SageSTEP Longterm Ecological Monitoring Network

Proposed work will monitor for five years vegetation, fuels, wildlife, insects, and weather at 10 Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project (SageSTEP) sites, all of which have been treated to reduce either juniper encroachment (woodland sites) or cheatgrass invasion (sagebrush/cheatgrass sites). Monitoring of treatment response over the long term will lead to a better understanding of the extent to which managers can manipulate vegetation, fuels, and wildlife habitat in the context of climate change.FY2010Objectives:1) assess longterm trajectories in populations of key plant and animal species, and link these trajectories to management restoration treatments and to climate change; 2) measure total ecosystem...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Columbia Basin, Ecological Monitoring, Federal resource managers, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, All tags... Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Monitoring, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Project, Report, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage Step Bridge Creek 5mi Buffer, Sage Step Devine Rdge 5mi Buffer, Sage Step Moses Coulee 5mi Buffer, Sage Step Saddle Mtn 5mi Buffer, Sage-Steppe, SageSTEP, Training/Outreach/Workshop, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Website, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Development of a Multimetric Index (MMI) for Integrated Assessment of Salt Marsh Ecosystem Condition NCBN Vegetation & Nekton Data

This dataset is comprised of eight files related to salt marsh monitoring data or measures of of human disturbance (i.e. human impacts in terms of physical, chemical, and land-use stressors) collected at 33 marsh study units (MSUs) in five National Parks within the NPS Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network (NCBN) along the northeastern coast of the US. Two files contain data related to the species and coverage of salt marsh vegetation observed in MSUs (1 data file, 1 definitions file). Two files contain data related to the species and abundance of nekton collected from creeks, pools and ditches in MSUs (1 data file, 1 definitions file). Two files contain data related to the height of key salt marsh vegetation species...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Active, Aquatic Vegetation, Assateague Island National Seashore, Worcester County, Maryland, USA, Cape Cod National Seashore, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA, Coastal and Estuarine, All tags... Ecological Stressors, Ecology, Fire Island National Seashore, Suffolk County, New York, USA, Gateway National Recreation Area, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA, Land Use Change, Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, Nassau County, New York, USA, Salt Marsh, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), ecological monitoring, human impacts, nekton, vegetation, wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags

Vegetation cover data used from the Soil Vegetation Inventory Method (SVIM) for Southwest Idaho

The US Department of Interior’s (USDI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has a long history of soil and vegetation monitoring of public rangelands it manages. However, historical monitoring data have been stored and managed at the field, district, or state level, making them difficult to compile and analyze. BLM’s Soil Vegetation Inventory Method (hereafter SVIM) program occurred between 1977 and 1983 in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming. Our objective was to extract and decode vegetation cover data from the SVIM dataset in a georeferenced, digital format. Vegetation cover data are available for 22,578 SVIM site write-up areas in nine states. The wide geographic...

Categories: Data; Tags: BLM’s public Land Survey System Dataset (PLSS), California, Crosswalk, Ecological monitoring, Idaho, All tags... Nevada, Oregon, Range, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Vegetation, Western US, Wyoming, biota, environment, farming, Fewer tags

Analysis of combined data sets yields trend estimates for vulnerable spruce-fir birds in northern United States

Abstract (from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320715001834): Continental-scale monitoring programs with standardized survey protocols play an important role in conservation science by identifying species in decline and prioritizing conservation action. However, rare, inaccessible, or spatially fragmented communities may be underrepresented in continental-scale surveys. Data on these communities often come from decentralized, local monitoring efforts that differ in their goals and survey protocols. We combine 16 point count datasets, controlling for differences in protocol and detection probabilities to estimate regional trends for 14 spruce-fir forest bird species across Northeastern and Midwestern...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Birds, Boreal birds, Ecological monitoring, Forests, Landscapes, All tags... Northeast CASC, Point counts, Spruce-fir, Trends, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags

Extent of fragmentation of coarse-scale habitats in and around U.S. National Parks

Abstract (from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320712002388): U.S. National Park Service land managers face a variety of challenges to preserving the biodiversity in their parks. A principle challenge is to minimize the impacts of surrounding land use on park condition and biodiversity. In the absence of ideal sets of data and models, the present study develops methods and results that demonstrate a coarse-filter approach to understanding the effects of land use change on habitat types for four pilot study-areas. The area of analysis for each park is defined by a protected-area-centered-ecosystem. Habitat types were defined by biophysical factors assumed to represent the distribution of vegetation...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Biophysical setting, Decision-support, Ecological monitoring, Fragmentation, Land use change, All tags... North Central CASC, Plants, U.S. National Parks, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags