Sierra Nevada Network Wetlands Ecological Integrity Monitoring
Sierra Nevada Inventory and Monitoring Network. Sierra Nevada Network Wetlands Ecological Integrity Monitoring. 2014. National Park Service
The National Park Service, through its Vital Signs monitoring program, has been charged with developing a series of monitoring protocols to evaluate the condition and trend of key ecological resources in national parks. The Sierra Nevada Network identified 13 vital signs for long-term monitoring. Three of these pertain to wet meadow and fen ecosystems and include macroinvertebrate assemblages, wetland plant communities, and surface/groundwater dynamics. In this document, we present a protocol for monitoring these vital signs in wet meadows and fens, which we will refer to hereafter in the document as “wetlands”. The Sierra Nevada Network parks where this protocol is implemented include Yosemite National Park, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, and Devils Postpile National Monument. The Wetlands Ecological Integrity monitoring project is designed to provide basic information on the condition of targeted wetlands (wet meadows and fens) and to allow for the evaluation of long-term trends of key ecological variables in Sierra Nevada parks. Biotic and abiotic variables are measured, with the expectation that some variables will react differently to potential anthropogenic stressors than others, thereby more effectively characterizing wetland ecological integrity
- Type
- Project
- Authors
- Sierra Nevada Inventory and Monitoring Network
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- DEPO , SEKI , SIEN , YOSE
- Keywords
- Devils Postpile National Monument, fens, groundwater hydrology, Kings Canyon National Park, macroinvertebrates, Monitoring, non-vascular plants, plant communities, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Sequoia National Park, Sierra Nevada, vascular plants, wet meadows, Wetlands, Yosemite National Park
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Wetland Communities
Program
Products
- Wetlands ecological integrity monitoring protocol for Sierra Nevada Network: Narrative version 2.1
- Wetlands ecological integrity monitoring protocol for Sierra Nevada Network: Standard Operating Procedures
- Wet meadow and fen mapping of Yosemite National Park (geodatabase)
- Wet meadow and fen mapping of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (geodatabase)
- Sierra Nevada Network Wetlands Ecological Integrity Well Data Report 2009-2024
- Sierra Nevada Network Wetlands Ecological Integrity: Well measurements and logger deployment data
- Sierra Nevada Network Wetlands Ecological Integrity: Continuous water level data
- Sierra Nevada Network Wetlands Ecological Integrity: Continuous barometric data
- Sierra Nevada Network Wetlands Ecological Integrity Plot Locations Geodatabase
- Wet meadow and fen mapping of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks: A photo interpretation mapping project of wetland resources
- Wet meadow and fen mapping of Yosemite National Park: A photo interpretation mapping project of wetland resources
- Monitoring Wetlands Ecological Integrity
- 2004-2005 Final Report: A pilot study and assessment of the efficacy of invertebrates as indicators of meadow change in Sierra Nevada Network Parks
- Mountain Meadow Monitoring Across the Western United States: A Synthesis with Implications for the Monitoring of Vital Signs in Devils Postpile, Kings Canyon, Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks
- Terrestrial and Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages as a Function of Wetland Type across a Mountain Landscape
- Terrestrial invertebrates: functional roles in ecosystems and utility as vital signs in the Sierra Nevada