Download or read book Vegetation Community Monitoring Protocol for the Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network written by Kevin M. James and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vegetation community monitoring in the HTLN parks is designed to detect and describe changes in prairie, savanna-woodland and forested communities. There are three primary objectives for the monitoring defined in this protocol: 1. Describe the species composition, structure and diversity of prairie, savanna-woodland and forested communities; 2. Determine temporal changes in the species composition, structure and diversity of prairie, savanna-woodland and forested communities; 3. Determine the relationship between temporal and spatial changes and environmental variables including specific management practices.
Download or read book Vegetation Monitoring Protocol written by Suzanne Sanders and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book White Tailed Deer Monitoring Protocol for the Heartland Network Inventory and Monitoring Program written by David G. Peitz and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-term trends in deer abundance provide one measure of assessing their potential as a problem for a park. Documenting long-term patterns in deer numbers allows one to evaluate correlations with changes in vegetation (e.g., through restoration of the cultural landscape). With this information resource managers can more effectively identify and potentially mitigate damage caused to vegetation communities and endangered plant populations by deer. Monitoring data also helps managers assess safety risks from collisions and disease transmission. Long-term monitoring of deer numbers is critical in evaluating any population control measures a park may implement.
Download or read book Forest Vegetation Monitoring Protocol written by Suzanne Sanders and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fire Ecology Monitoring Protocol for the Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network written by Sherry A. Leis and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mid Atlantic Network Forest Vegetation Monitoring Protocol written by James A. Comiskey and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors details the forest vegetation monitoring protocol which is designed to inventory and monitor forest vegetation in nine parks of the national Park Service (NPS) Mid-atlantic Network (MIDN) and three parks of the Northeast Coastal and barrier Network (NCBN) as part of the Inventory and Monitoring Program (I&M).
Download or read book Baseline Plant Community Monitoring Report Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve written by Alicia Sasseen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network and Prairie Cluster Prototype Monitoring Program (HTLN) implemented monitoring at TAPR to provide analysis of baseline conditions and to assess future change in floral communities
Download or read book Plant Community Composition and Structure Monitoring Protocol for the Northern Great Plains I m Network written by National Service and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-21 with total page 156 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. In 2001, the National Park Service (NPS) established the Inventory and Monitoring (I&M), or "Vital Signs Monitoring", Program in Service units with significant natural resources. The NPS has organized more than 270 parks into 32 networks that are linked by geography and shared natural resource characteristics. The thirteen parks in the Northern Great Plains Inventory and Monitoring Network (NGPN) are located in five northern Great Plains states across six ecoregions and vary widely in size, amount of visitor use, and management context.
Download or read book Fire Ecology Monitoring Protocol for the Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network written by National Park Service and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Heartland I&M Network (HTLN) Fire Ecology program grew from recognition of the need for fire ecology support for several parks in the Midwest region without a dedicated fire ecologist. These parks include Effigy Mounds NM, George Washington Carver NM, Herbert Hoover NHS, Homestead NM of America, Pipestone NM, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, and Wilson's Creek NB.
Download or read book Vegetation and Soil Monitoring Protocol for the Eastern Rivers and Mountains Network Version 2 written by Stepanie Perles and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This protocol outlines the justification, objectives, and procedures developed for long-term monitoring of vegetation and soil throughout the National Parks Service's (NPS) Eastern Rivers and Mountains Network (ERMN) within the Inventory and Monitoring Program. Included in this protocol are: (1) background, rationale, and objectives for monitoring of vegetation and soil, (2) sampling design, (3) field methods, (4) data management, analysis, and reporting, (5) personnel requirements and training, and (6) operational requirements. Detailed Standard Operating Procedures that describe how all aspects of the protocol are implemented are included at the end of this document.
Download or read book National Capital Region Network Long Term Forest Vegetation Monitoring Protocol Version 2 0 written by National Park Service and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vital sign selection process of the NPS Inventory and Monitoring Program (I&M) identified forest vegetation monitoring as a critical need for the parks of the National Capital Region Network (NCRN). The data collected using this protocol will provide much needed baseline information on the forests in the NCRN, particularly in terms of community structure and composition. The information will also be used to determine long term trends in community composition, and in the abundance and distribution of individual species.
Download or read book Vegetation Community Monitoring at Timucuan Ecological and Historical Preserve and Fort Caroline National Memorial 2009 written by Michael W. Byrne and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2009, the National Park Service (NPS) Southeast Coast Network (SECN) Inventory and Monitoring Network began collecting vegetation community data as part the NPS Vital Signs monitoring program. Information collected under this Vital Sign will be used to help managers make better informed decisions by understanding trends and variability related to plant species, frequency of occurrence, percent cover, diversity, and distribution in the groundcover, shrub, and canopy strata.
Download or read book Plant Community Composition and Structure Monitoring Protocol for the Northern Great Plains I m Network Standard Operating Procedures written by National Service and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-20 with total page 276 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. The Northern Great Plains Inventory and Monitoring Network (NGPN) includes thirteen park units located in five northern Great Plains states across six ecoregions. This publication contains the standard operating procedures needed to implement plant community monitoring.
Download or read book Forest Vegetation Monitoring Protocol for National Parks in the North Coast and Cascades Network written by Andrea Woodward and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Breeding Bird Monitoring Protocol for the Heartland Network Inventory and Monitoring Program written by David G. Peitz and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is against a backdrop of vanishing or altered ecosystems, declining bird populations and the unique role that National Park Service lands can play in conserving threatened bird species that the authors propose monitoring avian communities on National Park Service lands within the HTLN. Long-term trends in the community composition and abundance of breeding bird populations provide one measure for assessing the ecological integrity and sustainability of ecosystems. Long-term patterns in community composition and species abundance in relation to changes in the structural diversity of vegetation will improve our understanding of the effects of various management actions. There are two primary objectives for the monitoring described in this protocol: 1. Identify significant temporal changes in composition and abundance of bird communities in 11 parks within the HTLN during the breeding season. 2. Improve our understanding of breeding bird – habitat relationships and the effects of management actions such as grazing, exotic plant removal and prescribed fire regimes on bird populations, by correlating changes in bird community composition and abundance with changes in habitat variables.
Download or read book Vegetation Community Monitoring at Fort Frederica National Monument 2009 written by Michael W. Byrne and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2009, the National Park Service (NPS) Southeast Coast Network (SECN) Inventory and Monitoring Network began collecting vegetation community data as part the NPS Vital Signs monitoring program. Information collected under this Vital Sign will be used to help managers make better-informed decisions by understanding trends and variability related to plant species, frequency of occurrence, percent cover, diversity, and distribution in the groundcover, shrub, and canopy strata.
Download or read book Greater Yellowstone Network Upland Vegetation Monitoring Protocol Narrative Version 1 0 written by National Park National Park Service and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document describes a protocol for monitoring indicators of ecological condition in upland plant communities of Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area (Bighorn Canyon). Upland vegetation and soils at Bighorn Canyon were identified as a vital sign in the Greater Yellowstone Network's (GRYN) monitoring plan (Jean et al. 2005) and as an important indicator of ecological response to climate change in the National Park Service's (NPS) climate change response strategy for high elevation parks (Bingham et al. 2010).
