U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Redwood Sciences Laboratory - LaMNA Point Count

This is a dataset of occurrences of land birds provided by the USDA Forest Service Redwood Sciences Labaratory. It encompasses the point count of LaMNA -- the Landbird Monitoring Network of the Americas.

Dedicated as the Redwood Sciences Laboratory 1976, the Pacific Southwest Research Station is a recently renovated three-story laboratory that houses research hydrologists, geologists, wildlife and fisheries biologists, plant ecologists, biometricians, research technicians, and support personnel who are conducting watershed, wildlife, and fisheries research applicable to the Pacific Northwest from Alaska to California. The laboratory is located on the Preston Forest Research Site, a wooded, 3-acre site on the Humboldt State University campus in Arcata, California. It contains office and laboratory space, including a library, conference room, and data processing area.

• Resource Title: U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Redwood Sciences Laboratory - LaMNA Point Count (Data Dictionary).

  File Name: meta.xml

  Resource Description: This is an XML data dictionary for U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Redwood Sciences Laboratory - LaMNA Point Count.




• Resource Title: U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Redwood Sciences Laboratory - LaMNA Point Count (DWC).

  File Name: 864da4c2-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a.zip

  Resource Description: This is a Darwin Core Archive dataset of counts from the Landbird Monitoring Network of the Americas.

  The Darwin Core Archive is a zip file that contains three documents.

  • The occurrence data is stored in the occurrence.txt file.
  • The metadata that describes the columns of this document is called meta.xml. This document is also the data dictionary for this dataset.
  • The metadata that describes the dataset, including author and contact information for this dataset is called eml.xml.