Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative(802) 656-0683femc@uvm.eduwww.uvm.edu/femc705 Spear StreetSouth BurlingtonVermont05403United States of AmericaOzone Bioindicator Plant MonitoringDetect ozone injury on sensitive native plants, record first occurence data for each species, and evaluate the maximum severity of the damage.Ozone Bioindicator Plant MonitoringJohnsonMichaelSimmonsTomWilmotSandraLawsonSeanLackeyJayplant speciesmonitoringozonebioindicatorOzone Bio-indicator Plants1997-01-012001-12-31Native plant species known to be senstive to ozone and reliable bioindicators of ozone injury, are monitored annually to determine the presence/absence of injury on up to 10 individuals per species.Detect ozone injury on sensitive native plants, record first occurence data for each species, and evaluate the maximum severity of the damage.Z0023_OZBioIndPlantsVMC.23.22mySQLLackey J., and S. Wilmot. 2001. Ozone Bio-indicator Plants. VT Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation. FEMC. Can be found at: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/ozone-bioindicator-plant-monitoring/dataset/ozone-bio-indicator-plantshttps://www.uvm.edu/femc/CI4/data/archive/project/ozone-bioindicator-plant-monitoring/dataset/ozone-bio-indicator-plantsamount_maximumamount_maximumThe maximum amount of injury for a given biological species at a hexagon equals the maximum value of all the injury amounts for that species. If there are no injured plants within the species, the maximum amount of injury for the species equals zero.decimalamount_meanamount_meansummation( injury amounts for a given species at a hexagon that are greater than zero ) / number of damaged plantsdecimalamount_minimumamount_minimumminimum( injury amounts for a given species at a hexagon ) intcount_of_plants_evaluatedcount_of_plants_evaluatedcount( all plants evaluated for a given species at a hexagon )intcount_of_plants_injuredcount_of_plants_injuredcount( plants within a given species at a hexagon that have an injury severity amount greater than zero )inthexagon_numberhexagon_numberintID_numID_numintplants_ratioplants_ratioplants_inj_cnt / plants_eval_cntdecimalplot_numberplot_numberintprojectprojectintseverity_maximumseverity_maximummaximum( injury severity amounts for a given species at a hexagon )decimalseverity_meanseverity_meansummation( injury severity amounts for a given species at a hexagon that are greater than zero ) / plants_inj_cntdecimalseverity_minimumseverity_minimumminimum( injury severity amounts for a given species at a hexagon )decimalSpeciesSpeciesintspecies_indexspecies_indexplants_ratio * species_sumdecimalspecies_sumspecies_sumsummation( ( plant's injury amount ) * ( plant's injury severity amount ) ) / plants_inj_cntdecimalyearyeardatetimeYYYY