List <strong>of</strong> Tables Table 1. Summary <strong>of</strong> vascular plant <strong>and</strong> vertebrate inventories at <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District, 1999–2005. ..................................................................................................xv Table 1.1. Museums that were queried in 1998 for vertebrate voucher specimens with “Arizona” <strong>and</strong> “<strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park” <strong>and</strong> “National Monument” in the collection location.........................3 Table 2.1. Average monthly climate data for Manning Camp (high elevation), <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District, 1994–2004........................................................................................9 Table 2.2. Average monthly climate data for the University <strong>of</strong> Arizona (low elevation; the closest climate monitoring station to <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District) 1894–2004...............9 Table 4.1. Characteristics <strong>of</strong> three major active survey methods used during surveys for herpet<strong>of</strong>auna, <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District, 2001 <strong>and</strong> 2002..........................................27 Table 4.2. Herpet<strong>of</strong>aunal survey effort by year, <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District, 2001 <strong>and</strong> 2002....................................................................................................................................29 Table 4.3. Environmental factors considered when modeling variation in relative abundance <strong>of</strong> species <strong>and</strong> species groups <strong>and</strong> species richness <strong>of</strong> herpet<strong>of</strong>auna, using stepwise multiple linear regression, <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District, 2001 <strong>and</strong> 2002. .....................30 Table 4.4. Number <strong>of</strong> animals <strong>and</strong> species detected per hour during herpet<strong>of</strong>aunal surveys by year <strong>and</strong> survey method, <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District, 2001 <strong>and</strong> 2002. ...............33 Table 4.5. Relative abundance (mean + SE; no./ha/hr) <strong>of</strong> herpet<strong>of</strong>auna detected during intensive surveys in spring (9 April – 24 May) along focal point-transects by elevation strata, <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District, 2001. ...................................................................................34 Table 4.6. Relative abundance (mean + SE; no./ha/hr) <strong>of</strong> herpet<strong>of</strong>auna detected during intensive surveys along r<strong>and</strong>om transects (n = 7) surveyed in both spring (9 April – 8 May) <strong>and</strong> summer (18 – 31 July), <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District, 2001...........................................35 Table 4.7. Environmental factors that explained relative abundance (no./ha/hr) <strong>of</strong> species (with >15 observations), species groups, <strong>and</strong> species richness <strong>of</strong> lizards <strong>and</strong> snakes detected during intensive surveys, <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District, spring 2001. ................36 Table 4.8. Relative abundance (mean + SE; no./10 hrs) <strong>of</strong> herpet<strong>of</strong>auna detected during extensive surveys (n = 85), by elevation strata, <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District, 2001 <strong>and</strong> 2002. .................................................................................................................................37 Table 4.9. Relative abundance (no./hr) <strong>of</strong> herpet<strong>of</strong>auna detected during road surveys, <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District, 2001 <strong>and</strong> 2002.......................................................................38 Table 5.1. Characteristics <strong>of</strong> the three major VCP survey types for birds, <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District, 2001 <strong>and</strong> 2002. ...........................................................................................46 Table 5.2. Summary <strong>of</strong> bird survey effort, <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District, 2001– 2003. ........................................................................................................................................49 Table 5.3. Bird measures by community type <strong>and</strong> compared using Tukey-Kramer multiple pairwise procedure, <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District, 2001 <strong>and</strong> 2002. .....................54 Table 5.4. Relative abundance (mean + SD) by community type for birds recorded during repeat-visit VCP surveys, <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District, 2001 <strong>and</strong> 2002. ................55 Table 5.5. Mean relative abundance <strong>of</strong> birds from reconnaissance VCP surveys by strata <strong>and</strong> transect, <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District, 2002..........................................................58 Table 5.6. Relative abundance (mean + SE) <strong>of</strong> birds from line-transect surveys, <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District, 2002 <strong>and</strong> 2003................................................................................60 Table 5.7. Mean relative abundance <strong>of</strong> birds from nocturnal surveys by elevation strata <strong>and</strong> transect, <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District, 2001 <strong>and</strong> 2002..........................................61 vi
Table 5.8. Number <strong>of</strong> breeding behavior observations for birds from all survey types, <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District, 2001 <strong>and</strong> 2002. ....................................................................61 Table 6.1. Summary <strong>of</strong> small-mammal trapping effort, <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District, 2001 <strong>and</strong> 2002. ........................................................................................................................72 Table 6.2. Summary <strong>of</strong> infrared-triggered camera effort, <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District, 1999–2005. ................................................................................................................77 Table 6.3. Relative abundance <strong>of</strong> small mammals by strata <strong>and</strong> site type (R = r<strong>and</strong>om [focal-point transects]; NR = non-r<strong>and</strong>om), <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District, 2001 <strong>and</strong> 2002. ........................................................................................................................................79 Table 6.4. Results <strong>of</strong> netting for bats, by elevation strata, site, <strong>and</strong> visit, <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District, 2001 <strong>and</strong> 2002. ...........................................................................................80 Table 6.5. Number <strong>of</strong> photographs <strong>of</strong> mammals from infrared-triggered photography by elevation strata, <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District, 1999 – 2005..............................................81 vii
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