Acoustic Bat Survey - Terrestrial Species Stressor Monitoring [ds2825]

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Tags
TSM, Terrestrial Species Stressor Monitoring, drought, central valley, Great Valley, Mojave Desert, environment, California, biodiversity, bird, bat, reptile, amphibian, vegetatio, acoustic, acoustic survey, bat


Summary

In response to a drought State of Emergency declared by the Governor in January 2014 and subsequent executive orders, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) was charged to implement projects that respond to drought conditions through habitat restoration and other measures. To provide scientific information necessary to meet these conservation challenges, leadership at CDFW prioritized establishment of a statewide resource assessment program, one component of which would be to monitor wildlife populations and their vulnerability to drought stressors. The purpose of Terrestrial Species Stressor Monitoring (TSM) was to begin the monitoring process by collecting baseline survey data on a wide variety of common wildlife species throughout the Great Valley and Mojave Desert ecoregions. Data collected at some or all study sites include infrared camera trap images, ultrasonic acoustic recordings, audible acoustic recordings, visual encounter surveys for reptiles and amphibians, avian point counts, and vegetation surveys. The data will be used to estimate occupancy and abundance of wildlife species and to model associations with drought and other habitat conditions.

Description

Automated acoustic recorders were deployed at 331 sites across the Mojave Desert ecoregion and 263 sites across the Great Valley ecoregion between March and July of 2016 and 2017. At each survey location, an SM3-BAT bioacoustic recorder was deployed with both an SMM-A1 acoustic microphone and an SMM-U1 ultrasonic microphone (Wildlife Acoustics, Inc., Maynard, MA, USA, hereafter termed ARU). Automated recorders were cable locked to securely-placed T-posts 2 meters above the ground, and were located within 10 meters of the site center at a relatively open spot not occupied by thick vegetation. The ARUs were programmed to record three 5-minute sessions each morning during the survey period, with the first session at 30 minutes before sunrise, the second at sunrise, and the third at 30 minutes after sunrise. The ARUs were also programmed to alternate between 7.5-minute audible acoustic recordings and 22.5-minute triggered, full-spectrum ultrasonic recordings from 30 minutes before sunset until 0400 the following morning, at which time the ultrasonic recordings ceased; the 7.5-minute acoustic recordings continued every 30 minutes until the 5-minute dawn chorus recordings began at 30 minutes before sunrise. Deployments lasted for seven consecutive days, on average. Following the survey, Kaleidoscope Pro version 4.3.2 with the KPro classifier (Wildlife Acoustics, Inc., Maynard, MA, USA) was used to auto-classify file recordings to the species level for bats. Using the probabilistic output from the classifier, files were filtered to retain only those determined to have a misidentification probability less than 0.05. All of the remaining files were then manually reviewed (i.e., examination of diagnostics and spectrograms) to confirm or reject the auto-classified species identification. The automated and post-validated datasets were analyzed using five occupancy modeling frameworks, which differed in how they did or did not address false positive detections.

Credits

Use limitations

License: This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ). Using the citation standards recommended for BIOS datasets ( https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Data/BIOS/Citing-BIOS ) satisfies the attribution requirements of this license.

Disclaimer: The State makes no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or adequacy of these data and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in these data. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed, or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to these data.

Extent

West -122.262150 East -113.842257
North 40.217404 South 33.862025

Scale Range
Maximum (zoomed in) 1:5,000
Minimum (zoomed out) 1:150,000,000

ArcGIS Metadata

Topics and Keywords

Themes or categories of the resource biota, environment


* Content type Downloadable Data


Place keywords California, Great Valley, Mojave Desert

Theme keywords TSM, Terrestrial Species Stressor Monitoring, drought, central valley, Great Valley, Mojave Desert, environment, California, biodiversity, bird, bat, reptile, amphibian, vegetatio, acoustic, acoustic survey, bat

Citation

Title Acoustic Bat Survey - Terrestrial Species Stressor Monitoring [ds2825]
Publication date 2019-05-2300:00:00


Presentation formats * digital map


Citation Contacts

Responsible party
Individual's name Brett Funas
Organization's name California Department of Fish and Wildlife-WFD-WLB
Contact's position Wildlife Ecologist
Contact's role point of contact


Contact information
Phone
Voice (530) 227-3998

Address
Type
e-mail address Brett.Furnas@wildlife.ca.gov



Responsible party
Organization's name California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Contact's role originator


Contact information
Address
Type physical
Delivery point 1700 9th Street
City Sacramento
Administrative area California
Postal code 95811



Resource Details

Dataset languages * English(UNITED STATES)
Dataset character set utf8 - 8 bit UCS Transfer Format


Status completed
Spatial representation type * vector


* Processing environment Microsoft Windows 10 Version 10.0 (Build 19045) ; Esri ArcGIS 13.1.0.41833


ArcGIS item properties
* Name ds2825
* Location file://\\geodata.\\BIOSOnline\Refresh\TODOData\BIOSOnlineData.gdb
* Access protocol Local Area Network

Extents

Extent
Geographic extent
Bounding rectangle
Extent type Extent used for searching
* West longitude -122.262150
* East longitude -113.842257
* North latitude 40.217404
* South latitude 33.862025
* Extent contains the resource Yes

Extent in the item's coordinate system
* West longitude -192542.752400
* East longitude 524754.538300
* South latitude -445764.369500
* North latitude 244607.421600
* Extent contains the resource Yes

Resource Points of Contact

Point of contact
Individual's name Brett Funas
Organization's name California Department of Fish and Wildlife-WFD-WLB
Contact's position Wildlife Ecologist
Contact's role point of contact


Contact information
Phone
Voice (530) 227-3998

Address
Type
e-mail address Brett.Furnas@wildlife.ca.gov



Resource Maintenance

Resource maintenance
Update frequency not planned


Resource Constraints

Constraints
Limitations of use

License: This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ). Using the citation standards recommended for BIOS datasets ( https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Data/BIOS/Citing-BIOS ) satisfies the attribution requirements of this license.

Disclaimer: The State makes no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or adequacy of these data and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in these data. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed, or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to these data.


Spatial Reference

ArcGIS coordinate system
* Type Projected
* Geographic coordinate reference GCS_North_American_1983
* Projection NAD_1983_California_Teale_Albers
* Coordinate reference details
Projected coordinate system
Well-known identifier 3310
X origin -16909700
Y origin -8597000
XY scale 10000
Z origin -100000
Z scale 10000
M origin -100000
M scale 10000
XY tolerance 0.001
Z tolerance 0.001
M tolerance 0.001
High precision true
Latest well-known identifier 3310
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Reference system identifier
* Value 3310
* Codespace EPSG
* Version 6.8(9.2.0)


Spatial Data Properties

Vector
* Level of topology for this dataset geometry only


Geometric objects
Feature class name ds2825
* Object type composite
* Object count 0



ArcGIS Feature Class Properties
Feature class name ds2825
* Feature type Simple
* Geometry type Polygon
* Has topology FALSE
* Feature count 0
* Spatial index TRUE
* Linear referencing FALSE



Geoprocessing history

Process
Date 2023-11-2910:05:03
Tool location c:\program files\arcgis\pro\Resources\ArcToolbox\toolboxes\Conversion Tools.tbx\FeatureClassToFeatureClass
Command issued
Include in lineage when exporting metadata No


Process
Date 2023-11-2910:05:21
Tool location c:\program files\arcgis\pro\Resources\ArcToolbox\toolboxes\Data Management Tools.tbx\Project
Command issued
Include in lineage when exporting metadata No


Process
Date 2023-11-2910:05:46
Tool location c:\program files\arcgis\pro\Resources\ArcToolbox\toolboxes\Data Management Tools.tbx\Rename
Command issued
Include in lineage when exporting metadata No


Distribution

Distribution format
* Name File Geodatabase Feature Class


Transfer options
Online source
Location https://wildlife.ca.gov/Data/BIOS
Function performed information

Online source
Location https://filelib.wildlife.ca.gov/Public/BDB/GIS/BIOS/Public_Datasets/2800_2899/ds2825.zip
Function performed download

Fields

Details for object ds2825
* Type Feature Class
* Row count 0


Field OBJECTID
* Alias OBJECTID
* Data type OID
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
* Field description
Internal feature number.
* Description source
Esri
* Description of values
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.




Field Shape
* Alias Shape
* Data type Geometry
* Width 0
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
* Field description
Feature geometry.
* Description source
Esri
* Description of values
Coordinates defining the features.




Field SpeciesCode
* Alias SpeciesCode
* Data type String
* Width 255
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Shorthand code refering to a specific species


Field CName
* Alias CName
* Data type String
* Width 50
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Common name of species detected on autorecorder


Field SName
* Alias SName
* Data type String
* Width 50
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Scientific name of species detected on autorecorder


Field Period
* Alias Period
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* Width 8
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Nightly recording session during which detection was made


Field Night
* Alias Night
* Data type String
* Width 50
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Date recording was made


Field N_Files
* Alias N_Files
* Data type Double
* Width 8
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Number of individual sound clips with calls assigned to this particular species for a given site, night, and recording period


Field Manual
* Alias Manual
* Data type String
* Width 255
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Manual assessment of auto-detector species ID. C = confirm; R = reject; species code is given only when an alternate species is reliably identified.


Field Files
* Alias Files
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* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Number of individual sound clips associated with manual identification


Field Notes
* Alias Notes
* Data type String
* Width 255
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Notes about manual vetting


Field SiteID
* Alias SiteID
* Data type String
* Width 254
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Unique study site identifier


Field Ecoregion
* Alias Ecoregion
* Data type String
* Width 254
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
USDA Ecoregion


Field Deployment
* Alias Deployment
* Data type String
* Width 50
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Date of initial recorder deployment at this location


Field Lifeform
* Alias Lifeform
* Data type String
* Width 254
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Type of generalized habitat at this location


Field Shape_Length
* Alias Shape_Length
* Data type Double
* Width 8
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
* Field description
Length of feature in internal units.
* Description source
Esri
* Description of values
Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.




Field Shape_Area
* Alias Shape_Area
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* Precision 0
* Scale 0
* Field description
Area of feature in internal units squared.
* Description source
Esri
* Description of values
Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.






Metadata Details

* Metadata language English(UNITED STATES)


Scope of the data described by the metadata * dataset
Scope name * dataset


* Last update 2023-11-29


ArcGIS metadata properties
Metadata format ArcGIS1.0
Metadata style FGDC CSDGM Metadata
Standard or profile used to edit metadata FGDC


Created in ArcGIS for the item 2023-11-2910:05:14
Last modified in ArcGIS for the item 2023-11-2910:05:01


Automatic updates
Have been performed Yes
Last update 2023-11-2910:05:01


Metadata Contacts

Metadata contact
Individual's name Brett Funas
Organization's name California Department of Fish and Wildlife-WFD-WLB
Contact's position Wildlife Ecologist
Contact's role point of contact


Contact information
Phone
Voice (530) 227-3998

Address
Type
e-mail address Brett.Furnas@wildlife.ca.gov



Metadata Maintenance

Maintenance
Update frequency not planned


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