public read Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

705 Spear StreetSouth BurlingtonVermont05403United States of America

(802) 656-0683femc@uvm.eduwww.uvm.edu/femcThe State University of New York (SUNY) College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF)leadTwo tree cores from 5-15 trees at the high, middle and low elevationsForest Ecosystem Monitoring CooperativeJay W.WasoncontentProviderMartinDovciakprincipalInvestigatorThis is a low impact research project that involves a) vegetation surveys to characterize forest overstory structure (tree id, height and diameter) and understory composition (tree seedlings and herbaceous cover); b) measurements of long term stand microclimate using iButton data loggers and c) extracting tree cores to study how climate affects tree growth and mortality.Tree Cores taken at Mt. Mansfield Sampling LocationsTwo tree cores from 5-15 trees at the high, middle and low elevationsVMC.340.454mySQL/femc/data/archive/project/global-change-northeastern-montane-forests/dataset/cores-montane-global-change2013-05-152013-08-31speciesTree Species Codes4 digit tree species code (first two letters of genus and first two of species)textPIRUITIS #18034, red spruce (Picea rubens)ABBAITIS #18032, balsam fir (Abies balsamea)mountainName of MountainName of mountain where samples were collectedtextsite_uniqueSite IDCombination of elevation and mountain first letters to make unique site identifying id. For example: Abraham 800m = “Ab08” and 1100 meters = “Ab11”textyearYearYeardatetimeYYYYBAIBasal Area IncrementBasal area incrementdecimalmeterreal010000sample.depthNumberTrees in AverageNumber of unique trees that went into yearly averageintmeterreal05