Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative(802) 656-0683femc@uvm.eduwww.uvm.edu/femc705 Spear StreetSouth BurlingtonVermont05403United States of AmericaThe State University of New York (SUNY) College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF)leadGlobal Change Fingerprints in Protected Montane Forests of Northeastern USThis 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.Global Change Fingerprints in Protected Montane Forests of Northeastern USWasonJay W.DovciakMartinclimate changeelevationnorthern forestforest inventoryforest compositionTree Cores taken at Mt. Mansfield Sampling Locations2013-05-152013-08-31Two tree cores from 5-15 trees at the high, middle and low elevationsDetermine how climate affects tree growth and mortalityZ0340_CoresVMC.340.454mySQLMartin Dovciak. 2013. Tree Cores taken at Mt. Mansfield Sampling Locations. SUNY ESF. FEMC. Can be found at: /femc/data/archive/project/global-change-northeastern-montane-forests/dataset/cores-montane-global-change/femc/data/archive/project/global-change-northeastern-montane-forests/dataset/cores-montane-global-changespeciesTree 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 incrementdecimalsquareMillimeter0.0000001real010000sample.depthNumberTrees in AverageNumber of unique trees that went into yearly averageintnumber10real05