Status monitoring programs

These are primarily extensively-reviewed large-scale programs or large collections of monitoring activities covered by one organization. By searching on the web you will find numberous examples of individual monitoring efforts on refuges and parks.

Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative monitors amphibians population trends on Department of Interior lands.

The Breeding Bird Survey monitors birds along the roadsides of North America using point counts.

The Butterfly Monitoring Scheme monitors butterflies at selected sites in the United Kingdom.

FrogwatchUSA monitors calling frog and toad populations on individual wetlands in the United States.

MAPS program monitors the productivity and survivorship of land birds in North America.

National Park Service Monitoring Protocol Database monitors within United States National Parks.

Adaptive management programs

Adaptive management is a new approach to incorporating developing management programs, so as yet there are relatively few examples of programs that have been successfully implemented. We will add additional sites as we become aware of them.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Adaptive Harvest Management program uses adaptive management to set harvest regulations for Mallard Ducks.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is conducting a study of grassland bird breeding use of managed grasslands on National Wildlife Refuges within Region 5.