Our Work with the National Park Service
Biodiversity Inventories and Monitoring
Biodiversity inventories give us information about what plants, animals, and other species are found across ecosystems in National Parks, while monitoring helps us understand how these assemblages change over time.
Detecting and Tracking Target Species
Detecting and tracking rare, endangered, or species of particular interest gives us insights into their distribution and environmental associations, which can be important in order to protect and manage species and environments.
Surveying for Aquatic Invasive Species
Aquatic invasive Species (AIS) are a growing threat to the integrity of National Parks. Hundreds of AIS have now been identified, each of which can potentially compete with and do harm to native and endemic species, alter natural ecosystem function, and degrade pristine habitats.
Harmful species can threaten biodiversity in several ways, including direct impacts on other species, and altered environments due to the presence of harmful species. Quantifying these impacts can be challenging, but is an important part of understanding and mitigating these threats.