Strategic Plan for inventories and monitoring on National Wildlife Refuges : Adapting to environmental change
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued almost 10 years ago
Summary
Description
This Strategic Plan summarizes and provides a longterm perspective for how the National Wildlife Refuge System will implement a nationally coordinated effort to support inventories and monitoring IM program at the refuge, landscape, regional, and national scale to inform management and evaluate the effectiveness of strategies to support adaptation to climate change and other major environmental stressors. The following foci are recommended for early consideration during development of the IM program: inventories of abiotic resources; inventories and monitoring of biota to include biological diversity; populations of priority species; vegetation inventories and mapping; genetic diversity; wildlife health; and phenology invasive species; water quality and quantity; fire and other landscape disturbance processes; contaminants; and Wilderness character.