Integrated upland monitoring in Arches National Park: annual report 2011 (non-sensitive version)
Witwicki D. 2013. Integrated upland monitoring in Arches National Park: annual report 2011 (non-sensitive version). Natural Resource Technical Report. NPS/NCPN/NRTR—2013/694.N. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
The goal of the Northern Colorado Plateau Network (NCPN) integrated upland monitoring effort is to provide park managers with status and trend information on vegetation and soil attributes. This information is intended to provide early warning of resource degradation and determine natural variability of upland resources. This report summarizes NCPN upland monitoring in Arches National Park (NP) in 2011. It outlines goals and objectives of NCPN upland monitoring, methods of the upland monitoring protocol, and procedures for defining and mapping target populations for monitoring, and describes the results of this year’s efforts and plans for future monitoring. In 2011, NCPN completed its second year of monitoring at Arches NP. Twenty-four plots were monitored, including 8 deep blackbrush plots, 8 pinyon-juniper/blackbrush plots, and 8 grassland plots. Early monitoring data describe status of ecological site types; interpretation is limited until additional data are acquired and more rigorously analyzed after at least five years of monitoring are complete.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Witwicki, Dana
- Date of Issue
- 2013-02
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- ARCH , NCPN , NRSS
- Keywords
- Monitoring, NCPN Uplands Monitoring, Plant Studies, Upland, Uplands