NCRN Biological Stream Survey Stream Habitat Monitoring Data 2019
NPS - National Capital Region Inventory and Monitoring Program. 2019. NCRN Biological Stream Survey Stream Habitat Monitoring Data 2019. National Park Service. National Capital Region Inventory and Monitoring Program, Washington, DC
Physical habitat data collected at streams in the National Capital Region of the National Park Service. Data include attributes about the habitat within the stream as well as surrounding the stream such as vegetation buffers and land use. In 2005, the National Capital Region Inventory and Monitoring Network (NCRN) initiated a long-term water quality and quantity monitoring program, funded in part by the National Park Service Water Resources Division. The Biological monitoring portion of the program is carried out every 6 years at 37 sites within 10 of the NCRN parks. The data collected using this protocol will provide much needed baseline information on the stream biological resources in the NCRN, particularly in terms of community structure and composition. The information will also be used to determine long term trends in community composition, as well as trends in the abundance and distribution of individual species. Stream habitat surveys are conducted in both the Spring and Summer sampling seasons.
- Type
- Generic Dataset
- Authors
- NPS - National Capital Region Inventory and Monitoring Program
- Date of Issue
- 2019-12-31
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- CATO , GWMP , MANA , MONO , NCRN , ROCR
- Keywords
- application inventory registry, BIBI, Biological Stream Survey, biotic integrity, Broad Branch, DC, Fenwick Branch, FIBI, Fish, Flow, Habitat, Hazen Creek, IBI, Inlandwaters, Invertebrates, Luzon Branch, Maryland, Monitoring, National Capital Region, NCRN BSS Data, PHI, Physical Habitat Index, Pinehurst Branch, Rock Creek Park, ROCR, Soapstone Valley Stream, stream buffers, Streams, Structure, Vegetation, Virginia, Washington, Washington DC, Water, Water Quality