Results from monitoring at

Barataria Preserve

Jean Lafitte National Historic Park and Preserve

March 2011Summarized and entered into Nature's Notebook by Jake Weltzin, and presented to the GWS travel scholars after our field trip on 3/13/2011.The field trip presentation is in a separate file.

www.usanpn.org

Start at www.usanpn.org, and log-in to Nature's Notebook. For simplicity, I entered the data into my own account.

I'd already set a site before we headed to the field, so I modified the site location to better reflect our monitoring location. (Note the elevation automatically generated, as are lat and longitude. I added optional site info on this page too…flat, wooded, etc.)

Here is the location of our site at Barataria, about 20 km south of New Orleans, LA, shown using our visualization tool

3160 observers at 4412 sites observing 5459 organisms

418731 records from 76304 observations 2/11

We are one site among several thousands sites across the nation.

On our data cover sheet, I estimated our effort, described our methods, and reported on snow for interpretation of remotely sensed imagery.

I used this on-line page to add 3 individuals of each of the 3 species we monitored in the field, and added information about each individual plant that can be used to better

understand it's phenological response

Here, I use our visualization tool to show the locations of all the registered red maple in the US (and I circle ours). I can also animate the phenology using the bar.

Here, for fun, I toggle on the climatological data, to show annual maximum temperature (from PRISM data) across the US…look at the broad tolerance of red maple.

Screenshot of the data entry page, for our red maple #1, and our data. This maple had leaves that had already emerged, and were almost fully expanded.

Screenshot of the data entry page for our cypress #1, and our data. This plant had fully expanded leaves (needles), and we couldn't tell whether it was still producing pollen.

(My guess is that it had already produced its pollen, but I don't know enough about this plant or patterns of pollen production for this species, so we marked "?")

An early screenshot of the data entry page for the 3rd dogwood, which unlike the first two, had leaves almost fully expanded. The default for a species on a specified date is

"?" (as in "didn't look"), so I'll finish clicking on the "N" column.

This figure shows data for the tiger salamander, which we did not see, and for the white-tailed deer (which was a juvenile). The other 28 animal species on our potential list were not observed; the negative data for them (i.e., "No") is important…we looked,

but did not see them. This information can be very useful for many reasons.

Screenshot of a portion of our data visualization page, for 3 of our plants. This tool allows us to see any data, for any year, and compare plants at a site or across sites.