Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative(802) 656-0683femc@uvm.eduwww.uvm.edu/femc705 Spear StreetSouth BurlingtonVermont05403United States of AmericaThe State University of New York (SUNY) College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF)leadGlobal Change Fingerprints in Protected Montane Forests of Northeastern USThis 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.Global Change Fingerprints in Protected Montane Forests of Northeastern USWasonJay W.DovciakMartinclimate changeelevationnorthern forestforest inventoryforest compositionSeedlings at Mt. Mansfield Sampling Locations2013-06-012013-08-30Species id, frequency and density of seedlings (between 50 and 200 cm tall) on 1X1 plots located at each of the 15 subplots/elevation at Mt MansfieldDetermine how climate affects population dynamics of plant species in high elevation boreal forestsZ0340_SeedlingsVMC.340.452mySQLMartin Dovciak. 2013. Seedlings at Mt. Mansfield Sampling Locations. SUNY ESF. FEMC. Can be found at: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/global-change-northeastern-montane-forests/dataset/seedlings-montane-global-changehttps://www.uvm.edu/femc/CI4/data/archive/project/global-change-northeastern-montane-forests/dataset/seedlings-montane-global-changemountainName of MountainName of mountain where samples were collectedtextsiteElevationElevation of plot siteintmeter100real01500speciesSeedling Species Codes4 digit seedling species code (first two letters of genus and first two of species)textABBAITIS #18032, balsam fir (Abies balsamea)PRPEITIS #24799, pin cherry (Prunus pensylvanica)SODEITIS #253222, ( )PIRUITIS #18034, red spruce (Picea rubens)ACSAITIS #28731, sugar maple (Acer saccharum)FAGRITIS #19462, American beech (Fagus grandifolia)ACPEITIS #28754, striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum)ACRUITIS #28728, red maple (Acer rubrum)BEALITIS #19481, yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis)frequencyFrequencyProportion of subplots that species appeared in(out of 15)decimalpercent0.000000001real0100densityDensityNumber of stems per hectare based on count estimates in 1 meter squared plotsdecimalcustomNumberPerHectare0.000000001real