Mojave Desert Network Vital Signs Monitoring Plan
Chung-MacCoubrey A, Truitt RE, Caudill CC, Rodhouse TJ, Irvine KM, Siderius JR, Chang VK. 2008. Mojave Desert Network Vital Signs Monitoring Plan. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
The Mojave Desert Network (MOJN) Vital Signs Monitoring Plan (VSMP) provides a framework for the network’s long-term natural resource monitoring program. The result of an extensive, multi-year planning process, the VSMP addresses all aspects of the planned monitoring program, from program goals and administration to sampling design, data analysis, and reporting. Specifically, the MOJN VSMP provides background information about the network parks, describes conceptual models used to guide and support program development, identifies the network’s 20 final Vital Signs, the process for selecting them, and their grouping into protocols, discusses sampling concepts and preliminary sampling designs, describes how data will be managed, analyzed, and reported, proposes a staffing plan, implementation schedule, and budget, and outlines the administrative framework and mechanisms for program oversight.
- Type
- Administrative
- Authors
- Chung-MacCoubrey, Alice; Truitt, Robert; Caudill, Christopher; Rodhouse, Thomas; Irvine, Kathryn; Siderius, Joel; Chang, Victoria
- Date of Issue
- 2008-09
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- DEVA , GRBA , JOTR , LAKE , MANZ , MOJA , MOJN , NRSS , PARA
- Keywords
- Air Quality, altered disturbance regime, conceptual ecological model, Data Management, Invasive Species, MOJN Planning, Natural Resources, Protocol development, Resource Management, Water Quality