General ecological monitoring program design, implementation, and applications: A case study from Channel Islands National Park, California
Davis GE. 1997. General ecological monitoring program design, implementation, and applications: A case study from Channel Islands National Park, California. Smithsonian Institution. Ventura, California
The design, structure, and function of a General Ecological Monitoring (GEM) program instituted to inform, guide, and evaluate natural resource preservation efforts in Channel Islands National Park, California. In 1980 Channel Islands National Park was established to preserve unimpaired, self-sustaining examples of coastal ecosystems off the coast of southern California. The region’s first conservation designation came in 1938 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed Channel Islands National Monument to protect the islands of Santa Barbara and Anacapa. Since then, many governmental bodies have conferred a variety of conservation designations on the five of the eight California Channel Islands and the sea around them that comprise the park (Table 1). This chapter describes the design, structure, and function of a General Ecological Monitoring (GEM) program instituted to inform, guide, and evaluate natural resource preservation efforts in Channel Islands National Park, California. The National Park Service leads an informal coalition of Federal and State agencies and private interests that sponsors and funds this GEM program, each acting under its aegis.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Davis, Gary
- Date of Issue
- 1997
- Publisher
- Smithsonian Institution
- Units
- CHIS
- Keywords
- Channel Islands, Coastal Ecosystems, Ecological Monitoring, GEM, general ecological monitoring, human induced stresses