Formerly the Vermont Monitoring Cooperative

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Project: Vermont Long-Term Soil Monitoring Program

Dataset: Tree Health Measurements

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Vermont Long-Term Soil Monitoring Program

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Tree Health Measurements 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/long-term-soil-monitoring/dataset/tree-health-measurements/metadata

Project Lead / Principal Investigator

Scott Bailey

Affiliation:: Northeastern Research Station, USDA Forest Service
Role:: Project Lead/Principal Investigator
Start date:: 1998-04-29
Contact Information:: E-mail: scott.bailey@usda.gov
Work phone: (603) 726-8902

Thomas Villars

Affiliation:: Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA
Role:: Project Lead/Principal Investigator
Start date:: 1998-04-29
Contact Information:: E-mail: Thomas.Villars@vt.usda.gov
Work phone: 802-369-3176

Donald Ross

Affiliation:: University of Vermont
Role:: Project Lead/Principal Investigator
Start date:: 1998-04-29
Contact Information:: E-mail: dross@uvm.edu
Work phone: (802) 656-0138

Details and Metadata

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Dataset Fields
Methods
Sampling Equipment
Site Characteristics

Methods

The methods followed in the creation of the dataset, including description of field, laboratory and processing steps, and quality control procedures

No methods recorded for this dataset

Dataset Fields

Detailed documentation of the fields comprising the dataset, including the type of measurement, units where applicable, and any controlled vocabularies or code lists present in the data

Field Name Caption Description Additional Information

dbh

DBH

Diameter at Breast Height. All trees were sampled on every site. The minimum DBH was 2 inches.

Measurement type: Interval
Unit: unavailable
Precision: 0.1

enuPurpose

Purpose

Sampling purpose

Measurement type: Nominal

fkSiteID

Site ID

Site ID

Measurement type: Nominal

fldSpecies

Species

Common name of tree species measured.

Measurement type: Nominal
Long term soil monitoring Plot Regen Data Tree Health Measurements
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Appears in data as	Meaning
Balsam fir	balsam fir (Abies balsamea) - View ITIS Record
Mountain ash	American mountain-ash (Sorbus americana) - View ITIS Record
Mountain paper birch	paper birch (Betula papyrifera) - View ITIS Record
American beech	American beech (Fagus grandifolia) - View ITIS Record
Striped maple	striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum) - View ITIS Record
Sugar maple	sugar maple (Acer saccharum) - View ITIS Record
Red maple	red maple (Acer rubrum) - View ITIS Record
Red spruce	red spruce (Picea rubens) - View ITIS Record
Yellow birch	yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis) - View ITIS Record
Unknown	(Radiocystis ) - View ITIS Record
Ash	ash (Fraxinus sp.) - View ITIS Record
Mountain maple	mountain maple (Acer spicatum) - View ITIS Record
White ash	white ash (Fraxinus americana) - View ITIS Record

fldYear

Year

Year

Measurement type: DateTime
Date/Time Format: YYYY

notes

notes

Measurement type: Nominal

pkTreeID

Tree ID

numerical ID given to each tree.

Measurement type: Nominal

status

Status

Status 1 = live tree, Status 2 = dead tree

Measurement type: Nominal

Sampling Equipment

Equipment and software used to collect data, including how that equipment was used.

No sampling equipment recorded for this dataset

Site Characteristics

The spatial extent of the dataset site coverage, and descriptions of the spatial extent and context for the data collection

No site characteristics recorded for this dataset