Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

Vermont Long-Term Soil Monitoring Program: Understory Herbaceous Cover

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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

    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.

People

  • Joshua Halman: Content Provider

  • Carl Waite: Content Provider

  • Sandra Wilmot: Content Provider

  • Nancy Burt: Content Provider

  • Jamie Shanley: Content Provider

  • Deane Wang: Content Provider

  • Sean Lawson: Content Provider

  • Thomas Villars: Principal Investigator

  • Scott Bailey: Principal Investigator

  • Donald Ross: Principal Investigator

  • James Duncan: Content Provider

  • Jennifer Wright: Content Provider

  • Angelica Quintana: Content Provider

Keywords

  • 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

Geographic Coverage

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

Data Table

  • Title: Understory Herbaceous Cover
  • Start Date: 2012-06-01
  • Description: 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.

  • Purpose: Measure herbaceous species abundance per plot.

  • Condensed Title: Z0161_2466_QN7VWP

  • Object Name: VMC.161.2466

  • Data Type: mySQL
  • Citation: 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

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

Attribute List

    Attribute Name: enuPurpose
    • Label: Purpose
    • Description: Purpose of visit
    • Storage Type: text
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: fkPlotID
    • Label: Plot ID
    • Description: Plot ID
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: fkSiteID
    • Label: Site ID
    • Description: Site ID
    • Storage Type: text
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: fldCommonName
    • Label: Common Name
    • Description: Common name for herbaceous species encountered.
    • Storage Type: text
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: fldITISCode
    • Label: ITIS Code
    • Description: Plant code based off of ITIS code from www.itis.gov
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: fldPercentCover
    • Label: Percent Cover
    • Description: Herbaceous percentage cover. Refer to dataset description for area sampled.
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: interval
    • Precision: 1
    • Unit: percent
    Attribute Name: fldYear
    • Label: Year
    • Description: Year
    • Storage Type: date
    • Measurment Type: datetime
    • String Format: YYYY

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  • No sampling equipment recorded for this dataset

Site Characteristics

  • No site characteristics recorded for this dataset