| | Accession Number | 5003084 |
| | Title | Development of new monitoring techniques and programs for plants and animals |
| | Project Description | This task will explore at the pre-project level the statistical validity of existing monitoring programs |
| | and search out useful new target taxa for measuring environmental change . Existing monitoring |
| | programs will be evaluated for their statistical robustness and bias, and recommendations will be |
| | made as appropriate for developing projects aimed at improving sampling designs. Monitoring |
| | programs will also be evaluated on the basis of their relative costs and their relevance as |
| | indicators of environmental change at the park, refuge, state, or continental levels, as appropriate. |
| | Plant and animal groups not presently monitored will be statistically evaluated for their relevance |
| | in as bioindicators. For these groups new sampling methods will be developed. Methodological |
| | development and consultation on implementation may involve participants from federal |
| | governments, state/provincial natural resource groups, National Parks, National Wildlife Refuges, |
| | academia, non-government agencies, and the public. |
| | Keywords | amhibian, bee, bioindicators, bird, butterfly, cricket, dragonfly, frog, fungi, hymenopteran, indicator |
| | species, insect, katydid, lepitdoptera, monitoring techniques, mushroom, odonata, orthopteran, |
| | pollinator, population trends, |
| | Principal | Sam Droege, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center: sam_droege@usgs.gov; Paul Geissler, |
| | Investigators | USGS Biological Resources Division, Status and Trends Program: paul_geissler@usgs.gov; John |
| | R Sauer, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center: john_r_sauer@usgs.gov; |
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