Final Report: Integrated monitoring within BCR’s: Creating a wildlife monitoring grid for the GPLCC

We used the United States National Grid to develop a sampling grid for monitoring programs in the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, delineated by Bird Conservation Regions 18 and 19. Landscape Conservation Cooperatives are science based partnerships with the goal to inform and guide conservation at regional landscape levels. Developing a standardized sampling grid for a LCC is a new endeavor and is designed to reduce program costs, avoid repetition in sampling, and increase efficiency in monitoring programs. This is possible because the grid’s nationwide coverage, uniform starting point, and scalability allow researchers to expand their monitoring programs from a small, local level to a regional or...

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: BIRDS, Colorado, Colorado, Federal resource managers, Final Report, All tags... Final Report, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, Kansas, Kansas, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Regional & county planners, Report, STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS, ScienceBase Great Plains LCC, South Dakota, South Dakota, State agencies, Texas, Texas, Wildlife Monitoring, Wildlife Monitoring, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Project Summary: Integrated monitoring within BCR’s: Creating a wildlife monitoring grid for the GPLCC

Summary of project, results, and recommendations for the project completed by David J. Hanni, Rob A. Sparks, and Frank Cardone of Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. Summary written by the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GP LCC).

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: BIRDS, Colorado, Colorado, Federal resource managers, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, All tags... GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, Kansas, Kansas, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Private land owners, Regional & county planners, Report, STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS, South Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Texas, Wildlife Monitoring, Wildlife Monitoring, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, completed, environment, Fewer tags

SiMPL Wildlife Magnet Project Data Release Volume 1 (2019 - 2023)

This volume's release consists of 281258 media files captured by autonomous wildlife monitoring devices under the project, SiMPL Wildlife Magnet Project. The attached files listed below include several CSV files that provide information about the data release. The file, "media.csv" provides the metadata about the media, such as filename and date/time of capture. The actual media files are housed within folders under the volume's "child items" as compressed files. A critical CSV file is "dictionary.csv", which describes each CSV file, including field names, data types, descriptions, and the relationship of each field to fields other CSV files. Some of the media files may have been "tagged" or "annotated" by either...

Categories: Data; Tags: Aegolius acadicus, Alces americanus americanus, Canis latrans, Canis lupus, Catharus guttatus, All tags... Corvus brachyrhynchos, Cyanocitta cristata, Dryocopus pileatus, Ecology, Lepus americanus, Leuconotopicus villosus, Lynx rufus, Martes americana, Mustela frenata, Mustela vison, New England, Odocoileus virginianus, Ondatra zibethicus, Pekania pennanti, Perisoreus canadensis, Picoides arcticus, Poecile atricapillus, Procyon lotor, Sciurus carolinensis, Setophaga coronata, Tamias striatus, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, Turdus migratorius, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Urocyon cinereoargenteus, Ursus americanus, Vulpes vulpes, Wildlife Biology, animal tracking, biota, boreal forest, ecological forestry, ecosystem monitoring, environment, field inventory and monitoring, forest management, remote sensing, small mammals, temperate forest, time series datasets, vertebrates, wildlife, wildlife biology, wildlife monitoring, Fewer tags

Evaluating the reproductive success of Arkansas River shiner by evaluating early life-history stage dispersal and survival at a landscape level

Reduced to its most fundamental level, the management problem addressed by this project is the basic conflict between the fact that fish need water and the reality that the amount and quality of the water available has been dramatically altered by human activities. For fishes dependent upon specific flows for successful reproduction, the quality and quantity of available water are likely the primary determinants of habitat quality. In many cases, the minimum requirements of water quantity and quality needed to support self-sustaining fish populations are unknown and thus there is no way for resource managers to effectively assess habitat quality and its ability to support fish populations under current or future...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2011, Academics & scientific researchers, Arkansas River shiner (Notropis girardi), Arkansas River shiner (Notropis girardi), CATFISHES/MINNOWS, All tags... FY 2011, FY 2011, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Management, Habitat Management, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Monitoring, OK-01, OK-02, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Policy makers & regulators, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Project, Publication, RIVERS/STREAM, Report, State agencies, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Wildlife Monitoring, Wildlife Monitoring, biota, completed, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Moose Project - Volume 2 (2021 - 2024)

This volume's release consists of 320104 media files captured by autonomous wildlife monitoring devices under the project, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. The attached files listed below include several CSV files that provide information about the data release. The file, "media.csv" provides the metadata about the media, such as filename and date/time of capture. The actual media files are housed within folders under the volume's "child items" as compressed files. A critical CSV file is "dictionary.csv", which describes each CSV file, including field names, data types, descriptions, and the relationship of each field to fields in other CSV files. Some of the media files may have been "tagged"...

Categories: Data; Tags: Accipiter gentilis, Aegolius acadicus, Alces alces, Alces americanus americanus, Bonasa umbellus, All tags... Bubo virginianus, Buteo jamaicensis, Buteo platypterus, Camera Trap, Canachites canadensis, Canis latrans, Canis lupus, Catharus guttatus, Colaptes auratus, Corvus brachyrhynchos, Cyanocitta cristata, Dryocopus pileatus, Ecology, Game Species, Junco hyemalis, Lepus americanus, Leuconotopicus villosus, Lontra canadensis, Lynx canadensis, Lynx rufus, Maine, Marmota monax, Martes americana, Meleagris gallopavo, Moose, Mustela erminea, Mustela frenata, Mustela vison, Odocoileus virginianus, Pekania pennanti, Perisoreus canadensis, Procyon lotor, Sciurus carolinensis, Sylvilagus floridanus, Tamias striatus, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, Turdus migratorius, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Urocyon cinereoargenteus, Ursus americanus, Vulpes vulpes, Wildlife Biology, Wildlife Management, Wildlife Monitoring, animal tracking, biota, ecosystem monitoring, environment, field inventory and monitoring, time series datasets, vertebrates, wildlife, wildlife biology, Fewer tags

Evaluating a tandem human-machine approach to labelling of wildlife in remote camera monitoring

Remote cameras (“trail cameras”) are a popular tool for non-invasive, continuous wildlife monitoring, and as they become more prevalent in wildlife research, machine learning (ML) is increasingly used to automate or accelerate the labor-intensive process of labelling (i.e., tagging) photos. Human-machine hybrid tagging approaches have been shown to greatly increase tagging efficiency (i.e., time to tag a single image). However, those potential increases hinge on the extent to which an ML model makes correct vs. incorrect predictions. We performed an experiment using a ML model that produces bounding boxes around animals, people, and vehicles in remote camera imagery (MegaDetector), to consider the impact of a ML...

Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, Information Sciences, Maine, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Vermont, All tags... Wildlife Biology, biota, camera trap, data labelling, machine learning, tagging, trail camera, wildlife monitoring, Fewer tags

Dartmouth College Woodlands Wildlife Monitoring Project Volume 1 (2014 - 2024)

This volume's release consists of 46576 media files captured by autonomous wildlife monitoring devices under the project, Dartmouth College Woodlands Wildlife Monitoring Project. The attached files listed below include several CSV files that provide information about the data release. The file, "media.csv" provides the metadata about the media, such as filename and date/time of capture. The actual media files are housed within folders under the volume's "child items" as compressed files. A critical CSV file is "dictionary.csv", which describes each CSV file, including field names, data types, descriptions, and the relationship of each field to fields in other CSV files. Some of the media files may have been "tagged"...

Categories: Data; Tags: Alces americanus americanus, Bonasa umbellus, Canis latrans, Canis lupus, Coos County, All tags... Ecology, Erethizon dorsatus, Lepus americanus, Lynx canadensis, Lynx rufus, Martes americana, Mustela frenata, New Hampshire, Odocoileus virginianus, Pekania pennanti, Poecile atricapillus, Procyon lotor, Sciurus carolinensis, Tamias striatus, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, Turdus migratorius, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Ursus americanus, Vulpes vulpes, Wildlife Biology, animal tracking, biota, ecological forestry, ecosystem monitoring, environment, field inventory and monitoring, forest management, remote sensing, small mammals, temperate forest, time series datasets, vertebrates, wildlife, wildlife biology, wildlife monitoring, Fewer tags

Integrated monitoring within BCR’s: Creating a wildlife monitoring grid for the GPLCC

We used the United States National Grid to develop a sampling grid for monitoring programs in the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, delineated by Bird Conservation Regions 18 and 19. Landscape Conservation Cooperatives are science based partnerships with the goal to inform and guide conservation at regional landscape levels. Developing a standardized sampling grid for a LCC is a new endeavor and is designed to reduce program costs, avoid repetition in sampling, and increase efficiency in monitoring programs. This is possible because the grid’s nationwide coverage, uniform starting point, and scalability allow researchers to expand their monitoring programs from a small, local level to a regional or...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, Academics & scientific researchers, BIRDS, CO-01, CO-02, All tags... CO-03, CO-04, CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Colorado, FY 2010, FY 2010, Final Report, Final Report, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Methodology/Protocol, Monitoring, NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, Nebraska, New Mexico, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Project, Report, SD-00, STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS, South Dakota, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, Texas, WY-00, Wildlife Monitoring, Wildlife Monitoring, Wyoming, biota, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Range-wide Population Estimation and Monitoring for Lesser Prairie-Chickens: Sampling Design and Pilot Implementation

Within the five states of its range (Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, and Colorado), the lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus, LEPC) remains present on sand sagebrush (Artemesia filifolia), mixed- and short- grass prairies of western Kansas and eastern Colorado, through portions of northwest Oklahoma, the northeast Texas panhandle, and into the shinnery oak (Quercus havardii) and sand sagebrush habitat of eastern New Mexico and western Texas. Agencies in these states monitor LEPC breeding populations annually within the known occupied range of the species, however, monitoring efforts have differed markedly among agencies and inferences have been made about populations using a variety of methods....

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2011, BIRDS, CO-04, Colorado, Datasets/Database, All tags... FY 2011, FY 2011, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, KS-01, KS-04, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, LEPC, LEPC, Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus), Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus), Monitoring, NM-02, NM-03, New Mexico, OK-03, Oklahoma, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, SAVANNA, State agencies, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, Texas, Wildlife Monitoring, Wildlife Monitoring, biota, completed, environment, Fewer tags