Birds - Central Sierra Hardwoods [ds35]

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biota, environment, land birds, point counts, wildlife habitat relationships, habitat relationship models, El Dorado County, Tuolumne County, Amador County, Calaveras County, Central Sierra Nevada, California


Summary

WHAT THE DATABASE WAS DESIGNED TO DO. Breeding landbird surveys were conducted at these sample locations for an inventory of bird communities present in these habitats in order to develop habitat relationship models and to validate habitat relationships models from the California Wildlife Habitat Relationship (CWHR) System. HOW THE DATABASE WAS DESIGNED TO BE USED. This data can be used by land managers, consultants, and land owners for research and monitoring.

Description

These data represents the results of point surveys for birds in west-slope Sierra Nevada forests. There is accompanying habitat data (see Central Sierra Hardwood Study - Habitat) for the survey plots. Please be aware that the coordinates of the points displayed in the text data display of this data set are California Teale-Albers NAD27 projection, but that the data point viewer displays these data points and the background layers in California Teale-Albers NAD83 projection.

TIME PERIOD COVERED.

The data was collected during the 2003 field season (May-July) by field crews working for California Department of Fish and Game.

GEOGRAPHIC EXTENT OF THE RECORDS.

Point count locations extend from El Dorado to Tuolumne counties in the central Sierra Nevada between 2000-6000 ft elevation.

NUMBER OF RECORDS.

There are 64 stands with four landbird point counts per stand.

BASE DATA STRUCTURE.

The file is a flat excel table which gives the number of landbird species found in each stand. Each stand is represented by two key fields called "Quad" and "Grid" which relate to habitat data from the same plots in another data table.

WHAT EACH RECORD REPRESENTS.

Each record in the table represents the number of point count locations, average number of individuals, and total number of individuals counted in each stand for each species detected during the counts. There was only one count done at each stand in 2003.

Credits

Use limitations

License: This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ). Using the citation standards recommended for BIOS datasets ( https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Data/BIOS/Citing-BIOS ) satisfies the attribution requirements of this license.

Disclaimer: The State makes no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or adequacy of these data and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in these data. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed, or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to these data.

Use of this dataset requires prior approval by the primary contact. Recognition that the data set was created and provided by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and that any questions regarding the data should be addressed to the contact person listed in the metadata.

Extent

West -120.800994 East -119.975973
North 39.006110 South 37.995926

Scale Range
Maximum (zoomed in) 1:5,000
Minimum (zoomed out) 1:150,000,000

ArcGIS Metadata

Topics and Keywords

Themes or categories of the resource biota, environment


* Content type Downloadable Data
Export to FGDC CSDGM XML format as Resource Description No

Place keywords El Dorado County, Tuolumne County, Amador County, Calaveras County, Central Sierra Nevada, California

Theme keywords point counts, habitat relationship models, wildlife habitat relationships, land birds

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Citation

Title Birds - Central Sierra Hardwoods [ds35]
Publication date 2004-05-2700:00:00


Presentation formats * digital map


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Citation Contacts

Responsible party
Individual's name Barry Garrison
Organization's name California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Resource Assessment Program
Contact's role originator


Responsible party
Individual's name Neil Clipperton
Organization's name California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Contact's position Statewide Coordinator - Bird Conservation
Contact's role point of contact


Contact information
Phone
Voice (916) 373-6620

Address
Type physical
City Sacramento
Administrative area CA
Country US
e-mail address Neil.Clipperton@wildlife.ca.gov

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Resource Details

Dataset languages * English(UNITED STATES)
Dataset character set utf8 - 8 bit UCS Transfer Format


Status completed
Spatial representation type * vector


Supplemental information
HOW DATA WERE COLLECTED IN THE FIELD. We randomly selected 64 historical vegetation plots which were spatially random and located between 2000-6000 feet elevation in the central Sierra Nevada between El Dorado and Tuolumne counties. These plots occur on private and public lands. The landbird survey effort we conducted consisted of four 100-m radius plots located within forest stands of varying homogeneity. Within each stand the first plot (center) was located at the historical vegetation plot location, and the other three bird survey plots were located 150 m away on three different compass axes 120 degrees apart. Each point count was ten minutes long each giving a total of 40 minutes of survey per stand. The data gathered from each plot include the identification of each bird species observed in the plot and the number of independent observations to individual bird so that abundance could be estimated. WHO DID THE INITIAL DATA COMPILATION. Bird data was mostly compiled and analyzed by Barry Garrison with the California Department of Fish and Game. BASIS FOR GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES. Historical vegetation information from historical plot locations were the source for baseline forest habitat conditions. In the early 1930's, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) developed a vegetation map for the forests, woodlands, and shrublands of California. The project was known as the vegetation type map (VTM) project, and all VTM data are archived at the University of California, Berkeley. These locations were put into a GIS and relocated on the ground for our habitat sampling and landbird surveys.
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Extents

Extent
Geographic extent
Bounding rectangle
Extent type Extent used for searching
* West longitude -120.800994
* East longitude -119.975973
* North latitude 39.006110
* South latitude 37.995926
* Extent contains the resource Yes

Extent
Description
ground condition
Temporal extent
Beginning date 2003-05-0100:00:00
Ending date 2003-07-3100:00:00

Extent in the item's coordinate system
* West longitude -69302.343138
* East longitude 2078.749473
* South latitude -1983.425287
* North latitude 110018.487388
* Extent contains the resource Yes

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Resource Points of Contact

Point of contact
Individual's name Neil Clipperton
Organization's name California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Contact's position Statewide Coordinator - Bird Conservation
Contact's role point of contact


Contact information
Phone
Voice (916) 373-6620

Address
Type physical
City Sacramento
Administrative area CA
Country US
e-mail address Neil.Clipperton@wildlife.ca.gov

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Resource Maintenance

Resource maintenance
Update frequency not planned


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Resource Constraints

Constraints
Limitations of use

License: This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ). Using the citation standards recommended for BIOS datasets ( https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Data/BIOS/Citing-BIOS ) satisfies the attribution requirements of this license.

Disclaimer: The State makes no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or adequacy of these data and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in these data. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed, or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to these data.

Use of this dataset requires prior approval by the primary contact. Recognition that the data set was created and provided by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and that any questions regarding the data should be addressed to the contact person listed in the metadata.


Security constraints
Classification restricted


Limitations of use
For use by California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) staff, as well as, all government users and California Natural Diversity Database (CNDDB) subscribers. Due to the sensitive status of the species in this data, CDFW policy restricts its access.
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Spatial Reference

ArcGIS coordinate system
* Type Projected
* Geographic coordinate reference GCS_North_American_1983
* Projection NAD_1983_California_Teale_Albers
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* Value 3310
* Codespace EPSG
* Version 6.8(9.2.0)


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Spatial Data Properties

Vector
* Level of topology for this dataset geometry only


Geometric objects
Feature class name ds35
* Object type point
* Object count 0

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ArcGIS Feature Class Properties
Feature class name ds35
* Feature type Simple
* Geometry type Point
* Has topology FALSE
* Feature count 0
* Spatial index TRUE
* Linear referencing FALSE

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Geoprocessing history

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Distribution

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Transfer options
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Online source
Location https://wildlife.ca.gov/Data/BIOS
Function performed information

Online source
Location https://filelib.wildlife.ca.gov/Public/BDB/GIS/BIOS/Public_Datasets/001_099/ds035.zip
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Fields

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Definition
Birds - Central Sierra Hardwoods [ds35]


Field OBJECTID
* Alias OBJECTID
* Data type OID
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
* Field description
Internal feature number.
* Description source
Esri
* Description of values
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.


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Field Shape
* Alias Shape
* Data type Geometry
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* Precision 0
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* Field description
Feature geometry.
* Description source
ESRI
* Description of values
Coordinates defining the features.


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Field ID
* Alias ID
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Unique GIS number to link a point with its data.
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Field QUAD_NUM
* Alias QUAD_NUM
* Data type Double
* Width 8
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Represents the quadrangle number of historic maps on which stand is located.
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Field QUAD_GRID
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* Data type String
* Width 12
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Represents the grid number (alpha-numeric) on historic maps on which stand is located.
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Field COMMONNAME
* Alias COMMONNAME
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* Width 26
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
AOU recognized common name for this bird species.
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Field SPECIES_ID
* Alias SPECIES_ID
* Data type String
* Width 12
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The four letter code for the species.
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Field NUMPOINTS
* Alias NUMPOINTS
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* Width 8
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Number of points (maximum = 4) the species was observed in each sample stand.
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Field AVENUMBIRD
* Alias AVENUMBIRD
* Data type Double
* Width 8
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* Scale 0
Field description
The average number of individual birds observed in sample stand at the four points.
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Field SUMNUMBIRD
* Alias SUMNUMBIRD
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* Width 8
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* Scale 0
Field description
The total number of individual birds observed in the sample stand from the four points.
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Field OWNERSHIP
* Alias OWNERSHIP
* Data type String
* Width 13
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Land ownership type at the plot site, either private, US Forest Service, or a mix of the two.
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Field FOREST
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* Data type String
* Width 11
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Name of the National Forest if the plot is within the boundaries of a National Forest.
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Field COMMENTS
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* Width 24
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Field description
Usually, location of plot relative to another ownership type.
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* Width 8
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Field description
General elevation at plot site.
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* Alias ELEV_INDEX
* Data type Double
* Width 8
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Field description
Code for the elevation of the plot in 1,000 foot increments.
List of values
Value 2
Description 2,000 to 2,999 feet elevation


Value 3
Description 3,000 to 3,999 feet elevation


Value 4
Description 4,000 to 4,999 feet elevation


Value 5
Description 5,000 to 5,999 feet elevation


Value 6
Description 6,000 to 6,100 feet elevation


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* Data type Double
* Width 8
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Metadata Details

* Metadata language English(UNITED STATES)
* Metadata character set utf8 - 8 bit UCS Transfer Format


Scope of the data described by the metadata * dataset
Scope name * dataset


* Last update 2021-06-08


ArcGIS metadata properties
Metadata format ArcGIS1.0
Standard or profile used to edit metadata FGDC


Created in ArcGIS for the item 2021-06-0810:10:42
Last modified in ArcGIS for the item 2021-06-0810:10:38


Automatic updates
Have been performed Yes
Last update 2021-06-0810:10:38


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Metadata Contacts

Metadata contact
Individual's name Neil Clipperton
Organization's name California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Contact's position Statewide Coordinator - Bird Conservation
Contact's role point of contact


Contact information
Phone
Voice (916) 373-6620

Address
Type physical
City Sacramento
Administrative area CA
Country US
e-mail address Neil.Clipperton@wildlife.ca.gov

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Maintenance
Update frequency not planned


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