Service Description: In response to a drought State of Emergency declared by the Governor in January 2014 and subsequent executive orders, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) was charged to implement projects that respond to drought conditions through habitat restoration and other measures. To provide scientific information necessary to meet these conservation challenges, leadership at CDFW prioritized establishment of a statewide resource assessment program, one component of which would be to monitor wildlife populations and their vulnerability to drought stressors. The purpose of Terrestrial Species Stressor Monitoring (TSM) was to begin the monitoring process by collecting baseline survey data on a wide variety of common wildlife species throughout the Great Valley and Mojave Desert ecoregions. Data collected at some or all study sites include infrared camera trap images, ultrasonic acoustic recordings, audible acoustic recordings, visual encounter surveys for reptiles and amphibians, avian point counts, and vegetation surveys. The data will be used to estimate occupancy and abundance of wildlife species and to model associations with drought and other habitat conditions.
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Description: Vegetation surveys were conducted at each Great Valley and Mojave Desert study site between March and June 2017. The surveys followed the California Department of Fish and Wildlife Vegetation Reconnissance Field Protocol and were representative of either the lifeform for which the survey site was selected, or the dominant vegetation type encountered on site, if the preassigned lieform was not found. These reconnaissance vegetation surveys are based on a representative stand with a subset of dominant or characteristic plant species and their cover values recorded rather than a plot based survey. Field crews determined the primary alliance for the stand and identified the dominant species present, along with percent cover and phenology information. If there was any uncertainty in keying to alliance, a secondary alliance was also described, along with any details to aid in later determination. The CDFW Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program reviewed and confirmed or corrected all field assessments herein.
Copyright Text: Brett Furnas; Wildlife Ecologist; California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW); WFD-WLB; ; (530) 227-3998; ; ; Brett.Furnas@wildlife.ca.gov;
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