances associated with the ideas of non-linear responses, the existence of multiple ecological stable states and critical thresholds are more likely the rule than the exception in ecological systems. Once an ecological threshold is crossed, the ecosystem in question is not likely to return to its previous state. There are many examples and a general consensus that climatic disruptions will drive now stable systems across ecological thresholds. This book provides professional resource managers with a broad general decision framework that illustrates the utility of including ecological threshold concepts in natural resource management. It gives an entry into the literature in this rapidly evolving concept, with descriptions and discussion of the promising statistical approaches for threshold detection and demonstrations of the utility of the threshold framework via a series of case studies.

Download or read book Vegetation Monitoring written by Caryl L. Elzinga and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Concept for Vegetation Studies and Monitoring in the Nordic Countries written by Jonas Erik Lawesson and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Biodiversity and Environmental Change written by Emma Burns and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Long-term ecological data are critical for informing long-term trends in biodiversity and trends in environmental change. The Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) is a major initiative of the Australian Government and one of its key areas of investment is to provide funding for a network of long-term ecological research plots around Australia (LTERN). This book highlights some of the temporal changes in the environment and/or in biodiversity that have occurred in different ecosystems, ranging from tropical rainforests, wet eucalypt forests and alpine regions through to rangelands and deserts. Many important trends and changes are documented and they often provide new insights that were previously poorly understood or unknown. These data are precisely the kinds of data so desperately needed to better quantify the temporal trajectories in the environment and biodiversity in Australia.

Download or read book Andrews Mangement Unit Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vegetation and Soil Monitoring Protocol for the Eastern Rivers and Mountains Network written by Stephanie Perles and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: