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 compositionCharacteristics of Mt. Mansfield Sampling Locations2013-06-012013-08-30Characteristics of sample sites including elevation, slope, aspect, canopy cover and soil depth, collected from 4 of the 15 subplots (numbers 1, 5, 10 and 15).Characterize sample sites of studyZ0340_SiteCharacteristicsVMC.340.450mySQLMartin Dovciak. 2013. Characteristics of 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/site-characteristics-montane-global-changehttps://www.uvm.edu/femc/CI4/data/archive/project/global-change-northeastern-montane-forests/dataset/site-characteristics-montane-global-changemountainName of mountainName of mountain where sample plots are locatedtextsiteElevationElevation of plot siteintmeter100real01500slope(d)SlopeSteepness of topography, averaged from 4 readingsdecimaldegree0.01real0360aspect(d.from.South)AspectAspect is the compass direction that a slope faces. In this case it was taken from the south and is an average of 4 measures.decimaldegree0.01real0360canopy.opennessCanopy opennessPercent canopy openness as an average of 4 densiometer readingsdecimalpercent0.001real0100soildepth(cm)Soil depthAverage of 4 measures of soil depthdecimalcentimeter0.001real