 PLANT
MONITORING
Plant or vegetation monitoring is the acquisition of information to assess
the health, status, and trends of plant populations and communities and their
broader ecological systems over time, for the purpose of assessing and directing
management activities. Monitoring is essential to adaptive management, which
is using the information gained to guide and adapt future management actions.
On Santa Catalina Island, vegetation monitoring takes a number of different
forms. It ranges from quantitative (taking counts and measurements) to qualitative
(visual assessment, often using categories to classify health, etc.). It may
involve a small population of a particular plant, such as the federally endangered
Catalina mahogany, or the whole plant community. And it also may be relatively
simple and visual, such as repeat photomonitoring or historical photo relocation.
Where possible it includes an experimental element, whereby we can try to isolate
an effect such as grazing in order to learn more about it.
Our current projects are listed below. Please click on the link for more information.
You can also contact our Vegetation Specialist at Vegetation@CatalinaConservancy.org
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