2015 Spectacle Island Vascular Plant Botanical Inventory

2015 Spectacle Island Vascular Plant Botanical Inventory Washington County, Eastport, Maine, United States.Spectacle Island (CIR 79-132)in Cobscook Bay, north of Lubec, Maine. Inventory Conducted: AUGUST 19, 2015; September 18, 2015 Maine Natural History ObservatoryLead Botanist: Glen MittelhauserContact: [e-mail] Sources: Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge -----------------------------Permissions and Data Use These data are made publicly available to encourage transparency, long-term preservation, and reuse in ecological research, conservation planning, and education. These inventories represent baseline conditions at the time of survey and should be interpreted with appropriate consideration of survey year, methods, and observer effort. Users are welcome to download, analyze, and incorporate these data into derivative works, including independent analyses and publications. Any use of these data must acknowledge the original source by citing the website where the data are archived and giving credit for the historical data to Glen Mittelhauser, Maine Natural History Observatory. Users are encouraged, though not required, to notify Maine Natural History Observatory of substantial or interpretive uses of the dataset, particularly those leading to publication. -----------------------------File list and description of each file 1) Core fileFile Name: SpectacleIsland2015_EventCore_GridCells.csv Description: Using GIS software, we built a 30x30 m grid across the island and into the intertidal zone. The grid was oriented following true compass bearings, with the UTM coordinates (NAD83, Zone 19). This file contains coordinates only for the grid cells that contained vascular plants. GRID CELLS2) Extension of Core fileFile Name: SpectacleIsland2015_Occurrences_GridCells.csv Connects to: SpectacleIsland2015_EventCore_GridCells.csv linked using the gridCell column. Description: In the field, we referred to the GPS unit to determine the bounds of each grid cell. On each trip to the island, we made a list of vascular plants present within each grid cell and estimated the categorical abundance of each. Abundance categories were as follows: common = species with a wide distribution in the grid cell, occurring in large numbers; occasional = species with a scattered distribution throughout the grid cell; uncommon = species not widely distributed and not often encountered in the grid cell; and rare = species usually restricted to small areas, specialized habitats, or consisting of 1 or 2 very small "populations" in the grid cell. -----------------------------Column Definitions Name: gridCell Type: IntegerDescription: Identifier for the 30x30 m grid cells.Maps to term(s) in Darwin Core: eventID (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/eventID) Name: verbatimCoordinateSystem Type: StringDescription: The coordinate format for the location.Maps to term(s) in Darwin Core: verbatimCoordinateSystem (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimCoordinateSystem) Name: UTMx(Easting) Type: DoubleDescription: UTM X coordinate.Maps to term(s) in Darwin Core: Name: UTMy(Northing) Type: DoubleDescription: UTM Y coordinate.Maps to term(s) in Darwin Core: Name: geodeticDatum Type: StringDescription: The geodetic datum upon which the geographic coordinates given are based.Maps to term(s) in Darwin Core: geodeticDatum (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/geodeticDatum) Name: UTMZone Type: StringDescription: Maps to term(s) in Darwin Core: Name: year Type: IntegerDescription: The four-digit year in which the survey occurred.Maps to term(s) in Darwin Core: year (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/year) Name: samplingProtocol Type: StringDescription: The names of, references to, or descriptions of the methods or protocols of event.Maps to term(s) in Darwin Core: samplingProtocol (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/samplingProtocol) Name: island Type: StringDescription: The name of the island on which the location occurs.Maps to term(s) in Darwin Core: island (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/island) Name: scientificName Type: StringDescription: The full scientific name, with authorship and date information if known. All nomenclature follows Haines (2011)Maps to term(s) in Darwin Core: scientificName (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/scientificName) Name: family Type: StringDescription: The full scientific name of the family in which the Taxon is classified.Maps to term(s) in Darwin Core: family (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/family) Name: vernacularNameType: StringDescription: A common or vernacular name.Maps to term(s) in Darwin Core: vernacularName (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/vernacularName) Name: statusInMaineType: StringDescription: Native = Considered native to Maine; Exotic = considered non-native to Maine.Maps to term(s) in Darwin Core: Name: measurementTypeType: StringDescription: The nature of the measurement, fact, characteristic, or assertion.Maps to term(s) in Darwin Core: measurementType (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/measurementType) Name: measurementValueAbundanceType: StringDescription: C = common = species with a wide distribution in the grid cell, occurring in large numbers. O = occasional = species with a scattered distribution throughout the grid cell U = uncommon = species not widely distributed and not often encountered in the grid cell. R = rare = species usually restricted to small areas, specialized habitats, or consisting of 1 or 2 very small "populations" in the grid cell. Maps to term(s) in Darwin Core: measurementValue (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/measurementValue) -----------------------------File type information .csv files:- linesTerminatedBy: \n- fieldsTerminatedBy: ; -----------------------------Coordinate System UTM coordinates (NAD83, Zone 19) -----------------------------Citation instructions Author: Glen Mittelhauser, Maine Natural History ObservatoryTitle: 2015 Spectacle Island Vascular Plant Botanical Inventory Year of publication: 2016----------------------------- Licensing: CC-BY