Monitoring the "vital signs" of healthy park ecosystems

Record details

Physical Description: 51 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 22 x 28 cm.
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Publisher: Anchorage, Alaska : National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of Interior, Alaska Regional Office, [2010]

Content descriptions

General Note:	[June 2010] This issue is dedicated to highlighting the Inventory and Monitoring Program, a key part of the Natural Resource Challenge.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Inventorying soils in Alaska national parks -- Recording the trend: the role of the climate monitoring vital sign in understanding park ecosystems -- Monitoring local and global contaminants in Alaska parks -- The twelve baseline inventories : the Alaskan story -- Data management in the I & M program -- Monitoring Dall's sheep in Alaska's Arctic parklands -- Aerial yellow-billed loon surveys in Cape Krusenstern National Monument and Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Alaska -- Long-term monitoring of 1977 tundra fires in the northwest Alaska parks -- The American peregrine falcons of Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Alaska -- Shallow lakes : microcosms of change -- Timing is everything : monitoring plant phenology in the central Alaska network -- Driving the marine ecosystem : oceanography as a key long-term monitoring vital sign at Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve -- Indian River stream gauge monitoring -- A hotspot of lichen diversity : Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park -- Water, water everywhere : large lake monitoring in southwest Alaska national parks -- Salt marsh monitoring in Lake Clark and Katmai National Parks and Preserves -- Long-term monitoring of the marine nearshore in the southwest Alaska network.
Additional Physical Form available Note:	Also available electronically on the Internet.
Funding Information Note:	Funded in part by National Park Foundation and the National Park Service