Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative(802) 656-0683femc@uvm.eduwww.uvm.edu/femc705 Spear StreetSouth BurlingtonVermont05403United States of AmericaUnited States Geological Survey (USGS) United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation ServiceForest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative (FEMC) University of Vermont College of Agriculture and Life SciencesUnited States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National ForestspartnerVermont Long-Term Soil Monitoring ProgramLong-term monitoring of forest soils is necessary to understand the effects of continued environmental change, including climate change, atmospheric deposition of metals, and recovery from acidic precipitation. A monitoring program was initiated in 2002 at five protected forest sites in Vermont, three in Mt. Mansfield State Forest and two in the Lye Brook Wilderness Area. Every 5 years at each site, ten soil pits are dug and sampled from subplots in a 50 × 50-m plot.Vermont Long-Term Soil Monitoring ProgramHalmanJoshuaWaiteCarlWilmotSandraBurtNancyShanleyJamieWangDeaneLawsonSeanVillarsThomasBaileyScottRossDonaldDuncanJamesWrightJenniferQuintanaAngelicahuman disturbancelong term monitoringsoilcontinuous forest inventory vermont forestsforest regenerationUnderstory Herbaceous Plant List2002-06-012007-06-01Tracking presence-absence of all plant species encountered between each of the 5 sites. A survey of each 50m^2 site was conducted in 2002 to identify all plants to species where possible without recording abundance data. In 2007, using the data collected in 2002, an inventory of plants present across each 50m^2 site was completed in addition to other inventory work. In 2012 the protocol was changed and presence/absence was no longer collected. Instead, the protocol switched to an abundance measure (percent cover) at each of the 10 assigned plots per site for that sampling year.Track presence/absence of vegetative understory within Long-Term Soil Monitoring plot network.Z0161_2467_03SB0ZVMC.161.2467mySQLNatural Resources Conservation Service, Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative, University of Vermont, USDA Forest Service, Green Mountain National Forest and Northern Research Station, and US Geological Survey (2018) Understory Herbaceous Plant List. FEMC. Available online at: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/long-term-soil-monitoring/dataset/understory-herbaceous-plant-listhttps://www.uvm.edu/femc/CI4/data/archive/project/long-term-soil-monitoring/dataset/understory-herbaceous-plant-listCommonNameCommon NameCommon name of herbaceous species encountered.textenuPurposePurposePurpose of visittextfkSiteIDSite IDSite IDtextfldYearYearYeardateYYYYGenusGenusGenus of herbaceous species encountered textPresenceAbsencePresence AbsenceP = present, A = absenttextSpeciesSpeciesSpecific epithet for herbaceous species encounteredtext