SOP #02: Training Observers. Version 1.02. Pacific Island Network Focal Terrestrial Plant Communities Monitoring Protocol. Unpublished National Park Service Report, Pacific Island Inventory and Monitoring Network, Hawaii National Park, Hawaii.
Ainsworth A, Gross J, Akamine K. 2021. SOP #02: Training Observers. Version 1.02. Pacific Island Network Focal Terrestrial Plant Communities Monitoring Protocol. Unpublished National Park Service Report, Pacific Island Inventory and Monitoring Network, Hawaii National Park, Hawaii.
This SOP outlines the steps to train field crew members to identify native and non-native plant species within the Pacific Island Network (PACN) parks and to become familiar with methods used to collect field data on focal plant communities. Skill in plant identification is particularly important as misidentification of a species is one of the most serious errors crew members can make during vegetation monitoring.