public read Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

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(802) 656-0683femc@uvm.eduwww.uvm.edu/femcUnited States Geological Survey (USGS) United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation ServiceForest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative (FEMC) University of Vermont College of Agriculture and Life SciencesUnited States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National ForestspartnerThis dataset contains the years that each quadrant for each plot was sampled. In addition, there are notes explaining any changes made.Forest Ecosystem Monitoring CooperativeJoshuaHalmancontentProviderCarlWaitecontentProviderSandraWilmotcontentProviderNancyBurtcontentProviderJamieShanleycontentProviderDeaneWangcontentProviderSeanLawsoncontentProviderThomasVillarsprincipalInvestigatorScottBaileyprincipalInvestigatorDonaldRossprincipalInvestigatorJamesDuncancontentProviderJenniferWrightcontentProviderAngelicaQuintanacontentProviderLong-term monitoring of forest soils is necessary to understand the effects of continued environmental change, including climate change, atmospheric deposition of metals, and recovery from acidic precipitation. A monitoring program was initiated in 2002 at five protected forest sites in Vermont, three in Mt. Mansfield State Forest and two in the Lye Brook Wilderness Area. Every 5 years at each site, ten soil pits are dug and sampled from subplots in a 50 × 50-m plot.Sampling ScheduleThis dataset contains the years that each quadrant for each plot was sampled. In addition, there are notes explaining any changes made.VMC.161.2463mySQL/femc/data/archive/project/long-term-soil-monitoring/dataset/sampling-schedule2002-01-01fkPlotIDPlot IDNumerical ID given to each plot within each site. There are 100 plots per site.intfkQuadrantIDQuadrant IDThe quadrant of the subdivided pit, NE, SE, SW, NW, NA.intfkSiteIDSite IDTwo letter IDs given to each of the 5 sites.textfldNotesNotesNotes indicating any changes to the sampling scheduletextfldSampleYearSample YearSampling year dateYYYY