Transcript Results from GWS Barataria Preserve monitoring

Results from monitoring at
Barataria Preserve
Jean Lafitte National Historic Park and Preserve
March 2011
Summarized and entered into Nature's Notebook by Jake Weltzin, and presented to
the GWS travel scholars after our field trip on 3/13/2011.
The field trip presentation is in a separate file.
Start at www.usanpn.org, and log-in to
Nature's Notebook. For simplicity, I
entered the data into my own account.
www.usanpn.org
I'd already set a site before we headed to the field, so I modified the site location to
better reflect our monitoring location. (Note the elevation automatically generated, as
are lat and longitude. I added optional site info on this page too…flat, wooded, etc.)
Here is the location of our site at Barataria, about 20 km south of New Orleans, LA,
shown using our visualization tool
We are one site among several thousands sites across the nation.
3160 observers at 4412 sites observing 5459 organisms
418731 records from 76304 observations
2/11
On our data cover sheet, I estimated our effort, described our methods, and
reported on snow for interpretation of remotely sensed imagery.
I used this on-line page to add 3 individuals of each of the 3 species we monitored in
the field, and added information about each individual plant that can be used to better
understand it's phenological response
Here, I use our visualization tool to show the locations of all the registered red maple
in the US (and I circle ours). I can also animate the phenology using the bar.
Here, for fun, I toggle on the climatological data, to show annual maximum temperature
(from PRISM data) across the US…look at the broad tolerance of red maple.
Screenshot of the data entry page, for our red maple #1, and our data. This maple had
leaves that had already emerged, and were almost fully expanded.
Screenshot of the data entry page for our cypress #1, and our data. This plant had fully
expanded leaves (needles), and we couldn't tell whether it was still producing pollen.
(My guess is that it had already produced its pollen, but I don't know enough about this
plant or patterns of pollen production for this species, so we marked "?")
An early screenshot of the data entry page for the 3rd dogwood, which unlike the first
two, had leaves almost fully expanded. The default for a species on a specified date is
"?" (as in "didn't look"), so I'll finish clicking on the "N" column.
This figure shows data for the tiger salamander, which we did not see, and for the
white-tailed deer (which was a juvenile). The other 28 animal species on our potential
list were not observed; the negative data for them (i.e., "No") is important…we looked,
but did not see them. This information can be very useful for many reasons.
Screenshot of a portion of our data visualization page, for 3 of our plants. This tool
allows us to see any data, for any year, and compare plants at a site or across sites.