SWAN Monitoring Vegetation Composition and Structure
Hannam M and Miller A. SWAN Monitoring Vegetation Composition and Structure. 2009. National Park Service
Vegetation is fundamental to ecosystem function, energy transfer, and element cycling. It drives ecosystem productivity, provides habitat and forage for wildlife, and food and materials for subsistence. Because vegetation responds directly to environmental drivers, it serves as a useful indicator of environmental change. Both remote sensing and ground-based monitoring approaches are being used to track changes in vegetation in focal plant communities, including sensitive communities. Monitoring objectives include the following: Map and quantify long-term, landscape-level changes in the distribution and extent of major land cover classes using satellite imagery and aerial photographs. Estimate long-term changes in species richness, abundance, and cover in focal ecosystems. Estimate long-term changes in vegetation structure (physiognomy) and demography, including patterns of recruitment and mortality, and changes in above-ground biomass. Vegetation composition and structure is monitored in Katmai National Park and Preserve, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, and Kenai Fjords National Park.
- Type
- Project
- Authors
- Hannam, Michael; Miller, Amy
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- KATM , KEFJ , LACL , SWAN
Program
- Inventory and Monitoring Division, I&M Inventories
- Southwest Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network (SWAN)
Products
- Protocol for Ground-based Monitoring of Vegetation in the Southwest Alaska Network
- Noteworthy Collection - Alaska
- Stand basal area and temperature interact to influence growth in white spruce in southwest Alaska
- Forest Dynamics
- Warming drives a front of white spruce establishment near western treeline, Alaska
- Spruce growth responses to warming vary by ecoregion and ecosystem type near the forest‐tundra boundary in south‐west Alaska
- Tree-ring isotopes reveal drought sensitivity in trees killed by spruce beetle outbreaks in south-central Alaska
- Vegetation monitoring – Southwest Alaska Network: 2013 Annual report – Baseline sampling in coastal forests of Kenai Fjords
- New and important vascular plant collections from south-central and southwestern Alaska: a region of floristic convergence
- Vegetation monitoring – Southwest Alaska Network: 2012 annual report
- Vegetation composition and structure - baseline monitoring in the Southwest Alaska Network: 2011 annual summary report
- Vegetation composition and structure - baseline monitoring in the Southwest Alaska Network, 2010 annual summary report
- Vegetation Composition and Structure: Baseline Monitoring in the Southwest Alaska Network, 2009 Annual Summary Report
- Vegetation composition and structure: baseline monitoring in the Southwest Alaska Network, 2008 annual summary report
- Path distance analysis to determine accessibility for long-term vegetation monitoring program, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve
- Climate variability and spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis) outbreaks in south-central and southwest Alaska
- Developing effective sampling designs for monitoring natural resources in Alaskan national parks: An example using simulations and vegetation data
- Vegetation Monitoring
- Coastal Forest Monitoring
- Vegetation composition and strucutre
- Vegetation Composition and Structure
- Data and Code for "Decoupling of temperature and growth of white spruce at western treeline, Alaska, is unrelated to intrinsic water stress"
- Southwest Alaska Network Ground Based Vegetation Monitoring 2007-2024 Survey Tabular Datasets
- Decoupling of temperature and growth of white spruce at western treeline, Alaska, is unrelated to intrinsic water stress
- Southwest Alaska Network Ground Based Vegetation Monitoring 2007-2024 Survey Tabular Datasets
- Southwest Alaska Network Ground Based Vegetation Monitoring: Soil Temperature Logger Files 2007-2023
- Vegetation Monitoring by the Southwest Alaska Network (SWAN): 2007-2024 — Data Package
- Vegetation Monitoring by the Southwest Alaska Network (SWAN): 2007-2025 — Data Package
- Vegetation Monitoring by the Southwest Alaska Network (SWAN): 2007-2025 — Processing Script