Standard Operating Procedure 4: Documenting Site Disturbance
Leis SA, DeBacker MD, Morrison LW, Rowell GA, Haack JL. 2022. Standard Operating Procedure 4: Documenting Site Disturbance. HTLN
Both small- and large-scale disturbances can affect species distributions and abundances at a given point in time. Examples are animal burrows, herbicide use, and trail development. Documenting these disturbances and where they occur can enhance understanding of status and trends over both short and long-time scales. Providing this record in a form that is captured in the database rather than just field notes provides a way to quantify the information, coordinate it with other datasets, and archive it for the long term. A two-page datasheet called: Site Disturbance Assessment is provided. The observations are collected during regular vegetation monitoring and maybe generated between monitoring events when observations occur. Examples of when observations might be initiated include after fire events or when staff are collecting observations for other monitoring projects.
- Type
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Authors
- Leis, Sherry; DeBacker, Mike; Morrison, Lloyd; Rowell, Gareth; Haack, Jennifer
- Date of Issue
- 2022-11
- Publisher
- HTLN
- Units
- EFMO , GWCA , HEHO , HOME , HOSP , HTLN , LIBO , PERI , PIPE , TAPR , WICR
- Keywords
- fire ecology, monitoring, oak woodland, plant community, procedure, tallgrass prairie, vegetation, woodland
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Grassland/Herbaceous Communities , Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Forest/Woodland Communities , Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Vegetation Complex