Northeast Temperate Network long-term forest monitoring SOP's: 2017 revision

Tierney G, Mitchell B, Miller K, Comiskey J, Kozlowski A, Faber-Langendoen D, Seirup C. 2017. Northeast Temperate Network long-term forest monitoring SOP's: 2017 revision. National Park Service. Woodstock, VT

These SOP's have been developed for long-term monitoring of forest vegetation within the National Park Service (NPS) Northeast Temperate Network (NETN) as part of the Inventory and Monitoring Program (IM). They include methods for assessing and reporting the ecological integrity of forested ecosystems. The 11 parks of NETN have been grouped together as a NPS Vital Sign network due to their common temperate forest systems. Northeast Temperate Network forests range from the central oak-hardwood forests of southern New England to the northern hardwoods and spruce-fir forests of northern New England, and include the pine woodlands of Acadia NP as well as the plantations and successional habitats found in several of the national historic parks. These forested systems are described in detail within the Conceptual Ecological Model Appendix of the NETN Vital Signs Monitoring Plan: https://irma.nps.gov/App/Reference/DownloadDigitalFile?code=434103&file=NETN_MonitoringPlan_VitalSign.pdf An extensive scoping process that included NPS staff from both the network and parks, academic researchers, and other stakeholders has identified key stressors to NETN systems. Within forested systems, key stressors include land use change and habitat fragmentation surrounding the parks (particularly fragmentation by roads), invasive exotic species, atmospheric deposition and ozone pollution, climate change, increased browsing pressure by white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), land management within the parks, and visitor impacts. Both the scoping process and these stressors are described within the NETN Vital Signs Monitoring Plan (Mitchell et al. 2006).

Type
Standard Operating Procedure
Authors
Tierney, Geri; Mitchell, Brian; Miller, Kate; Comiskey, James; Kozlowski, Adam; Faber-Langendoen, Don; Seirup, Camilla
Date of Issue
2017
Publisher
National Park Service
Units
ACAD , APPA , BOHA , ELRO , HOFR , IMDP , MABI , MIMA , MORR , NETN , NRSS , ROVA , SAGA , SAIR , SARA , VAMA , WEFA
Keywords
2017, Forest Health, NETN, Protocol, x#forestHealth, x#NETN, x#protocols, x#SOPs

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