Dataset: Transect Identifying Data - Specific

Methods

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

Past Methods (No longer in use)

• Transects
  Started: 2000-01-01
  Ended: 2004-12-31

  Four transects on Mount Mansfield's chin with 1.5X1.5m quadrats every 50 meters.
• Phototransect images
  Started: 2004-07-01
  Ended: 2004-07-30

  Phototransect images were standardized by using a 35mm camera, a stock 50 mm lens, a precise focal distance (5 meters), a constant aperature (16 or 22), and an in-photo reference scale (a yellow and black striped meter board). Camera to meter board compass bearings were recorded for each transect.
• Reference print
  Started: 2004-07-01
  Ended: 2004-07-30

  A second camera was used to capture an image of the entire photo point landscape- camera, tripod, meter board and all- generating a reference print for each site to be used in the field to ensure follow up photomonitoring images depict the same scene

Dataset Fields

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Sampling Equipment

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Site Characteristics

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• Site Description

  Twenty-four 5 meter phototransects and sixty-four 50 cm by 50 cm photoquadrats were subjectively sited in trampling-disturbed trailside sectors of the Mount Mansfield Natural Area. Selection criteria include site homogeneity, ease of access, and ability to accurately relocate sites for comparitive purposes. All transects and quadrats showed evidence of trampling induced vegitation and/or soil loss loss with disturbance levels ranging from light to extreme