Multiple species inventory and monitoring technical guide
Subtitle: version 1.0
By: by Patricia N. Manley ... [et al.].
Contributors: Manley, Patricia N.; United States. Forest Service.
Series: General technical report WO -- 73.
Publisher: United States Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Washington D.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Wildlife monitoring.; Ecosystem management -- Monitoring.; Research -- Methodology.
Description: Monitoring protocols are presented for: landbirds; raptors; small, medium and large mammals; bats; terrestrial amphibians and reptiles; vertebrates in aquatic ecosystems; plant species, and habitats.
Notes: "August 2006."

"The Multiple Species Inventory and Monitoring (MSIM) protocol is intended to serve as a consistent and efficient method for obtaining basic presence/absence data and associated habitat condition data for a large number of individual species at sites that represent a probalistic sample.  It is designed to be implemented in association with Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) grid points on NFS lands."--p.1-1.

Literature cited: p. A-1-21.

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