Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

Long-term Managed Forest Soil Monitoring for Carbon and Nutrients: Site characteristics

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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

    Ongoing forest soil monitoring is essential for understanding the impact of human activities. With funding from the Northern States Research Cooperative, we established 18 plots in Vermont's managed forests. Most are located in federal, state and town forests, parks and management areas. The initial primary focus was on soil carbon, which serves as a major reservoir for carbon storage in forests. Initial soil sampling was done in 2008/2009, along with measurement of aboveground biomass. In 2012/2013 we resampled to determine earthworm numbers and species, and also performed a detailed land-use history of each site. In addition, four sites were resampled to assess the impact of partial harvesting on carbon in the forest floor. We hope that these plots will continue to provide a good baseline for future work.

People

  • Juliette Juillerat: Content Provider

  • Sandra Wilmot: Principal Investigator

  • Nancy Burt: Content Provider

  • Charlie Cogbill: Content Provider

  • Thomas Villars: Content Provider

  • Donald Ross: Principal Investigator

  • David Brynn: Content Provider

  • Caroline Alves: Content Provider

  • Meghan Knowles: Content Provider

  • Jeff Briggs: Content Provider

  • Lisa Thorton: Content Provider

  • Josef Görres: Content Provider

Organizations

  • Northeastern States Research Cooperative : funder
  • University of Vermont Plant and Soil Science: lead

Geographic Coverage

  • Coordinates

    Data Table

    • Title: Site characteristics
    • Start Date: 2008-05-10
    • Description: Site abbreviations, full name, forest community, elevation, aspect, and slope.

    • Purpose:

    • Condensed Title: 20240319140845_Site_characteristics.xlsx

    • Object Name: VMC.1158.3946

    • Data Type: mySQL
    • Citation: Long-term Managed Forest Soil Monitoring for Carbon and Nutrients: Site characteristics, 2008-05-10

    • Online Distribution: https://vmc.w3.uvm.edu/vmcdevel/data/archive/project/Soil_Carbon_Monitoring/dataset/site-characteristics

    Attribute List

      Attribute Name: Site_abbr_
      • Label: Abbreviation for site
      • Description: Three letter abbreviation used for each site
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: ordinal
      • String Format: D-M-YY
      • Number Type: -1
      Attribute Name: Site
      • Label: Site name
      • Description: Full site name
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: ordinal
      • String Format: D-M-YY
      • Number Type: -1
      Attribute Name: Forest_community
      • Label: Forest community
      • Description: Forest community as described by site cooperators
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: ordinal
      • String Format: D-M-YY
      • Number Type: -1
      Attribute Name: Elevaton
      • Label: Elevation at plot center
      • Description: Elevation at plot center obtained via GPS
      • Storage Type: int
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      • String Format: D-M-YY
      • Unit: meter
      • Number Type: -1
      Attribute Name: Average_aspect
      • Label: Aspect of plot
      • Description: Average aspect across the plot obtained via GIS
      • Storage Type: int
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      • String Format: D-M-YY
      • Unit: degrees
      • Number Type: -1
      Attribute Name: Average_slope
      • Label: Slope of plot
      • Description: Average slope across the plot obtained via GIS
      • Storage Type: decimal
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      • String Format: D-M-YY
      • Unit: degrees
      • Number Type: -1

    Methods

    • No methods recorded for this dataset

    Sampling Equipment

    • No sampling equipment recorded for this dataset

    Site Characteristics

    • No site characteristics recorded for this dataset