Abstract
 Habitat Restoration Monitoring & Assessment: A Personal Geodatabase Design Track: Ecology and Conservation Author(s): Ingrid Hogle, Jim Quinn, Joshua Viers Conservation organizations are increasingly looking to assess the effectiveness of their habitat restoration activities. Such analyses require an accessible record of land use and restoration activities over time. Too often, the important historical information and monitoring data needed are stored in obscure filing cabinets, reports, or the memories of land managers. GIS provides an excellent means by which land use, modification, and associated monitoring data can be easily entered, stored, visualized, and analyzed. By making data accessible, a GIS system can ensure that institutional memory is preserved and that habitat restoration actions can be evaluated over time. We custom designed an ArcGIS 9.1 personal geodatabase to house spatial and empirical records of 20 years of habitat restoration implementation, monitoring and research at a large (40,000 acre) preserve in California's Sacramento Valley. The resultant dataset was used to assess the effectiveness of various habitat restoration activities. Ingrid Hogle Information Center for the Environment, U.C. Davis University of California, Dept. Environmental Science & Policy One Shields Ave. Davis , CA 95616 US Phone: (510) 548-2461 E-mail: ibhogle@spartina.org Jim Quinn Information Center for the Environment University of California, Davis One Shields Ave. Davis , CA 95616 US Phone: 530-752-8027 E-mail: jfquinn@ucdavis.edu Joshua Viers Information Center for the Environment University of California One Shields Ave Davis , CA 95616 US Phone: 530-754-6051 E-mail: jhviers@ucdavis.edu |
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