SCPN Habitat-based bird community monitoring data 2007-2018

Description

This data package includes data that were collected from 2007-2018 as part of the Southern Colorado Plateau Network's habitat-based bird community monitoring protocol. Data were collected at eight ecological sites, representing homogenous habitat and soil types, at six national park service units (BAND, CACH, GRCA, MEVE, PEFO, WUPA). Data was collected in four overall habitat types: grassland-shrubland, riparian woodland, pinyon-juniper woodland, and mixed-conifer forest. The data set contains habitat-specific repeat visit bird survey data collected every three years at each park using point counts with distance sampling. Covariates influencing species detectability were collected during each survey, including percentage cloud cover, wind speed, precipitation, environmental noise, and survey time and date. In addition, microhabitat data was collected in each survey year at each point count station, including plotless measures of tree basal area by species and snag basal area, percentage canopy cover, sapling density, and categorical measures of foliage cover and foliage height in six different vegetation strata (herbaceous, dwarf shrub, shrub, sub-canopy, canopy, and emergent).

Resources

Name Format Description Link
8 Presence-only species detections and horizontal distances during point-count surveys https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/700866?Reference=2302328
8 Canopy cover measurements in each subplot for each survey year https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/700872?Reference=2302328
8 Survey-specific date, time, surveyor, and detectability covariates https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/700865?Reference=2302328
8 Vegetation height, foliar cover, and dominant plant species by subplot https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/700877?Reference=2302328
8 Slope, aspect, and topography within 50 m of point-count station https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/700867?Reference=2302328
8 Indicates which subplot vegetation data were collected each year https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/700868?Reference=2302328
8 Counts of tree saplings by species within 5-m-radius subplots https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/700874?Reference=2302328
8 Cover classes of plant communities within the macroplot https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/700870?Reference=2302328
8 UTM coordinates for each point-count station https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/700863?Reference=2302328
8 Estimated macroplot cover of roads, trails, structures, streams https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/700869?Reference=2302328
8 Indicates each year that each point count station was sampled. https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/700864?Reference=2302328
8 Foliar cover by vegetation type within 1.78-m-radius subplots https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/700873?Reference=2302328
55 https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/700871?Reference=2302328
8 Plotless measurements of snag basal area by subplot https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/700875?Reference=2302328
8 Plotless species-specific basal area measurements by subplot https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/700876?Reference=2302328

Tags

  • riparian
  • distance-sampling
  • pinyon-juniper-woodland
  • population-monitoring
  • detection-intervals
  • grassland-shrubland
  • long-term-monitoring
  • subplot-sampling
  • variable-circular-point-counts
  • bird-communities
  • ornithology
  • mixed-conifer-forest
  • angle-gauge-plotless-sampling

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