EcologicFauna_ATLAS

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Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: School of Natural Resources/Spatial Analysis Lab(comp.)
Publication_Date: 20000823
Publication_Time: 00000000
Title: EcologicFauna_ATLAS
Edition: 1
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: atlas
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Plant & Animal Species Atlas from VT Biodiversity Project
Issue_Identification: 1
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Burlington, VT
Publisher: School of Natural Resources/Spatial Analysis Lab
Online_Linkage: <http://www.snr.uvm.edu/www/pc/sal/index.html>
Online_Linkage:
<http://vcgi.vermont.gov/warehouse/?layer=EcologicFauna_ATLAS>
Online_Linkage:
<http://vcgi.vermont.gov/warehouse/?layer=EcologicFauna_ATLAS&mapit=yes>
Online_Linkage:
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Description:
Abstract:
This database contains town-level totals of documented species records for several plant and animal taxa including vascular plants, trees, bryophytes, ferns, fish, mammals, and reptiles & amphibians. Also contained are number of Black Bear kills by town for the years 1980-1996, and number of non-hunter Moose deaths by town for the years 1980-1997. A breeding bird atlas collected at finer resolution than town-level is included but was not summarized by town. Data were originally acquired from Vermont's Agency of Natural Resources (ANR), U.S. Forest Service, museum and herbarium collections, and other published or unpublished atlases.
Purpose: Component to the "Vermont Biodiversity Project" (VBP).
Supplemental_Information:
Included with the download of the EcologicFauna_ATLAS database are a number of INFO datafiles (Note; databases are included as arc export files .E00. Please remember to use the 'INFO' option when using the Arc/Info IMPORT command).
There is variable documentation on specific item names, definition of species, and the codesets used (in some instances) to reflect species type. The following paragraphs are the best description of what is contained within the INFO datafiles. Citations for further information are included where possible. For further questions here, contact the School of Natural Resources, Spatial Analysis Lab (802) 656-3324. >>>
B_AND_B.DAT - Contains town-occurrence records of vascular plants for use in the Vermont Biodiversity Project. Dataset fields (columns) include family, common family name, species name, common name, town, county, prepared-by, date issued, and voucher_sp. The datafile contains 6108 records representing 654 species and 227 towns. "B_and_B" is from the Vermont Bird and Botanical Club, which collected many of the specimens.
VT_BBIRD.ATLAS - Datafile contains occurrence records of breeding birds in sampling units surveyed in the period 1976-1981. Atlas sampling units, known as blocks, were delineated by subdividing a USGS 7.5' quadrangle grid into 6 rectangles. A 179-block subset of all possible rectangles was selected for priority sampling. Less-extensive sampling was conducted in additional atlas blocks. Dataset fields (columns) include standardized, alphanumeric species "element code" (Natural Heritage Program's ELCODE), numeric AOU code (American Ornithologist's Union), location code identifying the block (LOC), a unique New England block number (NEBLOCK) constructed from LOC and state FIPS codes, breeding criteria status code (STATCODE) recorded during atlas project fieldwork, and breeding status (STATUS) that summarizes the 17 STATCODEs into either possible (1), probable (2), or confirmed (3) breeding. Datafile contains 23,735 records representing 188 species and 508 blocks. Dataset corresponds to the published book; Laughlin, S. B. and D. P. Kibbe, eds.1985. The Atlas of Breeding Birds of Vermont., University Press of New England, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. 456 pages.
BRYOPHYTES.DAT - Datafile contains town-occurrence records of Bryophytes. Dataset fields (columns) include town name and species name. Datafile contains 2255 records representing 484 species and 143 towns.
FERNS.DAT - Datafile contains town-occurrence records of Ferns. Dataset fields (columns) include town name, species name, record type, and county name. Datafile contains 1977 records representing 86 species and 218 towns.
VTFIA.DAT - Datafile contains occurrence records of trees species at sample plots surveyed during the 1983 Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) project for Vermont. Plot numbers and species codes were taken from an ASCII text file containing record type 30 FIA data and converted to INFO datafile format (Arc/INFO, ESRI) by Spatial Analysis Lab personnel at the University of Vermont, Burlington. ataset fields (columns) include plot number (PLOT constructed from PLTNUM, STATE, & COUNTY in the original textfile), numberic species code, and town name. Datafile contains 24,677 records representing 60 species, 214 towns, and 625 sample plots. The sampling protocol and other details are documented in Hansen, M. H., T. Frieswyk, J. F. Glover, and J. F. Kelly. 1992. The Eastwide Users Manual. U. S. Forest Service General Technical Report NC-151. North Central Forest Experiment Station, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
FISH.DAT - Datafile contains fish species records from Biomonitoring Program data of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, Department of Environmental Conservation. Species records were collected at reference-level and moderately-impacted sites on wadeable streams during the period 1984-1997. Dataset fields (columns) include site ID, stream name, town name, latitude & longitude (DDMMSS), sample date (DD-Mon-YY), and species common name. Datafile contains 2941 records representing 62 species and 106 towns.
FURBEAR.DAT - Datafile contains furbearer tag records, submitted by trappers in accordance with state regulations, for the period 1980-1998. Dataset fields (columns) include card ID, species common name, tooth number, card number, town name, taker name, take code, Wildlife Mgt. Unit number, warden number, date taken, season, WSMU, sex, age, pregnancy code, nutrition status, and target species. Datafile contains 4549 records representing 3 species and 243 towns.
HERPS.DAT - Datafile contains town-occurrence records of reptiles and amphibians (through 1998). Dataset fields (columns) include .... Datafile contains 19,669 records representing 40 species and 250 towns.
VT_MAMML.DAT - Datafile contains museum citations of Vermont mammals. Dataset fields (columns) include museum reference number, genus, species, sex, county, specific location, elevation, town name, availability, SPEC._NATU day, month, year, collector, preparator, prep. number, and comments. Datafile contains 1935 records (1874 of which have town-level locations) representing 43 species and 55 towns.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 19680000
Beginning_Time: Unknown
Ending_Date: 20000000
Ending_Time: Unknown
Currentness_Reference: Publication Date
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Irregular
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -73.454162
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -71.465281
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 45.018361
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 42.722789
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Theme_Keyword: biota
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: species
Theme_Keyword: plants
Theme_Keyword: animals
Theme_Keyword: taxa
Theme_Keyword: biology
Theme_Keyword: biodiversity
Theme_Keyword: bear kills
Theme_Keyword: moose mortality
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: vermont
Access_Constraints:
Despite thorough efforts to ensure the accuracy of these data, the UVM School of Natural Resources and our data contributors make no representations of any kind, including but not limited to warranties of accuracy, completeness, or fitness for a particular use, nor are any such warranties to be implied with respect to the data.
Use_Constraints: N/A
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Ernest Buford
Contact_Organization: School of Natural Resources/Spatial Analysis Lab
Contact_Position: Research Staff
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address:
School of Natural Resources George D. Aiken Center, UVM
City: Burlington
State_or_Province: VT
Postal_Code: 05405
Country: U.S.
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (802) 656-3324
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (802) 656-8683
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: buford@corvus.snr.uvm.edu
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Browse_Graphic_File_Description: GIF
Browse_Graphic_File_Type: GIF
Data_Set_Credit:
Ernest Buford - School of Natural Resources/Spatial Analysis Lab, Middlebury College Department of Biology, Elizabeth Thompson - Vermont Office of The Nature Conservancy, Phil Girton - Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, Jim Andrews - Middlebury College. Scott Darling - Vermont Department of Fish & Wildlife. Cedric Alexander, Vermont Department of Fish & Wildlife.
SPECIFIC SOURCING - Herbarium records were taken from notebooks by Frank C. Seymour in 1968. Bryophytes data were taken from Cyrus MacQueen's unpublished compilation of herbarium citations, "The Bryophytes of Vermont" (1991). Ferns data were taken from David Barrington's unpublished draft "Atlas of Vermont Pteridophytes" (1988). Occurrence records of trees species were obtained at sample plots surveyed during the 1983 Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) project for Vermont. Fish species records were collected at reference-level and moderately-impacted sites on wadeable streams by Rich Langdon and Doug Facey during the period 1984-1997. Furbearer tag records data was submitted by trappers in accordance with state regulations. Data for the period 1980-1998 were acquired from Kim Royer at the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, Fish & Wildlife Department, Springfield Office. Town-level occurrence records of reptiles and amphibians (through 1998) were acquired from Jim Andrews (Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont). Museum citations of Vermont mammals data obtained from the Canegie Museum of Natural History were entered into a spreadsheet at the Department of Biology, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT. Black Bear Harvest Data was acquired from Scott Darling, Vermont Department of Fish & Wildlife at the Agency of Natural Resources. Moose Mortality Data was acquired from Cedric Alexander, Vermont Department of Fish & Wildlife.
Security_Information:
Security_Classification_System: N/A
Security_Classification: Unclassified
Security_Handling_Description: N/A
Native_Data_Set_Environment: Arc/Info
Data_Quality_Information:
Attribute_Accuracy:
Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
All values of -999999 in attribute fields are equivalent to N/A or NULL.
Logical_Consistency_Report:
Included with the EcologicFauna_ATLAS coverage in the download are a number of INFO data tables which reflect numerous details about species occurences in the EcologicFauna_ATLAS. All INFO datafiles (species atlases) have been summarized to show unique species-by-town occurrences (i.e. Total Number of Species Documented for Each Town).
BEARKILL ATTRIBUTES - Contained within the ATLAS coverage are Bear kill figures. These are records of Black Bear kills by Vermont town for the years 1980-1996. Data from Fish and Wildlife Department, VT Agency of Natural Resources, were acquired in the form of a spreadsheet via the Department of Biology, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT. Spatial Analysis Lab personnel at the University of Vermont, Burlington, converted the spreadsheet to INFO Datafile format (Arc/INFO, ESRI) and replaced town identifiers with town names taken from Arc/INFO geodataset TOWN. Dataset fields (columns) include county, town name, number of males harvested, and number of females harvested. Datafile contains one record for each of 227 towns for which harvests were recorded.
MOOSE MORTALITY ATTRIBUTE - Datafile contains records of non-hunter Moose mortality by Vermont town for the years 1980-1997. Data from Fish and Wildlife Department, VT Agency of Natural Resources, were acquired in the form of a spreadsheet via the Department of Biology, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT. Spatial Analysis Lab personnel at the University of Vermont, Burlington, converted the spreadsheet to INFO Datafile format (Arc/INFO, ESRI) and replaced town identifiers with town names taken from Arc/INFO geodataset TOWN. Dataset field (columns) is number harvested. Data includes one record for each of 182 towns for which harvests were recorded.
Completeness_Report:
This datalayer has attributes for all taxa except birds. This is because the breeding bird atlas use blocks instead of towns.
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Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: School of Natural Resources/Spatial Analysis Lab(comp.)
Publication_Date: 20000825
Publication_Time: 00000000
Title: EcologicFauna_ATLAS
Edition: 1.0
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: atlas
Series_Information:
Series_Name: EcologicFauna_ATLAS
Issue_Identification: 1.0
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Burlington, VT 05405
Publisher: School of Natural Resources/Spatial Analysis Lab
Online_Linkage: <http://www.snr.uvm.edu/sal_index.html>
Source_Scale_Denominator: N/A
Type_of_Source_Media: Database/Spreadsheet
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 19680000
Beginning_Time: Unknown
Ending_Date: 20000000
Ending_Time: Unknown
Source_Currentness_Reference: Publication Date
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: EcologicFauna_ATLAS
Source_Contribution: various... See "Dataset Credit' section.
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Integrated original (UVM/SAL) Dublin Core format metadata records into a single FGDC/NSDI metadata record. Made coverage and INFO datafiles available for distribution. - Daryl Benoit, VCGI. 25 AUG 2000.
Process_Date: 20000825
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Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
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Entity_Type_Definition: Closed 2-D representation
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Attribute:
Attribute_Label: TOWNNAME
Attribute_Definition: Name of Town
Attribute_Definition_Source: Vermont Common names
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: PLANT
Attribute_Definition:
Number of Species Recorded for Plant Taxa. Type (B), Width (4), Output (5), Decimal (-).
Attribute_Definition_Source: School of Natural Resources/Spatial Analysis Lab
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: BRYOP
Attribute_Definition:
Number of Species Recorded for Bryophyte Taxa. Type (B), Width (4), Output (5), Decimal (-).
Attribute_Definition_Source: School of Natural Resources/Spatial Analysis Lab
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: FERN
Attribute_Definition:
Number of Species Recorded for Fern Taxa. Type (B), Width (4), Output (5), Decimal (-).
Attribute_Definition_Source: School of Natural Resources/Spatial Analysis Lab
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: TREE
Attribute_Definition:
Number of Species Recorded for Tree Taxa. Type (B), Width (4), Output (5), Decimal (-).
Attribute_Definition_Source:
USDA Forest Service, 1983 Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Project
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: HERP
Attribute_Definition:
Number of Species Recorded for Reptile & Amphibian Taxa. Type (B), Width (4), Output (5), Decimal (-).
Attribute_Definition_Source:
The Vermont Reptile & Amphibian Scientific Advisory Group, Dept. of Biology/Middlebury College
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: MAMML
Attribute_Definition:
Number of Species Recorded for Mammal Taxa. Type (B), Width (4), Output (5), Decimal (-).
Attribute_Definition_Source: Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: FISH
Attribute_Definition:
Number of Species Recorded for Fish Taxa. Type (B), Width (4), Output (5), Decimal (-).
Attribute_Definition_Source:
Biomonitoring Program, VT Agency of Natural Resources/Dept. of Environmental Conservation
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: BEARK_F
Attribute_Definition:
Number of Female Black Bears Killed for 1980-1996. Type (I), Width (8), Output (8), Decimal (-).
Attribute_Definition_Source: VT Agency of Natural Resources/Dept. of Fish & Wildlife
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: BEARK_M
Attribute_Definition:
Number of Male Black Bears Killed for 1980-1996. Type (I), Width (8), Output (8), Decimal (-).
Attribute_Definition_Source: VT Agency of Natural Resources/Dept. of Fish & Wildlife
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: MOOSEMOR
Attribute_Definition:
Non-Hunter Moose Mortality (Total Number) for 1980-1997. Type (I), Width (8), Output (8), Decimal (-).
Attribute_Definition_Source: VT Agency of Natural Resources/Dept. of Fish & Wildlife
Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: VT Center for Geographic Information
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address
Address: 58 South Main Street, Suite 2
City: Waterbury
State_or_Province: VT
Postal_Code: 05676
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 802/882-3000
Contact_TDD/TTY_Telephone: None
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 802/882-3001
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: info@vcgi.org
Hours_of_Service: 9am - 5pm, M-F
Resource_Description: EcologicFauna_ATLAS
Distribution_Liability:
VCGI and the State of Vermont make no representations of any kind, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular use, nor are any such warranties to be implied with respect to the data.
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Offline_Option:
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Offline_Option:
Offline_Media: 3-1/2 inch floppy disk
Offline_Option:
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Offline_Option:
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No charge when downloading from the internet, and when no custom processing is required.
Ordering_Instructions:
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Address: 58 South Main Street, Suite 2
City: Waterbury
State_or_Province: VT
Postal_Code: 05676
Country: U.S.
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (802) 882-3000
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (802) 882-3001
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