Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

Lye Brook Area Ecological Land Type Classification: Site Environmental Data for Plots

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Metadata Provider

  • Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

    • 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

Abstract

    This project performed extensive sampling in the Lye Brook Wilderness are to classify ecological communities based on an integration of soils, vegetation & physiographic data. These communities were then mapped.

People

  • Diane Burbank: Content Provider

  • Nancy Burt: Principal Investigator

Keywords

  • forest ecology, land cover, permanent plots, physical properties,

Geographic Coverage

  • Coordinates
    • 451456.6947999997, 61580.78020000085
    • 464145.3128000004, 61580.78020000085
    • 464145.3128000004, 74074.30030000024
    • 451456.6947999997, 74074.30030000024
    • 451456.6947999997, 61580.78020000085

Data Table

  • Title: Site Environmental Data for Plots
  • Start Date: 1993-06-01
  • End Date: 1993-08-31
  • Description: Data was collected in each plot on topographical variables (slope, aspect, elevation, microtopography), as well as physiographic variables, including general landscape position, geologic material, modes of depostion, distance to water, and disturbance.

  • Purpose: To classify ecological communities in the Lye Brook Area based on an vegetation.

  • Condensed Title: Z0001_EnvironmentSiteData_LyeBrook

  • Object Name: VMC.1.332

  • Data Type: mySQL
  • Citation: Nancy Burt. 1993. Site Environmental Data for Plots. Green Mountain National Forest.

  • Online Distribution: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/lye-brook-area-ecological-land-type/dataset/site-environmental-data-for-plots

Attribute List

    Attribute Name: %CRSFR
    • Label: %CRSFR
    Attribute Name: %OUTCP
    • Label: %OUTCP
    • Description: % outcrops in ordinal classes: 1=<1% outcrops, 2= 1-2% outcrops, 3.5=2-5% outcrops, 8=6-10% outcrops, 17.5=10-25% outcrops, 60=>25% outcrops
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    Attribute Name: 605b
    • Label: 605b
    • Description: Ecological land type code, presence absence (1/0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: 902b
    • Label: 902b
    • Description: Ecological land type code, presence absence (1/0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: 902d
    • Label: 902d
    • Description: Ecological land type code, presence absence (1/0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: 903a
    • Label: 903a
    • Description: Ecological land type code, presence absence (1/0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: 903d
    • Label: 903d
    • Description: Ecological land type code, presence absence (1/0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: 905b
    • Label: 905b
    • Description: Ecological land type code, presence absence (1/0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: 905d
    • Label: 905d
    • Description: Ecological land type code, presence absence (1/0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: 921d
    • Label: 921d
    • Description: Ecological land type code, presence absence (1/0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: AMENIA
    • Label: AMENIA
    • Description: Amenia soil series, (1,0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: ATHICK
    • Label: ATHICK
    • Description: Thickness of A horizon to 1 cm
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: interval
    • Unit: cm
    Attribute Name: BERKSH
    • Label: BERKSH
    • Description: Berkshire soil series, (1/0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: BHTHCK
    • Label: BHTHCK
    • Description: Bh layer thickness, to 1 cm
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: interval
    Attribute Name: BNYUNI
    • Label: BNYUNI
    • Description: Benchy/Uniform topography, order is fall-line
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: BROSPR
    • Label: BROSPR
    • Description: Borosaprist soils, (1,0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: CNCUNI
    • Label: CNCUNI
    • Description: Concave/Uniform topography order is fall-line
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: CNXHUM
    • Label: CNXHUM
    • Description: Convex/Hummocky topography, order is fall-line first, (1/0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: CNXUNI
    • Label: CNXUNI
    • Description: Convex/Uniform topography, order is fall-line first, (1/0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: DNFRTH
    • Label: DNFRTH
    • Description: Danforth soil series, (1/0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: DPTHIM
    • Label: DPTHIM
    • Description: Depth to an impermeable layer, to 1 cm
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: DRNAGE
    • Label: DRNAGE
    • Description: Drainage, in ordinal classes: 1 = Extremely well-drained (EWD), 2 = Well-drained (WD), 3 = Moderately well-drained (MWD), 4 = Somewhat poorly drained (SPD), 5 = Poorly drained (PD), 6 = Very poorly drained (VPD)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: interval
    Attribute Name: DSTH20
    • Label: DSTH20
    • Description: Distance to water, in ordinal classes: 15= midpoint, 0-30m, 50= midpoint, 30-70m, 70 = midpoint (+/-),>70m
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: ordinal
    Attribute Name: ELEVTN
    • Label: ELEVTN
    • Description: Elevation, in feet, to nearest one foot
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: interval
    Attribute Name: HGBACK
    • Label: HGBACK
    • Description: Hogback soil series, (1/0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: HGTVLL
    • Label: HGTVLL
    • Description: Houghtonville soil series, (1/0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: LNDFRM
    • Label: LNDFRM
    • Description: Landform, ordinal codes of: 1 = point/knob, 2= ridge, 3 = highflat, 4 = upper mountain slope, 5 = mountain slope
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: ordinal
    Attribute Name: LNRHUM
    • Label: LNRHUM
    • Description: Linear/Hummocky topography, order is fall-line first, (1/0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: LNRUNI
    • Label: LNRUNI
    • Description: Linear/Uniform topography, order is fall-line first, (1/0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: MARBLE
    • Label: MARBLE
    • Description: Marble bedrock type (presence/absence - 1/0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: MARLOW
    • Label: MARLOW
    • Description: Marlow soil series, (1/0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: MTTLTK
    • Label: MTTLTK
    • Description: Depth to mottling, to 1 cm.
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: interval
    Attribute Name: MUNDAL
    • Label: MUNDAL
    • Description: Mundal soil series, (1/0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: interval
    Attribute Name: ORGFRG
    • Label: ORGFRG
    • Description: Organics over Fragments soils, (1/0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: OTHICK
    • Label: OTHICK
    • Description: Thickness of organic horizons, to 1 cm
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: interval
    Attribute Name: PERU
    • Label: PERU
    • Description: Peru soil series, (1/0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: Plot
    • Label: Plot
    • Description: Plot ID
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: PRFUNC
    • Label: PRFUNC
    • Description: Profound Unconformity type (presence/absence - 1/0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: QRTZTE
    • Label: QRTZTE
    • Description: Quartzite bedrock type (presence/absence - 1/0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: SCHIST
    • Label: SCHIST
    • Description: Schist bedrock type (presence/absence - 1/0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: SEEPS
    • Label: SEEPS
    • Description: Occurrence of seeps, in ordinal classes: 1= no seeps, 2 = few seeps, 3= seeps are common, 4= many seeps
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: ordinal
    Attribute Name: SFCFRG
    • Label: SFCFRG
    • Description: % Surface Fragments, in ordinal classes: 5.0 midpoint < 10%, 17.5 = midpoint, 10-25%, 60= midpoint, >25%
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    Attribute Name: SLMTHK
    • Label: SLMTHK
    • Description: Solum thickness (A+B), to 1 cm.
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: interval
    Attribute Name: SLOPE
    • Label: SLOPE
    • Description: Percent slope, to nearest one percent
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    Attribute Name: SOILpH
    • Label: SOILpH
    • Description: pH of mineral soil in ordinal classes: 1= acidic, 2= neutral, 3= alkaline
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: ordinal
    Attribute Name: SOILTP
    • Label: SOILTP
    • Description: Soil temperature at 30cm, in degrees Farenheit, to 1 degree.
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: interval
    Attribute Name: SPOTHK
    • Label: SPOTHK
    • Description: Spodic layer thickness, to 1 cm.
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: interval
    Attribute Name: TFASP
    • Label: TFASP
    • Description: Azimuth, transformed using Beer's transformation, to 0.01 unit.
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: interval
    Attribute Name: WORDEN
    • Label: WORDEN
    • Description: Worden soil series, (1/0)
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal

Methods

  • Past Methods (no longer in use)
    • Landscape phase mapping
      • Started: 1993-06-01
        Ended: 1993-08-31
      • Method Description: Landscape phase mapping includes data on: slope-shape, steepness, aspect, position, hydrologic characteristics, associations and consociations of soil taxa and plant associations and phases

    • Stand selection criteria
      • Started: 1993-06-01
        Ended: 1993-08-31
      • Method Description: General: Stand selection criteria, greater than 1 hectare; undisturbed; not too heterogenous; not dominated by exotic species. Plot size varied with community homogeneity; permanent plots of 20X40m, 20X20 or 10X20 m on 29 forest communities.

Sampling Equipment

  • No sampling equipment recorded for this dataset

Site Characteristics

  • Site Description: Extensive mapping in Lye Brook Wilderness Area.