Monitoring - Designing Monitoring Programs

Updated 05/29/2008

(1) General
 

(2) Specific

(1) General

Patuxent Wildlife Research Center’s Web site provides basic information regarding the design of a monitoring program:

http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/monitoring2/

(2) Specific

Terrestrial:
• Birds

• U.S. Forest Service publication, A Land Managers Guide to Point Counts of Birds in the Southeast, provides techniques for inventorying and monitoring populations of birds in southeastern forest habitats:

http://www.srs.fs.fed.us/pubs/viewpub.jsp?index=1594

• U.S. Forest Service publication, Monitoring Bird Populations by Point Counts, reviews technique for inventorying and monitoring populations of birds:

www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/documents/wild/gtr149/gtr_149.html

• U.S. Forest Service publication, Handbook of Field Methods for Monitoring Landbirds, provides general summaries of techniques for inventorying and monitoring populations of landbirds

• Butterflies—Recently established census (since 2000) carried out by members (volunteers) of the North American Butterfly Association to monitor occurrences of North American butterflies:

http://www.naba.org/
 

Aquatic:
• Amphibians—EPA publication describing methods for evaluating wetland condition using amphibians:

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http://www.oregon-plan.org

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