Computerized Bird and Mammal Inventory for the Lake Erie Coastal Zone

摘要

One of the major limiting factors in the analysis of environmental projects is the availability of faunal inventory data for the project area. Many times a plethora of faunal information already is available for a project area, but is widely dispersed in books, filing cabinets, field notebooks, and the expert minds of professional ecologists and research biologists. Advances in computer technology have made it possible for biologists to summarize data from these diffuse sources into a concise, easily accessible database, with the ability subsequently to analyze complex environmental problems for faunal concerns in minutes rather than hours, days, and weeks.