Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative(802) 656-0683femc@uvm.eduwww.uvm.edu/femc705 Spear StreetSouth BurlingtonVermont05403United States of AmericaThe State University of New York (SUNY) College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF)leadGlobal Change Fingerprints in Protected Montane Forests of Northeastern USThis is a low impact research project that involves a) vegetation surveys to characterize forest overstory structure (tree id, height and diameter) and understory composition (tree seedlings and herbaceous cover); b) measurements of long term stand microclimate using iButton data loggers and c) extracting tree cores to study how climate affects tree growth and mortality.Global Change Fingerprints in Protected Montane Forests of Northeastern USWasonJay W.DovciakMartinclimate changeelevationnorthern forestforest inventoryforest compositionClimate Summary of Mt. Mansfield Sampling Locations2013-05-152014-05-15Summaries of temperature at 3 elevations on Mt Mansfield over a 1 year periodCompare climate at sampling sitesZ0340_SiteClimateVMC.340.451mySQLMartin Dovciak. 2013. Climate Summary of Mt. Mansfield Sampling Locations . SUNY ESF. FEMC. Can be found at: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/global-change-northeastern-montane-forests/dataset/site-climate-montane-global-changehttps://vmc.w3.uvm.edu/vmcdevel/CI4/data/archive/project/global-change-northeastern-montane-forests/dataset/site-climate-montane-global-changemountainName of MountainName of mountain where samples were collectedtextsiteElevationElevation of plot siteintmeter100real01500av.da.temp.CAverage Daily TemperatureAverage daily temperature in degrees Celsius over whole study perioddecimalcelsius0.000000001realav.day.tmax.CAverage daily maximum temperatureAverage daily maximum temperature in Celsius over whole study perioddecimalcelsius0.000000001realav.day.tmin.CAverage Daily Minimum TemperatureAverage daily minimum temperature in Celsius over whole study perioddecimalcelsius0.000000001realGDD.CGrowing Degree Days Growing degree days of the site (base 4C, no max) over whole study perioddecimalcelsius0.0001real