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Vermont Long-Term Soil Monitoring Program: Understory Herbaceous Cover

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  • Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

    • 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

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    Long-term monitoring of forest soils is necessary to understand the effects of continued environmental change, including climate change, atmospheric deposition of metals, and recovery from acidic precipitation. A monitoring program was initiated in 2002 at five protected forest sites in Vermont, three in Mt. Mansfield State Forest and two in the Lye Brook Wilderness Area. Every 5 years at each site, ten soil pits are dug and sampled from subplots in a 50 × 50-m plot.

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  • Joshua Halman: dataset_eml_peoplecontentprovider

  • Carl Waite: dataset_eml_peoplecontentprovider

  • Sandra Wilmot: dataset_eml_peoplecontentprovider

  • Nancy Burt: dataset_eml_peoplecontentprovider

  • Jamie Shanley: dataset_eml_peoplecontentprovider

  • Deane Wang: dataset_eml_peoplecontentprovider

  • Sean Lawson: dataset_eml_peoplecontentprovider

  • Thomas Villars: dataset_eml_peopleprincipleinvestigator

  • Scott Bailey: dataset_eml_peopleprincipleinvestigator

  • Donald Ross: dataset_eml_peopleprincipleinvestigator

  • James Duncan: dataset_eml_peoplecontentprovider

  • Jennifer Wright: dataset_eml_peoplecontentprovider

  • Angelica Quintana: dataset_eml_peoplecontentprovider

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  • forest health, long-term monitoring, plant species, soils, species abundance, understory vegetation,

Organizations

  • United States Geological Survey (USGS) : partner
  • United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service: partner
  • Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative (FEMC) : partner
  • University of Vermont College of Agriculture and Life Sciences: partner
  • United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests: partner

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    • -73.059551667, 43.05681667
    • -72.79543333, 43.05681667
    • -72.79543333, 44.53525
    • -73.059551667, 44.53525
    • -73.059551667, 43.05681667

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  • dataset_eml_datatabletitle: Understory Herbaceous Cover
  • dataset_eml_datatablestartdate: 2012-06-01
  • dataset_eml_datatabledescription: In addition to collecting presence/absence of herbaceous species at each plot, beginning in 2012 abundance measure (percent cover). A 5m^2 PVC square was placed on the perimeter or each plot, then all plants whose stem originated in the square were recorded by species and percent cover.

  • dataset_eml_datatablepurpose: Measure herbaceous species abundance per plot.

  • dateset_eml_datatableshortname: Z0161_2466_QN7VWP

  • dataset_eml_datatablephysicalobjectname: VMC.161.2466

  • dataset_eml_datatabledatatype: mySQL
  • dataset_eml_datatablecitation: Natural Resources Conservation Service, Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative, University of Vermont, USDA Forest Service, Green Mountain National Forest and Northern Research Station, and US Geological Survey (2018) Understory Herbaceous Cover. FEMC. Available online at: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/long-term-soil-monitoring/dataset/understory-herbaceous-cover

  • dataset_eml_datatableonlinedistribution: https://vmc.w3.uvm.edu/vmcdevel/CI4/data/archive/project/long-term-soil-monitoring/dataset/understory-herbaceous-cover

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    • dataset_eml_attributelistmeasurementtype: nominal
    dataset_eml_attributelistname: fkPlotID
    • dataset_eml_attributelistlabel: Plot ID
    • dataset_eml_attributelistdescription: Plot ID
    • dataset_eml_attributeliststoragetype: int
    • dataset_eml_attributelistmeasurementtype: nominal
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    • dataset_eml_attributelistlabel: Site ID
    • dataset_eml_attributelistdescription: Site ID
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    dataset_eml_attributelistname: fldCommonName
    • dataset_eml_attributelistlabel: Common Name
    • dataset_eml_attributelistdescription: Common name for herbaceous species encountered.
    • dataset_eml_attributeliststoragetype: text
    • dataset_eml_attributelistmeasurementtype: nominal
    dataset_eml_attributelistname: fldITISCode
    • dataset_eml_attributelistlabel: ITIS Code
    • dataset_eml_attributelistdescription: Plant code based off of ITIS code from www.itis.gov
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    dataset_eml_attributelistname: fldPercentCover
    • dataset_eml_attributelistlabel: Percent Cover
    • dataset_eml_attributelistdescription: Herbaceous percentage cover. Refer to dataset description for area sampled.
    • dataset_eml_attributeliststoragetype: int
    • dataset_eml_attributelistmeasurementtype: interval
    • dataset_eml_attributelistprecision: 1
    • Unit: percent
    dataset_eml_attributelistname: fldYear
    • dataset_eml_attributelistlabel: Year
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    • dataset_eml_attributelistformatstring: YYYY

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