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Rare Woodland and Forest Community Monitoring Protocol for Acadia National Park: Northeast Temperate Network

Rare Woodland and Forest Community Monitoring Protocol for Acadia National Park: Northeast Temperate Network

Miller, Kathryn M.
Mitchell, Brian R.
National Park Service, U. S. Department O.

Paperback

Series: Natural Resource Report Nps/Netn/Nrr?2012/529

Environmental Studies

ISBN10: 1495279790
ISBN13: 9781495279799
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 30 2012
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.25 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
Acadia National Park (ACAD) lies within a transition zone of the Maine coastline, containing ecological communities typical of both southwestern and downeast coastal Maine. Eleven of these communities, or associations as defined within the United States National Vegetation Classification, are rare within the state of Maine, and one is globally rare. The NPS Northeast Temperate Network (NETN) is establishing a long-term forest monitoring program in 10 national park units within the northeastern US. This program is designed to detect trends in forest condition. At ACAD, the network has installed 176 permanent forest plots. This sample size will allow detection of trends in park forests overall, as well as in some specific ecological communities. However, this effort will not yield sufficient sample sizes in rare community associations to assess trends in the condition of these communities. Rare communities are of particular management and conservation interest at ACAD, because they are rare and because they may be particularly sensitive to anthropogenic (human caused) impacts. This protocol was designed to provide data for the assessment of status and trend in rare woodland and forest communities within ACAD, and was adapted from the NETN Long-term Forest Monitoring Protocol.

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