For sponsoring 'members', BERDS makes available a host of useful features and functionality including a comprehensive Site Monitoring System. This database system can be used
for ongoing group-based management of environmental monitoring programmes. Through this feature, members can create and manage monitoring sites (localities) and site visit reports,
catalog specimens and sightings and store related imagery.
BERDS members can leverage the ever-increasing amount of information available within the system to their own advantage.
BERDS Site Monitoring System allows better use of organisational resources,
ensures data accuracy, facilitates adherence to standards, allows seamless sharing of information and therefore encourages transparency. Plus this system maximises the use of BERDS spatial
capabilities, enriching data collection and management while reducing effort.
Since all members are using a 'standard' monitoring database system, direct data comparisons can be made, enabling better resource management and research locally at the individual project level as well as nationally at the scale of protected areas and biological corridors.
Recordable Parameters:
Sites (Localities):
- Description of Location
- General details of site/locality
- Land administration
- Coordinates
- Elevation
- Dimensions of plot or transect
- Slope, aspect and radius
- etc...
- Biophysical Characterisitics
- Terrain
- Underlying geology & soils
- Ecosystem type, land use and dynamics
- Aquatic characteristics
- Moisture regime
- Flooding regime
- Logging/Timber regime
- etc...
- Site Visit Reports (below)
- Images for Site/Locality
- Map Image
Site Visit Reports:
- General details of site visit
- Weather
- Human influence and perturbation
- Characteristics of all strata
- Canopy stratum characteristics
- Shrub stratum characteristics
- Ground stratum characteristics
- Aquatic characteristics
- Specimens found
- Images taken during Site Visit
- Map Image
Querying and Report Generation: This feature allows members to analyse
existing specimen data from the BERDS database to answer specific questions
related to species occurrence by location, by time interval and by lifestage,
[depending on data entered]. Output is available in text format as well as in bar and line graph format. The Site Monitoring System allows members to query their data to investigate the following types of questions:
- Geographic Distribution:
- What species occur in area X?
- What orders, families or genera have been found at Location X?
- How many specimens of Species Y have been found at Location X?
- Temporal Distribution & Migration:
- What species occur in area X at time Y?
- What time of year does species X occur in area Y?
- What are the seasonal movements of Species X?
- Is Species X increasing or decreasing over time at Location Y?
- What is the relative level of annual change in species occurrence at Locality X?
- Population Dynamics & Breeding :
- What species and at what life stages occur in area X at time Y?
- Is this a location where this population still breeds?
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Painted Tree Frog (Hyla picta) relative annual change in species occurence for Yrs 1995-2006 for UTM location
Red-eyed Tree Frog (Agalychnis callidryas) abundance for years 1997-2003 at Monitoring Site CD1 |
For more information, please contact at info ( at ) biodiversity.bz or download a brochure.
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