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 compositionOverstory Characteristics at Mt. Mansfield Sampling Locations2013-06-012013-08-30Characterization of overstory structure at sample sites including density, frequency and basal areaDetermine how climate affects population dynamics of plant species in high elevation boreal forests and determine the growth responses of dominant tree species to recent climate changesZ0340_OverstoryVMC.340.453mySQLMartin Dovciak. 2013. Overstory Characteristics at Mt. Mansfield Sampling Locations. SUNY ESF. FEMC. Can be found at: /femc/data/archive/project/global-change-northeastern-montane-forests/dataset/overstory-montane-global-change/femc/data/archive/project/global-change-northeastern-montane-forests/dataset/overstory-montane-global-changesizeclassSize ClassOverstory tree size classes-mature or saplingtextmountainName of MountainName of mountain where samples were collectedtextsiteElevationElevation of study plotintmeter100real5001100live.deadLive or DeadDesignation of trees as live or deadintspeciesTree SpeciesTree species nametextABBAITIS #18032, balsam fir (Abies balsamea)PIRUITIS #18034, red spruce (Picea rubens)BEPAITIS #19489, paper birch (Betula papyrifera)UNKITIS #823, (Radiocystis )BECOITIS #195222, mountain paper birch (Betula cordifolia)SODEITIS #253222, ( )ACPEITIS #28754, striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum)ACSAITIS #28731, sugar maple (Acer saccharum)BEALITIS #19481, yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis)FAGRITIS #19462, American beech (Fagus grandifolia)TSCAITIS #183397, Canada hemlock; hemlock spruce (Tsuga canadensis)ACRUITIS #28728, red maple (Acer rubrum)PRPEITIS #24799, pin cherry (Prunus pensylvanica)countCountTotal number of that species, size class, live or dead encountered at that siteintnumber1integerfrequencyFrequencyNumber of subplots (out of 15) it appeared in at least oncedecimalpercent0.000000001real0100densityDensityDensity as numbers per hectaredecimalcustomNumberPerHectare0.000000001realbasal areaBasal Area Basal area in m^2 per hectaredecimalcustomMetersSquaredPerHectare0.000000001real