Cumberland Piedmont Network cave bats standard operating procedure 1: training sampling crew version 1.2

Cumberland Piedmont Network. 2023. Cumberland Piedmont Network cave bats standard operating procedure 1: training sampling crew version 1.2. Cumberland Piedmont Network

This standard operating procedure discusses the training of field sampling crews. Implementation of this protocol requires an overall project leader plus one to five other persons, in most cases. The project leader, a permanent employee intimately familiar with field sites and years of experience employing sampling techniques, oversees and directs project operations, including training of personnel. Field sampling crews will normally be comprised of the project leader (or designated field crew leader[s]) and from one to five field crew members. However, even properly trained field crew members can conduct some types of field sampling alone under certain circumstances (e.g., a summer bat emergence count outside a cave entrance that has relatively few bats and is not in a remote location).

Type
Standard Operating Procedure
Authors
Cumberland Piedmont Network
Date of Issue
2023
Publisher
Cumberland Piedmont Network
Units
CHCH , CUGA , CUPN , MACA , RUCA
Keywords
Bat Protocol, bats, cave, census, colony, count, data logger, emergence, hibernaculum, monitor, night vision, photography, relative humidity, temperature, thermal infrared, videography
Subjects
Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Cave Communities , Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Mammals , Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | At-risk Biota | T&E Species and Communities

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