Plant Communities Monitoring for the San Francisco Bay Area Inventory and Monitoring Network
Songer K. Plant Communities Monitoring for the San Francisco Bay Area Inventory and Monitoring Network. 2013. National Park Service
This project contains products resulting from Plant Communities monitoring (PCM) at National Park Service, San Francisco Bay Area Network Parks. Plant community monitoring is a high priority vital sign for this network at Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GOGA), Muir Woods National Monument (MUWO), Pinnacles National Park (PINN), and Point Reyes National Seashore (PORE). In these park units, plant communities are numerous and exhibit a complex spatial arrangement on the landscape. Because it is not possible to monitor every type that occurs in SFAN, and because these areas lack any relatively permanent feature of the landscape that can be utilized to reduce variability in the data set through stratification, SFAN park managers selected a set of mapped vegetation types for monitoring. The sampling design consists of randomly selecting a subset of stands of each selected vegetation type from preexisting vegetation maps. One sampling plot per stand is used to collect data on a suite of vegetation parameters that represent structure and composition metrics, such as cover by species, density of woody plants, and species richness, among others. The sampling plot is based on modifications to the design used by the US Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis program. Each vegetation type is on either an annual or three year sampling rotation: a subset of communities is sampled annually (some herbaceous vegetation types) to better understand interannual variability, other communities are monitored every three years to promote the ability of managers to respond if large undesirable changes are detected.
- Type
- Project
- Authors
- Songer, Kelsey
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- GOGA , JOMU , PINN , PORE
- Keywords
- botany
- 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
Program
Products
- Forest structure in Muir Woods National Monument: Survey of the redwood canyon old-growth forest.
- What Are Transects, and Why Are They Important for Monitoring Natural Resources?
- Trials, Trails, and Tribulations of a Biological Plant Field Technician: Perspectives on Poison Oak
- Coast Live Oak Woodland Biodiversity Hotspot Under Threat by Sudden Oak Death
- SFAN Botany News
- Vital Signs & Climate Change: Tracking the Pulse of San Francisco Bay Area National Park Ecosystems into an Uncertain Climate Future
- Monitoring Team Confronts Trio of Problematic Plants
- Monitoring Long-term Change in Coastal Prairies of the Marin Headlands
- Native component grasslands of the Marin Headlands
- Plant community monitoring for northern coastal scrub in the San Francisco Bay Area Network: 2015 annual report
- Plant community monitoring for redwood forest in the San Francisco Bay Area Network: 2015 annual report
- Plant Community Monitoring in San Francisco Bay Area National Parks
- Plant community monitoring protocol for the San Francisco Bay Area Network of National Parks: Narrative version 1.0
- Plant community monitoring protocol for the San Francisco Bay Area Network of National Parks: Standard operating procedures version 1.0
- San Francisco Bay Area Network Plant Community Monitoring Datasets - SENSITIVE
- Plant Community Monitoring for the San Francisco Bay Area Network: 2013-2024 - Data Package - SENSITIVE
- San Francisco Bay Area Network Inventory and Monitoring web map showing locations of Plant Community types being monitored by the Plant Communities Monitoring Protocol.
- San Francisco Bay Area Network Inventory and Monitoring Plant community polygons with SFAN Plant Community Monitoring community type as an attribute, adapted from the PORE_GOGA_Veg_1994 map
- Plant Community Monitoring for the San Francisco Bay Area Network: 2013-2025 - Data Package - SENSITIVE
- San Francisco Bay Area Network Plant Communities Monitoring Database through field season 2025
- Plant Communities Monitoring Data Package creation GitHub repository scripts version SFAN_PCM_DataPackageScripts_v1.0.0.
- SFAN Fetch Access GitHub Repository version SFAN_FetchAccess_v1.0.0.
- San Francisco Bay Area Network Inventory and Monitoring Plant Communities Monitoring (PCM) repository for creating PCM dataset tables GitHub Repository scripts version SFAN_PCM_CreateDSScripts_v1.0.0.
- Plant Community Monitoring for the San Francisco Bay Area Network: 2013-2025 - Data Package
- Plant Communities Monitoring Data Summaries for the San Francisco Bay Area Inventory and Monitoring Network: 2015-2025 – Data Package
- Plant Communities Monitoring Data Summary and Data Summary Data Package creation GitHub repository scripts version SFAN_PCM_DataSummaryPackageScripts_v1.1.0.
- San Francisco Bay Area Network Plant Communities Monitoring Database through field season 2025 version 1.1
- San Francisco Bay Area Network Inventory and Monitoring Plant Communities Monitoring (PCM) repository for creating PCM dataset tables GitHub Repository scripts version SFAN_PCM_CreateDSScripts_v1.1.0.