Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

New York City Watershed Lands Forest Inventory: Overstory Tree Inventory

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Metadata Provider

  • 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

Abstract

    Forest inventory plots collected by NYCDEP contractors on NYC watershed lands. Data includes plot locations (shapefile) and access database with forest inventory variables. Data is summarized at the stand level.

People

  • Gennaro Falco: Principal Investigator

  • Ethan Pierce: Principal Investigator

  • Deborah Layton: Principal Investigator

  • Joy Damon: Content Provider

Keywords

  • catskills, forest inventory, new york, tree, tree growth,

Organizations

  • New York City Department of Environmental Protection NYC DEP: lead

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    Data Table

    • Title: Overstory Tree Inventory
    • Start Date: 2009-01-01
    • Description: Inventory of overstory trees within NYC's watershed lands on 10 BAF plots. Overstory trees are classified as trees greater than five inches in DBH (diameter at breast height). Periodically updated, data was collected in 2009. NYCDEP is adding additional inventory in 2018.

    • Purpose: The purpose of this dataset is to inventory overstory trees in NYCDEP forest stands.

    • Condensed Title:

    • Object Name: VMC.1280.2540

    • Data Type: mySQL
    • Citation: Falco, G. (Ongoing) Overstory Tree Inventory. NYCDEP.

    • Online Distribution: https://vmc.w3.uvm.edu/vmcdevel/data/archive/project/Forest_inventory_nyc_dep/dataset/overstory-tree-observation

    Attribute List

      Attribute Name: Species
      • Label: Species
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      • String Format: D-M-YY
      • Number Type: -1
      Attribute Name: DBH
      • Label: DBH
      • Description: DBH to the nearest 1"
      • Storage Type: int
      • Measurment Type: interval
      • String Format: D-M-YY
      • Unit: inch
      • Number Type: -1
      Attribute Name: Damage
      • Label: Damage
      • Storage Type: int
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      • String Format: D-M-YY
      • Unit: inch
      • Number Type: -1
      Attribute Name: Acc_Unac_Growing_stock
      • Label: Acceptable/Unacceptable Growing Stock
      • Storage Type: int
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      • String Format: D-M-YY
      • Unit: inch
      • Number Type: -1
      Attribute Name: M_Height
      • Label: Merchantable Height
      • Storage Type: decimal
      • Measurment Type: interval
      • String Format: D-M-YY
      • Unit: feet
      • Number Type: -1
      Attribute Name: live_dead
      • Label: Live/Dead
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      • String Format: D-M-YY
      • Unit: feet
      • Number Type: -1

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    Sampling Equipment

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    Site Characteristics

    • No site characteristics recorded for this dataset