Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative(802) 656-0683femc@uvm.eduwww.uvm.edu/femc705 Spear StreetSouth BurlingtonVermont05403United States of AmericaVermont Nature Conservancy partnerShaw Mountain Ice Storm Study 1998-2002This study tracks forest response to an ice storm. The forest inventory plots, established in 1998 are located at the Nature Conservancy's Shaw Mountain Natural Area in Benson, VT. Used to study the impacts of this disturbance on forest structure and composition. Response variables include abiotic conditions, soil, downed woody material, canopy cover and light penetration, canopy composition, tree recruitment, tree vitality analysis, seedling density by species and height, tree diameter analysis, basal area of trees, and herbaceous layer after an ice storm. Four 20x20m plots were located at 190-215 m elevation, two in heavily ice-damaged forest and two in lightly damaged forest (controls).Shaw Mountain Ice Storm Study 1998-2002GravesJamesforest inventoryice stormforest regenerationdisturbanceCanopy Composition1998-07-141998-07-15Canopy composition, 1998, on Shaw Mountain, VT. Elevation 190-215m.Z1341_2716_5HHYWLVMC.1341.2716mySQLJames Graves (2002) Canopy Composition. FEMC. Available online at: /femc/data/archive/project/shaw_mountain_ice_storm_study/dataset/canopy-composition/femc/data/archive/project/shaw_mountain_ice_storm_study/dataset/canopy-compositionBasal_AreaBasal AreaBasal area by m^2 per hectare. Stems dead prior to the ice storm are not included. (For example, plot 1 had one dead stem of Fraxinus americana.)decimal0.01SpeciesSpeciestextPlotPlotPlot idintStem_DiameterStem DiameterStem diameter (mean) in cmint1Stem_DensityStem DensityStem density by stems per hectareint1Trees_Per_SampleTrees Per SampleCount of trees per sampleint1