Pollinator Habitat Conservation Along Roadways, Volume 2: California (2023) / Chapter Skim
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9-1 Chapter 9 Surveys, Monitoring Strategies, and Habitat Assessments 9.1 Introduction Assessments of pollinator communities and metrics for roadside pollinator habitat can provide valuable information for departments of transportation (DOTs) looking to implement voluntary pollinator conservation goals.
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Chapter 9. Surveys, Monitoring Strategies, and Habitat Assessments 9-2 rather than measure abundance (Taron and Ries 2015)
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Chapter 9. Surveys, Monitoring Strategies, and Habitat Assessments 9-3 • If your target species is listed under the ESA, you may need to obtain a recovery permit if working in zones where the species may occur.
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Chapter 9. Surveys, Monitoring Strategies, and Habitat Assessments 9-4 delineated and sampled separately.
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Chapter 9. Surveys, Monitoring Strategies, and Habitat Assessments 9-5 • Insects visiting flowers should not be disturbed before an observation can be made.
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Chapter 9. Surveys, Monitoring Strategies, and Habitat Assessments 9-6 If multiple roadside sampling areas are surveyed, the differences observed in native bee abundance reflect differences in habitat quality among sites.
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Chapter 9. Surveys, Monitoring Strategies, and Habitat Assessments 9-7 To calculate species richness for each sampling period or each year, the total number of bee groups and butterfly groups observed is tallied.
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Chapter 9. Surveys, Monitoring Strategies, and Habitat Assessments 9-8 and will vary with elevation when planning the survey period.
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Chapter 9. Surveys, Monitoring Strategies, and Habitat Assessments 9-10 9.2.3 Bumble Bee Protocol Overview of Procedure What the procedure will measure: Bumble bee presence or absence, species diversity Sampling design: Transects within the project area Sampling time of year: Survey once or more within the window of the documented flight period of your target species (see species-specific details in Chapter 3)
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Chapter 9. Surveys, Monitoring Strategies, and Habitat Assessments 9-11 captured or photographed.
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Chapter 9. Surveys, Monitoring Strategies, and Habitat Assessments 9-12 Monitoring Protocol This protocol can be used to detect trends in known populations by using the following protocol multiple times per year for multiple years.
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Chapter 9. Surveys, Monitoring Strategies, and Habitat Assessments 9-13 Figure 9 -1.
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Chapter 9. Surveys, Monitoring Strategies, and Habitat Assessments 9-14 Figure 9 -2.
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Chapter 9. Surveys, Monitoring Strategies, and Habitat Assessments 9-15 Figure 9 -2.
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Chapter 9. Surveys, Monitoring Strategies, and Habitat Assessments 9-16 These habitat assessment guides are included as a separate document and can be found on the National Academies Press website (https://nap.nationalacademies.org/)
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Chapter 9. Surveys, Monitoring Strategies, and Habitat Assessments 9-17 An Integrated Approach to Establishing Native Plants and Pollinator Habitat (2017)
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Chapter 9. Surveys, Monitoring Strategies, and Habitat Assessments 9-18 Hamilton, Randy.
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