PARC Inventory and Monitoring Guide

PARC is nearing completion on a comprehensive guide to inventory and monitoring of amphibians and reptiles in North America.

Inventory and Monitoring: Recommended Techniques for Reptiles and Amphibians, with application to the United States and Canada

Editors: Gabrielle J. Graeter, Kurt A. Buhlmann, Lucas R. Wilkinson, and J. Whitfield Gibbons

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":

• Includes both Amphibians AND Reptiles
• Has no copyright restrictions and will have no ISBN number
• Has been subsidized by the US Forest Service; hence, the book can be sold at low cost and all proceeds returned directly to PARC
• Is written for target audiences that include:

1. Government agency land managers or biologists (e.g., U.S. Forest Service personnel)
2. Environmental consultants
3. Researchers, biologists, or land managers without herpetological background or training

• 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
• 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
• Is limited to PARC regions of the United States and has applicability to Canada but is not international in scope
  Will have color photography demonstrating specific techniques 
• Final guide will be web accessible through the PARC website (www.parcplace.org)

Keep checking back for information on the release of this manual!