Inventories

Species Inventory

Through the Natural Resource Challenge, the Mediterranean Coast Network began an inventory of all vascular plants and vertebrate fauna, and identified and implemented additional studies to gather information on poorly documented or understood taxonomic groups or species.  In order to identify information gaps in baseline data, a review of all known data and data sources (i.e. museum collections, scientific literature, interview with experts, etc.) was made to get a clear understanding of what vascular plant and vertebrate fauna species is known to occur in the parks and whether 90 percent of these species have been documented through existing, verifiable data or targeted field investigations.  The results of the review were used to develop a species checklist and the identification of seventeen biological inventory projects designed to gather basic presence/absence information on all species and acquire additional distribution and abundance information for taxa of most concern to the network.

Biological Inventory Projects
Vascular Plants
Review and compile existing information for vascular plants
Identification, collection and processing of voucher plant specimens
Threatened, endangered and sensitive plant species surveys
Non-native invasive plant species surveys
Riparian understory shrub and herbaceous plant species surveys (not funded)

Mammals
Bat surveys
Small mammal surveys
Small mammal and endemic carnivore distribution and abundance (not funded)

Birds
Document bird species checklists
Rare, sensitive, and island endemic bird species inventory (not funded)
Breeding raptor inventory
Migratory bird inventory (not funded)

Reptiles and Amphibians
Survey for reptiles and amphibians

Fish
Review and compile existing information of all fish
Stream/lagoon surveys for abundance and distribution of native and non-native fishes
Survey intertidal and shallow subtidal for fishes
Survey deepwater for fishes (not funded)