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Climate Change Database Clearinghouse: Combined Biological
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
Organization: National Agricultural Pest Information System (NAPIS)
Contact: Debra Martin (VA State Survey Coordinator (804) 786-3515
Email: debra.martin@vdacs.virginia.gov
Web address: http://pest.ceris.purdue.edu/index.php
Database name: NAPIS pest tracker
Description: The National Agricultural Pest Information System (NAPIS) stores and manages pest survey data that is collected by CAPS and other PPQ survey programs. Detection surveys are one tool used to manage the introduction of exotic pests.
Organization: University of Virginia (UVA) – Blandy Experimental Farm
Contact: Manuel Lerdau
Email: mlerdau@virginia.edu
Web address: http://www.virginia.edu/blandy/
Database name: Avian and butterfly surveys, etc
Description: The University of Virginia's Blandy Experimental Farm (BEF) is a 700 acre field station located in the northeastern Shenandoah Valley near Winchester, VA. Within the one square mile area are the Orland E. White Arboretum (The State Arboretum of Virginia), and representative habitats of the region that combine to create a microcosm of biological diversity unsurpassed in the mid-Atlantic region. The theme for the research program is the ecology of agroecosystems (defined here as the patchwork mosaic of natural remnant habitats that exist within a larger agricultural context). Research that focuses on the biology and ecology of species, habitats, communities, and even whole ecosystems within this matrix is supported.
Potential datasets: MAPS (monitoring avian productivity and survivorship) monitored at Blandy since 2002 go to: http://people.virginia.edu/~dec5z/maps.html ; Butterfly surveys go to: http://www.virginia.edu/blandy/ClarkeCountyLandUseSurvey/ccmapping.htm |
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