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Project: Vermont Forest Health Monitoring

Dataset: General Plot Characteristics

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Vermont Forest Health Monitoring

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Status

Completed

Data Availability

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Data License

General Plot Characteristics is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY-SA - Attribution, Share alike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://vmc.w3.uvm.edu/vmcdevel/data/archive/project/forest-health-monitoring/dataset/general-plot-characteristics/overview

Project Lead / Principal Investigator

James Duncan

Affiliation:: Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative, (FEMC)
Role:: Project Lead/Principal Investigator
Start date:: 2014-06-01
Contact Information:: E-mail: james.duncan@uvm.edu
Work phone: (802) 656-2975

Jennifer Pontius

Affiliation:: University of Vermont
Role:: Project Lead/Principal Investigator
Start date:: 2014-06-01
Contact Information:: E-mail: jennifer.pontius@uvm.edu
Work phone: (802) 656-3091

John Truong

Affiliation:: Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative, (FEMC)
Role:: Project Lead/Principal Investigator
Start date:: 2016-05-16
Contact Information:: E-mail: jtruong@uvm.edu
Work phone: 802-234-1438

Alexandra Kosiba

Affiliation:
Role:: Project Lead/Principal Investigator
Start date:: 2018-01-01
End date:: 2020-04-21
Contact Information:: E-mail: Alexandra.Kosiba@uvm.edu
Work phone: 802-656-7631

Sandra Wilmot

Affiliation:: Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources
Role:: Project Lead/Principal Investigator
Start date:: 1990-01-01
End date:: 2017-12-01
Contact Information:: E-mail: sandy.wilmot@gmail.com
Work phone: 8028994366

Dataset Overview

A general description of the Forest Health Monitoring Plots including dominant understory and overstory species, slope, aspect, approximate age of forest stand, % canopy coverage, tree size class diversity, and downed woody debris size diversity.

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Data Collection Status

Data collection for this dataset has been completed

Start date

2018-06-11

End date

2018-08-21

Contents

144 records with 12 fields

Data Availability

Available for download

Data License

Preferred Citation

Danielle Ward (2018) General Plot Characteristics . FEMC. Available online at: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/forest-health-monitoring/dataset/general-plot-characteristics

Update Frequency

Unknown

Maintenance Plan

Not provided

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Previous Versions

Version 1 - General Plot Characteristics (created 2018-08-21 by Stephen Rotella)

Preview

Plot	Subplot_	Description	Dominant_Overstory	Dominant_Understory	Slope_(degree)	Aspect_	Approx__Age_(years)	Canopy_Coverage_(%)	Tree_Size_Class_Diversity	Downed_Woody_Debris_Size_Diversity
VMC245	1	Canopy is not one level, glacial till	318	Beech, Hobblebush, Intermediate Wood Fern	12	12	100	85	Very Diverse	Very Diverse
VMC245	2	Canopy is not one level, glacial till	318, 531, 371	Intermediate Wood Fern	16	16	100	75	Very Diverse	Very Diverse
VMC245	3	Glacial Erratic	531, 318, 371, 375	Intermediate Wood Fern, Hobblebush	12	12	100	75	Diverse	Very Diverse
VMC245	4	Pillow and Cradling and snags present	318	Hobblebush	14	14	100	75	Diverse	Very Diverse
LEMP17	1	Open area w/ large canopy gaps	97	New York Fern, Moss, Cinnamon Fern	3	21	50-100	75	Diverse	Diverse

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