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This 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).

• Label: Basal Area, 1998

• Description: Basal area in 1998 of trees present before the ice storm (sq meter/ha)

• Storage Type: decimal

• Measurment Type: interval

• Label: Basal Area, 1999

• Description: Basal area in 1999 of trees present before the ice storm (sq meter/ha)

• Storage Type: decimal

• Measurment Type: interval

• Label: Basal Area, 2000

• Description: Basal area in 2000 of trees present before the ice storm (sq meter/ha)

• Storage Type: decimal

• Measurment Type: interval

• Label: Basal Area, 2001

• Description: Basal area in 2001 of trees present before the ice storm (sq meter/ha)

• Storage Type: decimal

• Measurment Type: interval

• Label: Basal Area, 2002

• Description: Basal area in 1998 of trees present before the ice storm (sq meter/ha)

• Storage Type: decimal

• Measurment Type: interval

• Label: Annual Percent Change, 2000-2001

• Description: Annual percent change of basal area between 2000 and 2001

• Storage Type: decimal

• Measurment Type: interval

• Label: Annual Percent Change, 2001-2002

• Description: Annual percent change of basal area between 2001 and 2002

• Storage Type: decimal

• Measurment Type: interval

• Label: Annual Percent Change, 1998-1999

• Description: Annual percent change of basal area between 1998 and 1999

• Storage Type: decimal

• Measurment Type: interval

• Label: Annual Percent Change, 1999-2000

• Description: Annual percent change of basal area between 1999 and 2000

• Storage Type: decimal

• Measurment Type: interval

• Label: Plot

• Description: Plots 1 and 2= heavy ice damage, plots 3 and 4=control (light ice damage)

• Storage Type: int

• Measurment Type: interval
• Precision: 1

• Label: Basal Area of New Recruits, 2000

• Description: Basal area in 2000 of new recruits (sq meter/ha)

• Storage Type: decimal

• Measurment Type: interval

• Label: Basal Area of New Recruits, 2001

• Description: Basal area in 2001 of new recruits (sq meter/ha)

• Storage Type: decimal

• Measurment Type: interval

• Label: Basal Area of New Recruits, 2002

• Description: Basal area in 2002 of new recruits (sq meter/ha)

• Storage Type: decimal

• Measurment Type: interval

• Label: Basal Area of New Recruits, 1998

• Description: Basal area in 1998 of new recruits (sq meter/ha)

• Storage Type: decimal

• Measurment Type: interval

• Label: Basal Area of New Recruits, 1999

• Description: Basal area in 1999 of new recruits (sq meter/ha)

• Storage Type: decimal

• Measurment Type: interval

• Label: Species

• Storage Type: int

• Measurment Type: nominal

• Species List: Shaw Mountain Ice Storm Study 1998-2002 Species Codes
• • Code: ACSA
  • • Definition: ITIS #28731, sugar maple (Acer saccharum)
  • Code: BELE
  • • Definition: ITIS #19487, sweet birch (Betula lenta)
  • Code: BEPA
  • • Definition: ITIS #19489, paper birch (Betula papyrifera)
  • Code: CACA
  • • Definition: ITIS #19504, American hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana)
  • Code: CACO
  • • Definition: ITIS #19227, bitternut hickory; pignut (Carya cordiformis)
  • Code: CAOV
  • • Definition: ITIS #19242, shagbark hickory (Carya ovata)
  • Code: FRAM
  • • Definition: ITIS #32931, white ash (Fraxinus americana)
  • Code: OSVI
  • • Definition: ITIS #19511, eastern hophornbeam; hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana)