Rocky Mountain Climate Protocol Climate monitoring in the Greater Yellowstone and Rocky Mountain inventory and monitoring networks, Version 1.0

The purpose of the National Park Service (NPS) Inventory & Monitoring (I&M) Program is to develop and provide scientifically credible information on the current status and long-term trends of the composition, structure, and function of park ecosystems, and to determine how well current management practices are sustaining those ecosystems. As part of the NPS's effort to improve park management through greater reliance on scientific knowledge, a primary role of the I&M Program is to collect, organize, and make available natural resource data and to contribute to the NPS institutional knowledge by transforming data into information through analysis, synthesis, and modeling of specific key vital signs. The I&M Program defines vital signs as a subset of physical, chemical, and biological elements and processes of park ecosystems that is selected to represent the overall health or condition of park resources, known or hypothesized effects of stressors, or elements that have important human values.

Author: National Park Service

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Oct 08, 2013

Number of Pages: 82 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1492917605

ISBN-13: 9781492917601