Description
The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) requires the use of ecological indicators to measure the success of restoration efforts. The Everglades amphibian community is ideal because amphibians are present in all habitats and under all hydrologic regimes. During Everglades restoration, hydrologic patterns will change and the response of ecological indicators will determine success. Fourteen amphibian species were detected through VES, vocalization surveys and trapping methods throughout the study and the occurrence information collected in this project database. USGS Southeast Ecological Science Center (SESC).
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 3,806 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is United States Geological Survey. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 0b7656f7-4b0c-4133-abe4-5ba95492d33c. United States Geological Survey publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
amphibians; restoration; ecological indicators; reptiles; Everglades National Park; amphibians; multiple species; animals; vertebrates; Metadata; Observation
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Everglades National Park, Florida, USA and surrounding water conservation areas.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [25.412, -80.738], North East [25.816, -80.501] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2004-07-12 / 2005-08-31 |
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Additional Metadata
This dataset provides a subset of fields from the original sampling project. The original dataset contains many fields with information such as environmental variables, observers/collectors, and field notes associated with each record. Use the 'Point of Contact' in this document for a complete list of, and to gain access to, fields associated with this subset of the original dataset. https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/53bc187fe4b084059e8bffca
| Purpose | Amphibian occurrence information was collected in this database along with ecological indicators and used to determine if amphibians could act as an indicator of success of restoration efforts in Everglades National Park and surrounding water conservation areas. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | 0b7656f7-4b0c-4133-abe4-5ba95492d33c |
| https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt/resource?r=usgs_sesc_everglades_herpetofauna_2005 |