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Welcome to the USGS Status and Trends of Biological Resources Program
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Biological inventory and monitoring of DOI trust resources on Federal lands forms the core of status and trends science. This program integrates monitoring programs that track the abundance distribution, productivity, and health of the Nation's plants, animals, and ecosystems. It encompasses activities at the landscape, community, population, and genetic levels and develops inventory and monitoring techniques and statistical methods specifically applicable to DOI land and resource management needs.
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Goal: To measure and report on the status and trends of the Nation's biological resources.
Objectives:
- Provide an integrated monitoring approach that describes and tracks the abundance, distribution, productivity, and health of the Nation's plants, animals, and ecosystems;
- Develop inventory and monitoring techniques, protocols, sampling designs, and statistical methods specifically applicable to land and resource management and policy needs, with special emphasis on the needs of DOI and its bureaus:
- Produce reports that synthesize information on the status and trends of our Nation's flora, fauna, and ecosystems and are responsive to the needs of the scientific community, land and resource managers, policy makers, and the public.
Status: Measurement of the current abundance, distribution, productivity, and health of the Nation's plants, animals, and ecosystems.
Trends: Analysis and estimation of rates of change in population, community, habitat, and ecosystem attributes, and the development and testing of analytical methods and predictive models used for making such estimates.
USGS Status and Trends of Biological Resources Program Coordinator:
Paul Dresler
703.648.4114
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