SECN Monitoring [Current]: Landbird Communities
Parrish M . SECN Monitoring [Current]: Landbird Communities. 2014. National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) operates 32 Inventory & Monitoring (I&M) networks across the United States encompassing over 280 parks. Each I&M network implements a "vital signs" monitoring program in its parks. These vital signs represent elements and processes in park ecosystems that help indicate the overall health or condition of park resources. Just as people monitor vital signs such as blood pressure and pulse, the parks monitor selected vital signs to help them understand the condition and trends of park natural resources. Network personnel monitor physical resources and processes (such as air, water, climate, fire, erosion), biological attributes (such as species and biological communities), and ecological processes (such as disturbance and productivity). The Southeast Coast I&M Network (SECN) contains 15 parks containing natural resources, located across Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Each spring, SECN collects audio recording data during implementation of the SECN's Landbird Community Monitoring Protocol. Automated recording devices (ARDs) are used to capture landbird vocalizations every second morning between March and June at up to 30 spatially-balanced random sampling locations per park. Five of the SECN's 15 parks are sampled each year on a three-year rotation. All discernable bird vocalizations are reviewed from selected recordings and classified to species. These data address the following protocol objectives: (1) evaluate status of landbird community species richness during the spring breeding season and (2) assess landbird occupancy and spatial distribution at sampling locations during the breeding season.
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- Project
- Authors
- Parrish, Michael
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- National Park Service
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- Landbird Monitoring in Southeast Coast Network Parks - Data packages
- Landbird Monitoring in Southeast Coast Network parks: 2016 Data Summaries
- Landbird Monitoring in Southeast Coast Network parks: 2022 Data Summary for Canaveral National Seashore
- Landbird Monitoring in Southeast Coast Network parks: 2022 Data Summary for Fort Frederica National Monument
- Landbird Monitoring in Southeast Coast Network parks: 2022 Data Summary for Moores Creek National Battlefield
- Landbird Monitoring in Southeast Coast Network parks: 2022 Data Summary for Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park
- Landbird Monitoring in Southeast Coast Network parks: 2022 Species Maps for Canaveral National Seashore
- Landbird Monitoring in Southeast Coast Network parks: 2022 Species Maps for Fort Frederica National Monument
- Landbird Monitoring in Southeast Coast Network parks: 2022 Species Maps for Moores Creek National Battlefield
- Landbird Monitoring in Southeast Coast Network parks: 2022 Species Maps for Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park
- Landbird Monitoring in Southeast Coast Network Parks: Printed Species Maps 2016
- Southeast Coast Network Landbird Monitoring in the Southeastern United States, 2024 cumulative data package
- Standard Operating Procedure 1.4.01 Programming and Maintenance of Automated Recording Devices for Vocal Anuran and Landbird Monitoring—Version 2.1
- Standard Operating Procedure 1.4.22 Deployment and Retrieval of Automated Recording Devices for Vocal Anuran and Landbird Monitoring—Version 3.1
- Standard Operating Procedure 1.4.31 Navigation to Southeast Coast Network Sampling Locations for Landbird and Vocal Anuran Monitoring—Version 3.0
- Standard Operating Procedure 1.4.32 Classification of Landbird Vocalization Recordings—Version 1.1
- Effects of observer variability in the analysis of landbird recordings
- Landbird Community Monitoring Protocol Brief
- Landbird Monitoring in Southeast Coast Network parks: 2017 summary briefs
- Landbird Monitoring in Southeast Coast Network Parks: Printed Species Maps 2017
- Landbird Monitoring in Southeast Coast Network Parks: Printed Species Maps 2020
- Landbird Monitoring: Database and Technical Documentation
- Protocol for monitoring landbird communities in Southeast Coast Network Parks
- Southeast Coast Network Landbird Community Monitoring Database User Manual, Version 2
- Landbird Monitoring in Southeast Coast Network parks: 2022 Data Summary for Congaree National Park
- Landbird Monitoring in Southeast Coast Network Parks: 2022 Species Maps for Congaree National Park