Vegetation
 New Vegetation Team grapples with broader
objectives --Expanding the spatial scale: should we go with a systematic grid? --Will the
USFS’s Forest Health Monitoring Program meet Denali’s objectives? --Rock Creek
tree rings reveal the advance of the spruce forest since the Little Ice Age --The 1998
bumper spruce cone crop: what are the implications? --A little bit of inventory work goes
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Aquatic
Invertebrates and Stream Communities
 Denali stream classification completed
--Getting a handle on within year and between year variation --Exploring other aquatic
indicators --Learning more about Chironomids, the most common taxa --Joining the
international battle over approaches to stream biomonitoring: the “multimetric”
and “predictive” approaches compared.
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a tour of Denali Stream
Classifications |
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Small Mammal
Population Monitoring
Populations vary by an order of magnitude among years
--Grappling with the spatial scale issue --Vole population model proposed: are they just
like mosquitoes?
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General Monitoring
Program Development Issues
Framework for understanding long-term research and
monitoring programs proposed --Updating the monitoring program development process
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Integration and
Synthesis of Monitoring Data
Comparing the two methods of bird monitoring --Can we
come up with a “gas gage” or “instrument panel” for reporting results?
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Monitoring
Program Costs
How much does it really cost? --Can we afford it?
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Data Management
Uh-oh-databases should be designed BEFORE you collect any
data
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Scientific
Contributions
Our record improves --Rock Creek data contribute to Juday
et al. spruce treeline paper --Conn finishes dissertation on Denali stream classification
--Oakley, Debevec and Rexstad present paper on Denali at forestry monitoring conference in
Mexico --Rexstad and Debevec present vole work at Ecological Society of America meetings.
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