PARC invites comments and suggestions on the following book:

Inventory and Monitoring: Recommended Techniques for Reptiles and Amphibians, with application to the United States and Canada (CLICK LINK TO VIEW DRAFT OF BOOK)

Note that this is a DRAFT version and suggestions are welcome! Please send general comments and requests to review specific sections to PARCIM@gmail.com. The final version will include the photos and figures currently referenced within the text (CLICK ON LINK TO VIEW A LIST OF PHOTOS STILL NEEDED). If you have photographs that you would like to contribute, please identify the Figure # and Page # and send your photograph to us at PARCIM@gmail.com.

Citation: Graeter, Gabrielle J., Kurt A. Buhlmann, Lucas R. Wilkinson, and J. Whitfield Gibbons (Editors). 2008. Inventory and Monitoring: Recommended Techniques for Reptiles and Amphibians, with application to the United States and Canada. PARC Technical Report. Aiken, South Carolina.

For those unfamiliar with the project, "Inventory and Monitoring: Recommended Techniques for Reptiles and Amphibians" differs from other book projects proposed and in progress [(e.g., "Reptile Diversity" (University of California Press); "Amphibian Ecology and Conservation. A Handbook of Techniques" (Oxford University Press)] in the following ways:

The PARC Technical Report "Inventory and Monitoring":

1. Includes both Amphibians AND Reptiles
2. Has no copyright restrictions and will have no ISBN number
3. Has been subsidized by the US Forest Service; hence, the book can be sold at low cost and all proceeds returned directly to PARC
4. Is written for target audiences that include:
   Government agency land managers or biologists (e.g., U.S. Forest Service personnel)
   Environmental consultants Researchers, biologists, or land managers without herpetological background or training
5. Has a summary of each sampling technique that differentiates between use for inventory versus monitoring, outlines the utility and limitations of each, and provides a detailed list of equipment necessary for each technique
6. Will contain a reference matrix listing all U.S. and Canadian species by PARC region and will indicate suggested techniques for every species for two levels of inventory (short-term and comprehensive) and two levels of monitoring (presence/absence and population status). Each technique will be referenced with published citations or pers. comm. from contributors in the PARC community
7. Is limited to PARC regions of the United States and has applicability to Canada but is not international in scope
8. Will have color photography demonstrating specific techniques
9. Final guide will be web accessible through the PARC website (www.parcplace.org)

The following opportunities are available:

1. Opportunity to help complete and review the “Species x Techniques Table,” which has expert-recommended techniques for inventory and monitoring programs that are specific to species and life-stages (CLICK ON LINK TO HELP)
2. Option to contact the editors with general comments and/or to review a section of the book (CLICK ON LINK TO VIEW DRAFT OF BOOK). Send comments and requests to review to PARCIM@gmail.com.
3. Opportunity to contribute photos: Please identify the Figure # and Page # and send your photograph to us at PARCIM@gmail.com. (CLICK ON LINK TO VIEW A LIST OF PHOTOS STILL NEEDED).