Monitoring the Vital Signs of Healthy Park Ecosystems

Alaska Park Science. 2010. v9. (1). Monitoring the Vital Signs of Healthy Park Ecosystems. Summer

Alaska Park Science is an award-winning journal published by the National Park Service, Alaska Regional Office. The journal reports information from on-going and recently completed research in and around Alaska’s national parklands. Alaska Park Science covers all relevant scientific disciplines in the biological, physical, cultural, and social sciences. This issue explores the "vital signs" of parks. The National Park Service's Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) Network studies broad ecological trends throughout parks, and uses those trends, or vital signs, to gauge the health of a park's ecosystem.

Type

Journal Issue

Date of Issue

2010

Units

NRSS

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Series

• Alaska Park Science

Contents

• Aerial Yellow-billed Loon Surveys in Cape Krusenstern National Monument and Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Alaska
• Recording the Trend: The Role of the Climate Monitoring Vital Sign in Understanding Park Ecosystems
• Shallow Lakes – Microcosms of Change
• The American Peregrine Falcons of Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Alaska
• Timing is everything – monitoring plant phenology in the Central Alaska Network

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• Alaska Park Science, journal

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