2004 Egg Rock Vascular Plant Botanical Inventory

2004 Egg Rock Vascular Plant Botanical Inventory 

Frenchman Bay, Maine, United States.
EGG ROCK (CIR 59-301)
Egg Rock is a 5.1 ha island located at the mouth of Frenchman Bay about 3 km east of Mount Desert Island; it is 1 km long and 0.15 km wide at its widest point. Other islands in the vicinity include Turtle Island 2.5 km to the east, The Thrumcap 3 km to the west-northwest, and Ironbound Island 2 km to the north.

Inventory Conducted: 2004 growing season.

Maine Natural History Observatory
Lead Botanist: Glen Mittelhauser
Year of publication: 2005
Contact: info@mainenaturalhistory.org
Funding Sources: Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge

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Permissions and Data Use

These data are made publicly available to encourage transparency, long-term preservation, and reuse in ecological research, conservation planning, and education. These inventories represent baseline conditions at the time of survey and should be interpreted with appropriate consideration of survey year, methods, and observer effort. Users are welcome to download, analyze, and incorporate these data into derivative works, including independent analyses and publications. Any use of these data must acknowledge the original source by citing the website where the data are archived and giving credit for the historical data to Glen Mittelhauser, Maine Natural History Observatory. Users are encouraged, though not required, to notify Maine Natural History Observatory of substantial or interpretive uses of the dataset, particularly those leading to publication.

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File list and description of each file
(See report for more information)

1) File Name: EggRock2004_PlantList.csv

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Column Definitions

Name: scientificName 
Type: String
Description: The full scientific name, with authorship and date information if known.  All nomenclature follows that of Haines and 
Vining (1998, 2001).
Maps to term(s) in Darwin Core: scientificName (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/scientificName)

Name: family 
Type: String
Description: The full scientific name of the family in which the Taxon is classified.
Maps to term(s) in Darwin Core: family (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/family)

Name: statusInMaine
Type: String
Description: I = Considered introduced to Maine.  All designation of introduced taxa follows that of Haines and 
Vining (1998, 2001).

Name: occurrenceRemarks
Type: String
Description: Comments or notes about the Occurrence.
Maps to term(s) in Darwin Core: occurrenceRemarks (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/occurrenceRemarks)

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File type information

.csv files:
- linesTerminatedBy: \n
- fieldsTerminatedBy: ;

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Citation instructions

Author: Glen Mittelhauser, Maine Natural History Observatory
Title: 2004 Egg Rock Vascular Plant Botanical Inventory 
Year of publication: 2005
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Licensing: CC-BY