Parks Canada - Organizations - Canadian Urban Data Catalogue (CUDC)

Catalogue Entry: Plant Health Index - Terra Nova

This measure aims at monitoring forest plant community structure in Terra Nova National Park, including taxa richness, and presence of exotic species.

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Catalogue Entry: Fish thermal stress - Terra Nova

Terra Nova National Park employs fixed station pressure/temperature loggers to continuously monitor stream water temperatures over the entire summer at designated stream study...

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Catalogue Entry: Intertidal Invasive Species - Terra Nova

Terra Nova National Park monitors crab populations for the presence of the invasive European Green Crab; the abundance of native Rock Crab is also monitored. Park personnel uses...

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Catalogue Entry: Pond Angling Stress - Terra Nova

The park monitors angling stress in several ponds (lakes) in Terra Nova with Fyke nets. Angling stress is assesed against calculated values of fish biomass and fish condition...

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Catalogue Entry: Intertidal Community Similarity - Terra Nova

Terra Nova National Park monitors intertidal invertebrate communities using a line transect and quadrat sampling method. The survey focusses on invertebrate community...

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Catalogue Entry: Balsam fir density - Terra Nova

This measure includes monitoring of browsing impacts of non-native mammals on populations of the balsam fir populations at 30 randomly selected plots. This measure records...

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Catalogue Entry: Wetland Plant Taxa Richness - Terra Nova

Terra Nova National Park monitors wetland plant richness at 30 randomly selected plots along a 80 meter transect.

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Catalogue Entry: Beavers - Active Lodges/Dams - Terra Nova

The park employs aerial surveys to map active beaver lodges/dams in Terra Nova. A selection of sites are ground-thruthed on foot or by canoe.

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Catalogue Entry: Coastal Greater Yellowlegs Abundance - Terra Nova

Terra Nova National Park conducts weekly shorebird surveys during August and early September in order to monitor the abundance of Greater Yellowlegs and other shorebird species.

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Catalogue Entry: Stream Invertebrate Taxa Richness - Terra Nova

Terra Nova National Park employs a kicknet sampling procedure to monitor the species richness and relative species abundance of stream invertebrates. Streams chosen for sampling...

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Catalogue Entry: Coastal Eelgrass Spatial Extent - Terra Nova

The park is developing a protocol to monitor the extent of eelgrass beds through remote sensing.

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Catalogue Entry: Wetland Plant Community Structure - Terra Nova

Plant community structure is measured at 16 sites within the park on a four-year schedule. A series of five 2x2 metre quadrats are completed at each site with percent cover of...

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Catalogue Entry: Water Quality for Aquatic Health - Terra Nova

The park monitors water quality of streams and ponds (lakes) on a triennial cycle, reporting on total organic carbon, acidity, phosphorus, nitrogen, dissolved oxygen, turbidity,...

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Catalogue Entry: Wetland Nutrient Status - Pitcher Plant Morphology - Terra Nova

The park correlates pitcher plant morpology with availability of atmospheric nitrogen, as the latter may affect pitcher-plant development.

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Catalogue Entry: Stream hydrology - Gros Morne

Stream hydrology strongly affects habitat quality for most stream-dwelling species, and is affected by both climate and land use. This measure, which is colocated with stream...

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Catalogue Entry: Snowbed meltout phenology - Gros Morne

Late snowbeds afford critical habitat for many species of Arctic and alpine plants in Gros Morne National Park. Temperature loggers are being anchored at ground level within the...

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Catalogue Entry: Browse Pressure - Terra Nova

Terra Nova National Park monitors non-native mammal browse pressure on forest plant communities on transects and plots.

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Catalogue Entry: Density of moose - Gros Morne

Introduced Moose, lacking natural predators in Gros Morne, are causing widespread damage in park forests. Park-wide Moose density will be monitored using aerial surveys and...

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Catalogue Entry: Salmonid counting fence - Gros Morne

Atlantic salmon are an ecologically and culturally important species in healthy aquatic systems of western Newfoundland. This measure determines the status and trend, over a 10...

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Catalogue Entry: Stream thermal regime - Gros Morne

Stream thermal regime has important consequences for aquatic organisms, and is sensitive to climate and land use. The Park is monitoring thermal regimes at 10 sites annually...

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