Riparian Habitat and Associated Wetlands Monitoring for the San Francisco Bay Area Inventory and Monitoring Network
Denn M and Ryan A. Riparian Habitat and Associated Wetlands Monitoring for the San Francisco Bay Area Inventory and Monitoring Network. 2012. National Park Service
This project contains products resulting from Riparian Habitat and Associated Wetlands Monitoring at Pinnacles National Park. The purpose of this protocol is to establish a long-term monitoring program for riparian and wetland habitats in Pinnacles NM. Monitoring in the monument can provide an early warning of wetland and riparian habitat change due to the threats described above. This early warning will allow monument managers to respond administratively to protect resources and focus on additional studies, if necessary. This protocol seeks to track wetland abundance, riparian vegetation community structure, and channel morphology characteristics. Specifically, the monitoring objectives are: Objective 1. Determine trends in the abundance of wetlands associated with stream channels at Pinnacles National Monument. Objective 2. Determine trends in riparian vegetation communities (foliar cover for several general guilds, foliar cover of specific tree and shrub species, guild richness) at Pinnacles NM. Objective 3. Determine trends in stream channel width and substrate size at Pinnacles NM. Together these metrics will provide monument managers with information about changes in habitats and surface- and near-surface water availability that are critical to monument biota. Monument managers will benefit from understanding trends in wetland and riparian habitat extent and complexity. This understanding will allow NPS employees to make better decisions regarding management of wetland-dependent species, identify any opportunities for local or off-site mitigation, and respond to as yet unknown threats to these important habitats.
- Type
- Project
- Authors
- Denn, Marie; Ryan, Amelia
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- PINN
- Keywords
- Monitoring, pinnacles, Protocol, Riparian, Vegetation, vegetation community, Vegetation diversity, Wetlands
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Wetland Communities , Ecological Framework: Landscapes | Landscape Dynamics | Land Cover and Use