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New York City Watershed Lands Forest Inventory: Overstory Tree Inventory

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  • Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

    • Address:
      705 Spear Street
      South Burlington, Vermont 05403
      United States of America

      Phone: (802) 391-4135
      Email: femc@uvm.edu
      Website: www.uvm.edu/femc

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    Forest inventory plots collected by NYCDEP contractors on NYC watershed lands. Data includes plot locations (shapefile) and access database with forest inventory variables. Data is summarized at the stand level.

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  • Gennaro Falco: dataset_eml_peopleprincipleinvestigator

  • Ethan Pierce: dataset_eml_peopleprincipleinvestigator

  • Deborah Layton: dataset_eml_peopleprincipleinvestigator

  • Joy Damon: dataset_eml_peoplecontentprovider

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  • catskills, forest inventory, new york, tree, tree growth,

Organizations

  • New York City Department of Environmental Protection NYC DEP: lead

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    • dataset_eml_datatabletitle: Overstory Tree Inventory
    • dataset_eml_datatablestartdate: 2009-01-01
    • dataset_eml_datatabledescription: Inventory of overstory trees within NYC's watershed lands on 10 BAF plots. Overstory trees are classified as trees greater than five inches in DBH (diameter at breast height). Periodically updated, data was collected in 2009. NYCDEP is adding additional inventory in 2018.

    • dataset_eml_datatablepurpose: The purpose of this dataset is to inventory overstory trees in NYCDEP forest stands.

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    • dataset_eml_datatablecitation: Falco, G. (Ongoing) Overstory Tree Inventory. NYCDEP.

    • dataset_eml_datatableonlinedistribution: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/CI4/data/archive/project/Forest_inventory_nyc_dep/dataset/overstory-tree-observation

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