• Address:
  705 Spear Street
  South Burlington, Vermont 05403
  United States of America
  
  Phone: (802) 391-4135
  Email: femc@uvm.edu
  Website: www.uvm.edu/femc

This 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.

• Label: Name of Mountain

• Description: Name of mountain where samples were collected

• Storage Type: text

• Measurment Type: nominal

• Label: Elevation

• Description: Elevation of plot site

• Storage Type: int

• Measurment Type: interval
• Standard Unit: meter
• Precision: 100
• Unit: meter
• Number Type: real
• Bounds:
• Minimum: 0
• Maximum: 1500

• Label: Seedling Species Codes

• Description: 4 digit seedling species code (first two letters of genus and first two of species)

• Storage Type: text

• Measurment Type: nominal

• Species List: Global climate change fingerprints montane forests of NE US Mt Mansfield seedlings
• • Code: ABBA
  • • Definition: ITIS #18032, balsam fir (Abies balsamea)
  • Code: PRPE
  • • Definition: ITIS #24799, pin cherry (Prunus pensylvanica)
  • Code: SODE
  • • Definition: ITIS #253222, ( )
  • Code: PIRU
  • • Definition: ITIS #18034, red spruce (Picea rubens)
  • Code: ACSA
  • • Definition: ITIS #28731, sugar maple (Acer saccharum)
  • Code: FAGR
  • • Definition: ITIS #19462, American beech (Fagus grandifolia)
  • Code: ACPE
  • • Definition: ITIS #28754, striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum)
  • Code: ACRU
  • • Definition: ITIS #28728, red maple (Acer rubrum)
  • Code: BEAL
  • • Definition: ITIS #19481, yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis)

• Label: Frequency

• Description: Proportion of subplots that species appeared in(out of 15)

• Storage Type: decimal

• Measurment Type: ratio
• Standard Unit: percent
• Precision: 0.000000001
• Unit: percent
• Number Type: real
• Bounds:
• Minimum: 0
• Maximum: 100

• Label: Density

• Description: Number of stems per hectare based on count estimates in 1 meter squared plots

• Storage Type: decimal

• Measurment Type: ratio
• Standard Unit: customNumberPerHectare
• Precision: 0.000000001
• Number Type: real

• Seedling metrics
  • Started: 2013-05-15
    Ended: 2013-08-31
    
  • Method Description: Seedlings- frequencies and densities of woody stems in 1m2 subplots were calculated

• Seedling sampling
  • Started: 2013-05-15
    Ended: 2013-08-31
    
  • Method Description: A 1x1m quadrat was placed at each subplot and all tree seedlings within were counted below 50 cm tall and below 200 cm tall (excluding first year germinants).