Monitoring - Managing Invasive Plants: Concepts, Principles, and Practices
Developed by the Center for Invasive Plant Management for the USFWS National Wildlife Refuge System, this online learning module defines monitoring, discusses the purpose and different types of monitoring, and introduces elements invasive plant monitoring plans.

Invasive Species Monitoring Resources (NPS)

Guidelines, protocols, assessment, references, and more.

Measuring and Monitoring Plant Populations (5.3 MB pdf)

Elzinga, Salzer, and Willoughby. 2001. BLM Technical Reference 1730-1. 492 pp. Order print copies from BLM Library or email BLM_NCS_PMDS@blm.gov. Also available from online and retail booksellers.

Monitoring: How Can I Monitor without Spending a Lot of Time and Money?

From USDA Forest Service A Weed Manager's Guide to Remote Sensing and GIS.

Monitoring Changes in Exotic Vegetation

By Robert D. Sutter, TNC. " An overview of the most important monitoring issues, modified to address the management of exotics."

Monitoring Non-Native Plant Populations

By Rew and Maxwell, Chapter 7 in CIPM Online Invasive Plant Management Textbook.

Natural Resources Monitoring Partnership (from NBII)

The Monitoring Protocol Library is a searchable database of monitoring protocols and resource assessment methodologies. The Monitoring "Locator" is an internet-based GIS application that allows users to identify what natural resource monitoring is being conducted within a particular area (e.g., State, county, Canadian Province, or other selected geographic area). Users of this system will have search tools to find out about ongoing and historic monitoring according to the scales, targets, and objectives that are of interest to them.

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