Integrated Upland Vegetation and Soils Monitoring for Chaco Culture National Historical Park: 2008 Summary Report
DeCoster JK and Swan MC. 2009. Integrated Upland Vegetation and Soils Monitoring for Chaco Culture National Historical Park: 2008 Summary Report. Natural Resource Data Series. NPS/SCPN/NRDS—2009/016. National Park Service Natural Resource Program Center. Fort Collins, Colorado
The Southern Colorado Plateau Network (SCPN) is monitoring vegetation and soils as overall indicators of upland ecosystem integrity. The SCPN Upland Monitoring crew began monitoring at Chaco Culture National Historical Park (CHCU) in 2007 with the establishment of ten plots in the Sandy Loam Upland ecological site. SCPN plans to sample the quadrats and gap intercept transects annually for 3-5 years to determine the range of temporal variability for key metrics. Power analysis will then be used to determine the total number of plots necessary to detect change in the key metrics. The data in this report documents monitoring activities in 2008 and compares these data with the data collected in 2007. Field methodology is provided in detail in the SCPN Integrated Upland Protocol (DeCoster et al., in review).
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- DeCoster, James; Swan, Megan
- Date of Issue
- 2009-12
- Publisher
- National Park Service Natural Resource Program Center
- Units
- CHCU , NRSS , SCPN
- Keywords
- Abundance (Biodiversity), Monitoring, Observations, Presence (Biodiversity), Sandy Loam Upland ecological site, Soils, Taxa Links To Datasets, upland ecosystems, Vegetation, Vouchers