Description
Populations of Dall sheep (Ovis dalli) have been declining in the Chugach Range, Alaska since the 1990s (Herreman, 2018; Lohuis et al., 2018), which these authors attributed at least in part to climate-driven changes in habitat. Past research suggests that fire can increase the carrying capacity of habitat for Dall sheep (see citations listed by Herreman, 2018). To learn more specifically how fire affects Dall sheep in the Kenai Mountains, we conducted a habitat use-availability study within and near the 2019 Swan Lake Fire Burn on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. This dataset includes occurrences of plants documented as part of this project.
Enregistrements de données
Les données de cette ressource occurrence ont été publiées sous forme d'une Archive Darwin Core (Darwin Core Archive ou DwC-A), le format standard pour partager des données de biodiversité en tant qu'ensemble d'un ou plusieurs tableurs de données. Le tableur de données du cœur de standard (core) contient 774 enregistrements.
3 tableurs de données d'extension existent également. Un enregistrement d'extension fournit des informations supplémentaires sur un enregistrement du cœur de standard (core). Le nombre d'enregistrements dans chaque tableur de données d'extension est illustré ci-dessous.
Cet IPT archive les données et sert donc de dépôt de données. Les données et métadonnées de la ressource sont disponibles pour téléchargement dans la section téléchargements. Le tableau des versions liste les autres versions de chaque ressource rendues disponibles de façon publique et permet de tracer les modifications apportées à la ressource au fil du temps.
Versions
Le tableau ci-dessous n'affiche que les versions publiées de la ressource accessibles publiquement.
Comment citer
Les chercheurs doivent citer cette ressource comme suit:
Bowser M, Canterbury C, Chen R, Davis N, Farmer K, Grigsby S, Merrell K, Morton J, Solberg J, Strack S (2024). Kenai National Wildlife Refuge: Dall sheep response to fire: vegetation surveys. Version 1.6. United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.gbif.us/resource?r=kenainwr-dall-sheep-vegetation-surveys&v=1.6
Droits
Les chercheurs doivent respecter la déclaration de droits suivante:
L’éditeur et détenteur des droits de cette ressource est United States Fish and Wildlife Service. En vertu de la loi, l'éditeur a abandonné ses droits par rapport à ces données et les a dédié au Domaine Public (CC0 1.0). Les utilisateurs peuvent copier, modifier, distribuer et utiliser ces travaux, incluant des utilisations commerciales, sans aucune restriction.
Enregistrement GBIF
Cette ressource a été enregistrée sur le portail GBIF, et possède l'UUID GBIF suivante : 98897462-f677-4878-8a6a-8a5a812b3884. United States Fish and Wildlife Service publie cette ressource, et est enregistré dans le GBIF comme éditeur de données avec l'approbation du GBIF-US.
Mots-clé
Occurrence; Observation
Données externes
Les données de la ressource sont disponibles dans d'autres formats
Kenai National Wildlife Refuge: Dall sheep response to fire: vegetation surveys - 2023 survey data | https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Reference/Profile/175187 UTF-8 comma separated values |
---|---|
Kenai National Wildlife Refuge: Dall sheep response to fire: vegetation surveys - 2023 survey data, data sheets | https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Reference/Profile/163342 UTF-8 portable document format |
Kenai National Wildlife Refuge: Dall sheep response to fire: vegetation surveys - 2023 survey data, CSV format | https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Reference/Profile/175351 UTF-8 comma separated values |
Contacts
- Fournisseur Des Métadonnées ●
- Créateur ●
- Personne De Contact
- Fish and Wildlife Biologist
- PO Box 2139
- Créateur
- Biologist
- PO Box 2139
- Créateur
- Youth Conservation Corps Crew Member
- PO Box 2139
- Créateur
- Biological Technician
- PO Box 2139
- Créateur
- Biological Intern
- PO Box 2139
- Créateur
- Intern
- PO Box 2139
- Créateur
- Biological Science Technician
- PO Box 2139
- Créateur
- Biological Technician
- PO Box 2139
- Créateur
- Fish and Wildlife Biologist
- Créateur
- Senior Fire Fighter
- Personne De Contact
Couverture géographique
Our study area was set in the Kenai Mountains, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska.
Enveloppe géographique | Sud Ouest [60,496, -150,17], Nord Est [60,547, -150,007] |
---|
Couverture taxonomique
We primarily surveyed vascular plants, but some bryophytes and lichens were noted.
Kingdom | Fungi, Plantae |
---|
Couverture temporelle
Date de début / Date de fin | 2023-07-06 / 2023-07-26 |
---|
Données sur le projet
Pas de description disponible
Titre | Dall's Sheep Response to Fire: Vegetation Surveys (FF07RKNA00-090) |
---|---|
Identifiant | https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Reference/Profile/161528 |
Description du domaine d'étude / de recherche | This study area in the above-mentioned geographic coverage and the study extent described below consisted of hemlock forest, willow and alder scrub, alpine tundra, barren alpine areas, and patchy snowfields. |
Description du design | Within the extent described in the above-mentioned geographic coverage and study area, we selected areas where elevation (in metres) + slope (in degrees) * 20 > 800, which excluded low elevation, level areas and selected high elevation, steeper areas (see Bowser, 2023). We selected random sites within the study area by dividing it into tessellating 74 ha hexagons, then randomly selected sampling sites within the hexagons. Details of sampling site selection are available from Bowser (2023). |
Les personnes impliquées dans le projet:
- Personne De Contact
Méthodes d'échantillonnage
At each sampling site we followed the 100 m2 circular plot and point intercept protocols of Morton et al. (2006) with some additions: We estimated the percentage of each 100 m2 circular plot that had burned and we indicated whether each site had been chosen randomly or because Dall sheep had been observed using the site. We also photographed the plot from the ends of each 10 m transect toward plot center instead of the pair of photographs taken from south of plot center described by Morton et al. (2006).
Etendue de l'étude | Our sampling area included a system of ridges where the Mystery Hills to Round Mountain made up its southern and western extent and the ridges immediately north and east of Dike Creek made up its northern and eastern extent. |
---|---|
Contrôle qualité | Data sheets were checked in the field to make sure that point intercept tallies were within acceptable bounds. After data were entered into spreadsheets, these data were checked using a Quarto script (Bowser, 2024a) and corrections were made. |
Description des étapes de la méthode:
- We hiked to pre-determined plot coordinates of both randomly-selected sites and feeding sites. At each plot we set a pin at plot center, then we stretched one tape from 10 m south of plot center to 10 m north of plot center and another tape from 10 m east of plot center to 10 m west of plot center. A 5.64 m radius, 100 m2 circular plot was marked by points at 4.36 m and 15.64 m along the tapes.
- Using a standard datasheet (Bowser and Canterbury, 2023), we recorded whether a plot was a randomly selected site or a site where Dall sheep use had been recently documented. The percentage of the 100 m2 circular plot that had been burned in the 2019 Swan Lake Fire was estimated by eye. Plot coordinates were documented by GPS averaging.
- We sampled vegetative cover within the first 2 m above ground using the modified point-intercept sampling technique described by Morton et al. (2006). Using an avalanche probe marked with 10 cm or 1 cm increments as a sampling pin, we proceeded along the right sides of tapes from 0 m to 20 m, skipping plot center at 10 m. We sampled at every 0.5 m interval for a total of 40 sampling points per tape and 80 points per plot. We further split each point into two strata: intercepts at 0 to 1 m above the ground surface and from 1 m to 2 m above the ground surface; potential intercepts above 2 m were ignored. Each plant taxon that touched the pin one or more times was recorded within each stratum at each point. Only one hit per stratum per point per taxon was recorded at each of the 80 sampling points. If no vegetation touched the sampling pin within stratum, then “no plants recorded” was tallied. Consequently, a minimum of 40 tallies were recorded per point and stratum. The number of tallies recorded could exceed this value considerably depending on species richness. We also recorded subrates at each point along the transects. Substrate categories were bare ground (including rocks < 13 mm in diameter or width), rock (> 13 mm in diameter or width), litter (including wood < 25 mm diameter), dead wood (> 25 mm diameter), water, snow/ice, ash/charcoal, and basal cover of live vegetation. Any live vegetation recorded as a substrate (as basal cover) was also recorded by species in the 0 to 1 m stratum. The total number of substrates recorded should always equal 40 per transect (80 per plot). From the ends of each transect we photographed the plot facing plot center.
- We recorded all vascular plant species within 5.64 m (horizontal distance) of the plot center as described by Morton et al. (2006).
- Plants that could not be identified with confidence in the field were collected and pressed for later examination. For identifications in the lab we used relevant keys and floras including Hultén (1968), Welsh (1974), Bayer (1993), Douglas et al. (1998), Collet (2002), Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2002), Bayer (2006), Skinner et al. (2012), and Murrell and Poindexter (2016).
- Data from data sheets were entered by hand into tabular format (Bowser et al., 2024), and these were reformatted to Darwin Core format using a Quarto script (Bowser, 2024b).
Citations bibliographiques
- Bayer RJ (1993) A taxonomic revision of the genus Antennaria (Asteraceae: Inuleae: Gnaphaliinae) of Alaska and Yukon Territory, northwestern North America, Arctic and Alpine Research, 25(2), pp. 150–159. https://doi.org/10.2307/1551552 https://doi.org/10.2307/1551552
- Bayer RJ (2006) Antennaria Gaertner, in Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.) Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 19. Magnoliophyta: Asteridae (in part): Asteraceae, part 1. New York: Oxford University Press. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=101977 http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=101977
- Bowser ML (2023) Kenai National Wildlife Refuge 2023 Dall sheep project sampling design. Soldotna, Alaska: United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Reference/Profile/175338 https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Reference/Profile/175338
- Bowser ML (2024a) Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Dall sheep project, vegetation data checks. Soldotna, Alaska: United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Reference/Profile/175345 https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Reference/Profile/175345
- Bowser ML (2024b) Quarto script for exporting occurrence data from Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Dall sheep project, vegetation surveys 2023. Soldotna, Alaska: United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Reference/Profile/175408 https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Reference/Profile/175408
- Bowser ML & Canterbury C (2023) Kenai National Wildlife Refuge 2023 Dall sheep project vegetation survey datasheet. Soldotna, Alaska: United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Reference/Profile/175348 https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Reference/Profile/175348
- Bowser ML, Canterbury C, Chen R, Davis N, Farmer K, Grigsby S, Merrell K, Morton J, Solberg J & Strack S (2024) Kenai National Wildlife Refuge: Dall sheep response to fire: Vegetation surveys - 2023 survey data, data sheets. Soldotna, Alaska: United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Reference/Profile/175351 https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Reference/Profile/175351
- Collet DM (2002) Willows of Southcentral Alaska. Soldotna, Alaska: Kenai Watershed Forum.
- Douglas GW, Straley GB, Meidinger DV & Pojar J (eds.) (1998) Illustrated flora of British Columbia, volume 1: Gymnosperms and Dicotyledons (Aceraceae through Asteraceae). Victoria, B.C.: B.C. Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks,; B.C. Ministry of Forests. https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/pubs/docs/mr/Mr100.pdf https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/pubs/docs/mr/Mr100.pdf
- Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.) (2002) Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23. Magnoliophyta: Commelinidae (in part): Cyperaceae. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Herreman JK (2018) Dall sheep management report and plan, Game Management Units 7 and 15: Report period 1 July 2011–30 June 2016, and plan period 1 July 2016–30 June 2021. Species Management Report and Plan ADF&G/DWC/SMR&P-2018-34. Juneau, Alaska: Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Wildlife Conservation. https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/research/wildlife/speciesmanagementreports/pdfs/dallsheep_2011_2021_smr_gmu_7_15.pdf https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/research/wildlife/speciesmanagementreports/pdfs/dallsheep_2011_2021_smr_gmu_7_15.pdf
- Hultén E (1968) Flora of Alaska and neighboring territories. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
- Lohuis T, Smith K, Metherell L & Dial R (2018) Dall’s sheep population declines in Alaska’s Chugach Range may be related to climate and weather patterns, in Biennial Symposium of the Northern Wild Sheep and Goat Council. Whitefish, Montana: Northern Wild Sheep and Goat Council, p. 76. http://media.nwsgc.org/proceedings/NWSGC-2018/Lohuis%20et%20al.%20abstract.pdf http://media.nwsgc.org/proceedings/NWSGC-2018/Lohuis%20et%20al.%20abstract.pdf
- Morton JM, Berg E, Bowser ML, Eskelin T, Jozwiak L, Laker M, Magness D & O’Brien L (2006) Long Term Ecological Monitoring Program: Interagency agreement, original proposal, and 2004 field protocols. Soldotna, Alaska: United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Reference/Profile/132198 https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Reference/Profile/132198
- Murrell ZE & Poindexter DB (2016) Cornaceae Berchtold & J. Presl, in Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.) Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 12. Magnoliophyta: Vitaceae to Garryaceae. New York: Oxford University Press. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=10219 http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=10219
- Skinner Q, Wright S, Henszey R, Henszey J & Wyman S (2012) A field guide to Alaska grasses. Cumming, Georgia: Education Resources Publishing.
- Welsh SL (1974) Anderson’s flora of Alaska. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press.
Métadonnées additionnelles
Identifiants alternatifs | 98897462-f677-4878-8a6a-8a5a812b3884 |
---|---|
https://ipt.gbif.us/resource?r=kenainwr-dall-sheep-vegetation-surveys |