Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

Winter Injury Assessment of Red Spruce on Mt. Mansfield: Red Spruce Winter Injury Assessment Mansfield Plot Locations

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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

    To assess winter injury severity to red spruce (Picea rubens) trees after winter injury event in 2003

People

  • Gary Hawley: Principal Investigator

  • Donald DeHayes: Principal Investigator

  • Paul Schaberg: Principal Investigator

  • Brynne Lazarus: Principal Investigator

Keywords

  • locations, permanent plots, red spruce, winter,

Geographic Coverage

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    Data Table

    • Title: Red Spruce Winter Injury Assessment Mansfield Plot Locations
    • Start Date: 2003-05-01
    • End Date: 2003-06-01
    • Description: Plot locations for winter injury assessment

    • Purpose: Assess the extent and severity of damage from the winter of 2002

    • Condensed Title: Z0306_RedSpruceWinter2003_plot_locations

    • Object Name: VMC.306.270

    • Data Type: mySQL
    • Citation: DeHayes D., G. Hawley, B. Lazarus, and P. Schaberg. 2003. Red Spruce Winter Injury Assessment Mansfield Plot Locations. University of Vermont. FEMC. Can be found at: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/winter-injury-assessment-red-spruce-mt/dataset/red-spruce-winter-injury-assessment-mansfield

    • Online Distribution: https://vmc.w3.uvm.edu/vmcdevel/data/archive/project/winter-injury-assessment-red-spruce-mt/dataset/red-spruce-winter-injury-assessment-mansfield

    Attribute List

      Attribute Name: Aspect
      • Label: Aspect
      • Description: Aspect
      • Storage Type: int
      • Measurment Type: interval
      Attribute Name: Elevation (ft)
      • Label: Elevation (ft)
      Attribute Name: Lat
      • Label: Lat
      Attribute Name: Location
      • Label: Location
      Attribute Name: Long
      • Label: Long
      Attribute Name: N
      • Label: N
      Attribute Name: Plot Number
      • Label: Plot Number

    Methods

    • Current Methods
      • Unnamed Method
        • Method Description: The plantation contains 443 red spruce trees from 12 provenances, with seed sources extending from NC to Quebec.

      • Injury rating
        • Method Description: For all locations, injury was scored by two observers as a visual estimate of the proportion of current-year foliage discolored on a 0-10 scale, with a score of 1 representing 1%-10% injury, a score of 2 representing 11%-20% injury, etc.

      • Unnamed Method
        • Method Description: Winter injury data for individual trees were used to calculate site-based yearly means.

      • Weather data
        • Method Description: Daily and monthly weather data (minimum, maximum and departures in monthly/seasonal temperature, precipitation, snowfall, snow depth and associated measures) from 1980-2004 from the First Connecticut Lake weather station were obtained from the National Climatic Data Center.

      • Core collection and processing
        • Method Description: Xylem increasement cores were collected for trees in the Colebrook plantation and the 23 regional winter injury assessment plots on 88 trees. Cores were mounted and sanded and annual xylem increments were microscopically measured.

      • Unnamed Method
        • Method Description: Hydrogen ion, ammonium, and nitrate wet deposition data were obtained from the US Environmental Protection Agency National Atmospheric Deposition Program/National Trends Network.

      • Precipitation and volume
        • Started: 1980-01-01
        • Method Description: Precipitation volume and pH are recorded on an event basis.

      • Rain and snow collection
        • Method Description: Rainfall is intercepted by a funnel and passes through a length of tygon tubing until it reaches and is collected in a one gallon jug. Snow is collected and melted indoors to completely melt before pH is measured.


    • Past Methods (no longer in use)
      • Winter injury assessment
        • Started: 2003-06-01
          Ended: 2003-05-01
        • Method Description: Winter injury was assessed between April and June of 2003 on native red spruce at 27 locations in VT, NH, MA, and NY.

      • Winter injury assessment
        • Started: 2003-06-01
          Ended: 2003-05-01
        • Method Description: Winter injury was assessed between April and June of 2003 on native red spruce at 27 locations in VT, NH, MA, and NY.

    Sampling Equipment

    • No sampling equipment recorded for this dataset

    Site Characteristics

    • Site Description: 27 locations in VT, NH, MA, and NY. See data table for Vermont locations

    • Minimum Altitude: 1537 feet

    • Maximum Altitude: 3988 feet