Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

Sentinel Stream Monitoring: Ranch Brook Macroinvertebrate Community Assessments

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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

    Monitoring the long-term effects of climate change on macroinvertebrate communities in pristine reference streams.

People

  • Steve Fiske: Principal Investigator

  • Aaron Moore: Principal Investigator

Keywords

  • community composition, indicators, macroinvertebrates, ranch brook, stream ecology, water quality,

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    Data Table

    • Title: Ranch Brook Macroinvertebrate Community Assessments
    • Start Date: 2000-09-14
    • Description: Macroinvertebrate Community Assessments are based primarily on eight metrics of the Macroinvertebrate community. These include metrics of abundance, species richness, and indexes of Sensitive to tolerant species ratios. Data come from Ranch Brook at a location about 50 m below the first bridge crossing in Mansfield state park (44.50361, -72.78194) and were extracted from https://anrweb.vt.gov/DEC/IWIS/.

    • Purpose: The effectiveness of a forest in providing clean water is assessed through the diversity of key indicator species of stream health. A stream indicator species in this context is a macroinvertebrate (insects, worms, or snails) whose presence, absence, or abundance reflects the current condition of the environment. Macroinvertebrates typically require high levels of dissolved oxygen and low turbidity in the water.

    • Condensed Title: Z1234_2475_9JQS4R

    • Object Name: VMC.342.2475

    • Data Type: mySQL
    • Citation: VTDEC-Watershed Management Division (2016) Ranch Brook Macroinvertebrate Community Assessments. Available online at: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/RanchBrookMacroinvertebrates/dataset/ranch-brook-macroinvertebrate-community-assessments

    • Online Distribution: https://vmc.w3.uvm.edu/vmcdevel/data/archive/project/sentinel-stream-monitoring/dataset/ranch-brook-macroinvertebrate-community-assessments

    Attribute List

      Attribute Name: B_I_
      • Label: B_I_
      • Storage Type: decimal
      Attribute Name: Community_Assessment
      • Label: Community_Assessment
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: Date
      • Label: Date
      • Storage Type: date
      • Measurment Type: datetime
      • String Format: M/D/YYYY
      Attribute Name: Density
      • Label: Density
      • Storage Type: int
      Attribute Name: EPT/EPT_+_Chiro
      • Label: EPT/EPT_+_Chiro
      • Storage Type: decimal
      Attribute Name: EPT_Richness
      • Label: EPT_Richness
      • Storage Type: decimal
      Attribute Name: Oligo_
      • Label: Oligo_
      • Storage Type: decimal
      Attribute Name: PMA-O
      • Label: PMA-O
      • Storage Type: decimal
      Attribute Name: PPCS-F
      • Label: PPCS-F
      • Storage Type: decimal
      Attribute Name: Richness
      • Label: Richness
      • Storage Type: decimal

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    • No sampling equipment recorded for this dataset

    Site Characteristics

    • No site characteristics recorded for this dataset