• Address:
  705 Spear Street
  South Burlington, Vermont 05403
  United States of America
  
  Phone: (802) 391-4135
  Email: femc@uvm.edu
  Website: www.uvm.edu/femc

Yearly monitoring of the urban forest in Burlington, VT, using 200 permanent, randomly selected plots and the USDA Forest Service i-Tree Eco methodology. Data collected and analyzed by i-Tree Eco provide information on the relative abundance and importance of tree species, land use characteristics, net carbon sequestration, effects on energy use, carbon emissions, and other information useful for valuing and managing Burlington’s urban forest. Plots are regularly resurveyed to monitor for changes in condition and forest health.

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• Random plot location
  • dataset_eml_methodsStartDate: 2011-08-31
    
  • dataset_eml_methoddescription: 200 randomly-located 0.1 acre plots were established within Burlington
  dataset_eml_methodsSoftware: ArcGIS 10.0, i-Tree Eco

• Identify service learning plots
  • dataset_eml_methodsStartDate: 2011-08-31
    
  • dataset_eml_methoddescription: A subset of plots are measured by students in UVM's Natural History and Field Ecology course as a service learning project

• Setting reference objects
  • dataset_eml_methodsStartDate: 2011-08-31
    
  • dataset_eml_methoddescription: The plot center is rigorously identified using physical reference objects to allow surveyors to revisit these plots in the future and track changes over time.

• Identify and measure trees
  • dataset_eml_methodsStartDate: 2011-08-31
    
  • dataset_eml_methoddescription: Each tree in the plot is identified at least to genus and measured for height, diameter, crown height and width, percents dieback and missing, crown light exposure, and spatial relationship to nearby buildings.

• Assess land use and ground cover
  • dataset_eml_methodsStartDate: 2011-08-31
    
  • dataset_eml_methoddescription: Land use proportions and ground cover proportions on the plot are recorded.

• Process data
  • dataset_eml_methodsStartDate: 2011-08-31
    
  • dataset_eml_methoddescription: Data are submitted to the US Forest Service i-Tree Eco analysis service to generate city-wide estimates of the composition, condition and ecosystem services of the urban canopy in the city.

• Clinometer
• dataset_eml_methodsStartDate: 2011-08-31
  
• dataset_eml_samplingdescription: Suunto clinometer

• Compass
• dataset_eml_methodsStartDate: 2011-08-31
  
• dataset_eml_samplingdescription: Compass

• Diameter tape
• dataset_eml_methodsStartDate: 2011-08-31
  
• dataset_eml_samplingdescription: Diameter tape

• GPS unit
• dataset_eml_methodsStartDate: 2011-08-31
  
• dataset_eml_samplingdescription: Garmin Rino 530HCx GPS unit

• Plot establishment
• dataset_eml_methodsStartDate: 2011-08-31
  
• dataset_eml_samplingdescription: 200 randomly-located 0.1 acre plots were established within Burlington