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Methods

The methods followed in the creation of the dataset, including description of field, laboratory and processing steps, and quality control procedures

Current Methods

  • Monitoring on Mount Mansfield
    Started: 1992-07-15

    Sugar maple and yellow birch are monitored at 1400 and 2200 feet on Mansfield


  • Started: 1999-07-15

    Yellow birch and paper birch at 2600 feet on Mansfield were added to represent high elevation fall phenology.

  • Monitoring at Lye Brook

    Red maple at 1400 feet in the Lye Brook Wilderness Area was added as a southern Vermont monitoring site.


  • Started: 1995-07-15

    Red maple (male and female) and white ash are monitored at 1400 feet, only.

  • Crown metrics
    Started: 1991-07-15

    Visual crown ratings are recorded on 5 trees and 5 saplings (same trees as for bud development ratings).

  • New color and leaf drop
    Started: 1991-07-15

    Visual crown ratings consist of percent color other than green, transparency (%), dieback-loss of leaves (%).


  • Started: 1994-07-15

    Crown density measurement was added in 1994 as a way to better estimate leaf drop.


  • Started: 1991-07-15

    Initial crown ratings are recorded in July, then every other week until color and drop changes rapidly (end of September) when weekly measurements are made. Full leaf off density is used to calculate percent leaf drop at each visit.


  • Started: 2001-07-15

    New color and leaf drop methods added to existing methods for testing. Color based on % color visible regardless of leaf drop. Added % green. Leaf drop based on visual estimate rather than measures of density, transparency or dieback. Total of color, green and leaf drop to equal 100%.

Dataset Fields

Detailed documentation of the fields comprising the dataset, including the type of measurement, units where applicable, and any controlled vocabularies or code lists present in the data


Field Name Caption Description Additional Information
YearYear

Year of survey

DateTime Date/Time Format: YYYY
SpeciesSpecies

Species observed. Note that RMS is female red maple, and RMP is male red maple.

NominalFall Color Phenology Monitoring Species Codes
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Appears in data asMeaning
SMsugar maple (Acer saccharum) - View ITIS Record
RMSred maple (Acer rubrum) - View ITIS Record
WAwhite ash (Fraxinus americana) - View ITIS Record
WBpaper birch (Betula papyrifera) - View ITIS Record
YByellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis) - View ITIS Record
RMPred maple (Acer rubrum) - View ITIS Record
ElevationElevation

Elevation of survey

Ratio
Unit: foot
Precision: 1
day246Day 246 percent leaf drop

Average percent leaf drop on day-of-year 246

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day247Day 247 percent leaf drop

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day248Day 248 percent leaf drop

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day249Day 249 percent leaf drop

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day250Day 250 percent leaf drop

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day251Day 251 percent leaf drop

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day252Day 252 percent leaf drop

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day253Day 253 percent leaf drop

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day254Day 254 percent leaf drop

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day255Day 255 percent leaf drop

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day256Day 256 percent leaf drop

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day257Day 257 percent leaf drop

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day258Day 258 percent leaf drop

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day259Day 259 percent leaf drop

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day260Day 260 percent leaf drop

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day261Day 261 percent leaf drop

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day262Day 262 percent leaf drop

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day263Day 263 percent leaf drop

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day264Day 264 percent leaf drop

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day265Day 265 percent leaf drop

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day266Day 266 percent leaf drop

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day267Day 267 percent leaf drop

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day268Day 268 percent leaf drop

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day269Day 269 percent leaf drop

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day270Day 270 percent leaf drop

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day271Day 271 percent leaf drop

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day272Day 272 percent leaf drop

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day273Day 273 percent leaf drop

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day274Day 274 percent leaf drop

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day275Day 275 percent leaf drop

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day276Day 276 percent leaf drop

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day277Day 277 percent leaf drop

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day278Day 278 percent leaf drop

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day279Day 279 percent leaf drop

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day280Day 280 percent leaf drop

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day281Day 281 percent leaf drop

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day282Day 282 percent leaf drop

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day283Day 283 percent leaf drop

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day284Day 284 percent leaf drop

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day285Day 285 percent leaf drop

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day286Day 286 percent leaf drop

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day287Day 287 percent leaf drop

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day288Day 288 percent leaf drop

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day289Day 289 percent leaf drop

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day290Day 290 percent leaf drop

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day291Day 291 percent leaf drop

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day292Day 292 percent leaf drop

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day293Day 293 percent leaf drop

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day294Day 294 percent leaf drop

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day295Day 295 percent leaf drop

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day296Day 296 percent leaf drop

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day297Day 297 percent leaf drop

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day298Day 298 percent leaf drop

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day302Day 302 percent leaf drop

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day303Day 303 percent leaf drop

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day304Day 304 percent leaf drop

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day305Day 305 percent leaf drop

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day306Day 306 percent leaf drop

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day307Day 307 percent leaf drop

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day308Day 308 percent leaf drop

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day309Day 309 percent leaf drop

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day310Day 310 percent leaf drop

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Sampling Equipment

Equipment and software used to collect data, including how that equipment was used.

No sampling equipment recorded for this dataset

Site Characteristics

The spatial extent of the dataset site coverage, and descriptions of the spatial extent and context for the data collection

  • Site Description

    Upper elevation site (2200 ft.) added in the Underhill State Park.

  • Site Description

    West slope of Mount Mansfield in the Browns River watershed at low elevation site (1400 ft.) at the Proctor Maple Research Center,