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Seedlings at Mt. Mansfield Sampling LocationsForest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative705 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)leadSpecies id, frequency and density of seedlings (between 50 and 200 cm tall) on 1X1 plots located at each of the 15 subplots/elevation at Mt MansfieldForest Ecosystem Monitoring CooperativeGlobal Change Fingerprints in Protected Montane Forests of Northeastern USJay 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.Seedlings at Mt. Mansfield Sampling LocationsSpecies id, frequency and density of seedlings (between 50 and 200 cm tall) on 1X1 plots located at each of the 15 subplots/elevation at Mt MansfieldVMC.340.452mySQL/femc/data/archive/project/global-change-northeastern-montane-forests/dataset/seedlings-montane-global-change2013-06-012013-08-30mountainName of MountainName of mountain where samples were collectedtextsiteElevationElevation of plot siteintmeterreal01500speciesSeedling Species Codes4 digit seedling species code (first two letters of genus and first two of species)textABBA
ITIS #18032, balsam fir (Abies balsamea)PRPE
ITIS #24799, pin cherry (Prunus pensylvanica)SODE
ITIS #253222, ( )PIRU
ITIS #18034, red spruce (Picea rubens)ACSA
ITIS #28731, sugar maple (Acer saccharum)FAGR
ITIS #19462, American beech (Fagus grandifolia)ACPE
ITIS #28754, striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum)ACRU
ITIS #28728, red maple (Acer rubrum)BEAL
ITIS #19481, yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis)frequencyFrequencyProportion of subplots that species appeared in(out of 15)decimalmeterreal0100densityDensityNumber of stems per hectare based on count estimates in 1 meter squared plotsdecimalmeterreal