Alaska Landbird Monitoring Survey Dataset ...

• Main Authors: Colleen M Handel, Lisa Pajot, Steven M Matsuoka
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: U.S. Geological Survey 2024
• Subjects: Wildlife; Ecology; FOS Biological sciences; Birds; Migratory birds; Biogeography; Habitats; Field inventory and monitoring; Ornithology; Terrestrial ecosystems; Animals/vertebrates; Alaska; Animal and plant census; Spatial distribution; Cranes and allies; Ducks/geese/swans; Eagle/falcons/hawks and allies; Grebes; Herons/egrets and allies; Loons; Perching Birds; Sandpipers; Waders/gulls/auks and allies; Biodiversity; Resident birds; Environmental conditions; Detection distance; Bird behavior; Alaska Peninsula; Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson; Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge; Admiralty Island; Copper River Census Area; East Fork Skagway River; Fairbanks North Star Borough; Fort Greely; Koyukuk River; Mitkof Island; Natlaratlen River; North Slope Borough; Taku Glacier; Mount Fairplay; Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge; Andreafsky Wilderness; Chugach National Forest; Chugach State Park; Copper River Delta Fish and Wildlife Management Area; Denali National Park and Preserve; Arctic; Fairbanks; Taku; North Star; Skagway River; glacier; north slope; Skagway
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5066/p9sco7an; https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/662a8dd1d34ea70bd5f0acf0

Boreal Partners in Flight developed the Alaska Landbird Monitoring Survey (ALMS) primarily to monitor breeding populations of landbirds in the vast off-road areas of Alaska in conjunction with data collected from the roadside North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS). ALMS is a collaborative program in which agencies and other entities conduct standardized surveys of breeding birds and their habitats on the lands they manage and then provide the data to the U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Science Center for analysis and archiving. The ALMS monitoring program comprises a set of survey blocks that have been selected in a stratified-random design primarily across state and Federal natural resource lands in Alaska with the principal goal of assessing regional and statewide population trends of birds during the breeding season (Handel and Sauer 2017). Each block has a mini-grid of 15−25 points that are typically surveyed biennially, with half of the blocks surveyed in alternating years. This sampling frame has been ...