Cumberland Piedmont Network cave bats standard operating procedure 6: post-field sampling version 2.2
Cumberland Piedmont Network. 2023. Cumberland Piedmont Network cave bats standard operating procedure 6: post-field sampling version 2.2. Cumberland Piedmont Network
This SOP describes procedures to follow after completion of a field sampling event in/at bat cave entrances in the Cumberland Piedmont Network. The tasks detailed in this SOP roughly cover the period of time from when field personnel have left the cave after a count (or data logger deployment/collection/replacement/removal) has been completed to the point of starting data analysis.
- 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
See also
- A protocol for monitoring bats at cave roosts in the Cumberland Piedmont Network: Version 2.0
- Cumberland Piedmont Network cave bats standard operating procedure 1: training sampling crew version 1.2
- Cumberland Piedmont Network cave bats standard operating procedure 2: pre-field sampling and safety version 1.3
- Cumberland Piedmont Network cave bats standard operating procedure 3: summer cave roost sampling version 2.3
- Cumberland Piedmont Network cave bats standard operating procedure 4: winter cave roost sampling version 1.2
- Cumberland Piedmont Network cave bats standard operating procedure 5: cave meteorological sampling version 1.2
- Cumberland Piedmont Network cave bats standard operating procedure 7: data management version 1.2
- Cumberland Piedmont Network cave bats standard operating procedure 8: data analysis version 2.0
- Cumberland Piedmont Network cave bats standard operating procedure 9: reporting version 2.0
- Cumberland Piedmont Network cave bats standard operating procedure 10: revising the protocol and documentation of deviations and major changes version 2.0