Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

Forest Research at Harvard Forest: Red Maple Seedling Soil Warming Experiment in Harvard Forest Lath House 2015

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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

Abstract

    Since 1907, the Harvard Forest has served as a center for research and education in forest biology and conservation. The Forest's Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program, established in 1988 and funded by the National Science Foundation, provides a framework for much of this activity.

People

  • Emery Boose: Principal Investigator

Keywords

  • forest regeneration, germination, seedlings, soil warming,

Organizations

  • Harvard University Harvard Forest: lead
  • Duke Forest : partner

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    Data Table

    • Title: Red Maple Seedling Soil Warming Experiment in Harvard Forest Lath House 2015
    • Start Date: 2015-01-01
    • End Date: 2015-12-31
    • Description: Microhabitat environmental conditions are an important filter for seedling establishment, controlling the availability of optimal recruitment sites. Understanding how tree seedlings respond to warming soil temperature is critical for predicting population recruitment in the future hardwood forests of Northeastern North America, particularly as environmental conditions and thus optimal microhabitat availabilities change. We examined the effect of 5˚C soil warming during the first growing season on germination, survival, phenology, growth, and stem and root biomass allocation in Acer rubrum (red maple) seedlings.

    • Purpose: To understand the effect of experimental warming on the germination, survival, phenology, growth and biomass of red maple seedlings.

    • Condensed Title:

    • Object Name: VMC.1387.2863

    • Data Type: mySQL
    • Citation: Wheeler J, Stinson K. 2017. Red Maple Seedling Soil Warming Experiment in Harvard Forest Lath House 2015. Harvard Forest Data Archive: HF291. Available at: http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu:8080/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf291

    • Online Distribution: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/Harvard_Forest_Research/dataset/red-maple-seedling-soil-warming-experiment

    Attribute List

      Attribute Name: species
      • Label: Species for Red Maple Seedling Soil Warming Exp at HF dataset
      • Description: Species for Red Maple Seedling Soil Warming Exp at HF Lath House 2015 dataset (hf291)
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      • Species List: Red Maple Seedling Soil Warming Exp at HF Species
        • Code: Acer rubrum
          • Definition: ITIS #28728, red maple (Acer rubrum)

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    • No sampling equipment recorded for this dataset

    Site Characteristics

    • No site characteristics recorded for this dataset