Northern Colorado Plateau Network upland monitoring SOPs: 2009 field season
Northern Colorado Plateau Network. 2009. Northern Colorado Plateau Network upland monitoring SOPs: 2009 field season
This document contains the Northern Colorado Plateau Network (NCPN) upland monitoring SOPs used during the 2009 field season. The following SOPs are included: SOP 1: Preparations and Equipment Setup Prior to the Field Season SOP 2: Training Observers SOP 3: Using the Global Positioning System SOP 4: Crust-Friendly Field Procedures SOP 5: Site Characterization SOP 6: Plot Establishment and Revisit Set-Up SOP 7: Repeat Photographs SOP 8: Measuring Vegetation and Surface Cover Using a Point-Intercept Transect SOP 9: Measuring Basal and Canopy Gaps Using Line-Intercept Sampling SOP 10: Measuring Shrub, Tree Seedling, and Exotic Perennial Density in a 1-m Belt Transect SOP 11: Soil Aggregate Stability SOP 12: Site Impact Assessment SOP 13: Measuring Overstory Trees SOP 14: Measuring Fuels SOP 15: Sampling Gambel Oak/Mixed Montane Shrub Plots SOP 16: Unknown Plants SOP 17: After the Field Season SOP 18: Data Management SOP 19: Data Analysis and Reporting SOP 20: Revising the Protocol SOP 21: Survey Design and Site Selection Refer to the "See Also" section for a link to the protocol narrative.
- Type
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Authors
- Northern Colorado Plateau Network
- Date of Issue
- 2009
- Units
- ARCH , BLCA , BRCA , CANY , CARE , CEBR , CURE , DINO , NCPN , TICA , ZION
- Keywords
- Monitoring, NCPN monitoring protocol, Plant Studies, soils, Upland, Uplands, vegetation
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Geology and Soils | Soil Quality | Soil Function and Dynamics , Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Grassland/Herbaceous Communities , Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Shrubland Communities , Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Forest/Woodland Communities
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