Details and Metadata

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Methods

The methods followed in the creation of the dataset, including description of field, laboratory and processing steps, and quality control procedures

Past Methods (No longer in use)

  • Night-time road surveys
    Started: 1991-04-15
    Ended: 1995-07-01

    Night-time road surveys are done on rainy nights in early spring to identify all amphibians seen on roads and calling in the vicinity of roads. A constant speed of 10 mph is used to estimate abundance and location of breeding sites

Dataset Fields

Detailed documentation of the fields comprising the dataset, including the type of measurement, units where applicable, and any controlled vocabularies or code lists present in the data


Field Name Caption Description Additional Information
YearYear

The year in which the survey was conducted

Measurement type: DateTime
Date/Time Format: YYYY
SpeciesSpecies

Species detected during night-time road survey

Measurement type: Nominal
# per NTRSNumber per night-time road survey

The number of each species detected during a night-time road survey

Measurement type: Interval
Units:
Precision: 0.1

Sampling Equipment

Equipment and software used to collect data, including how that equipment was used.

No sampling equipment recorded for this dataset

Site Characteristics

The spatial extent of the dataset site coverage, and descriptions of the spatial extent and context for the data collection

  • Site Description

    Roads in Underhill Center, Vermont

    Minimum Altitude: 1000 feet

    Maximum Altitude: 2000 feet