public read Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

705 Spear StreetSouth BurlingtonVermont05403United States of America

(802) 656-0683femc@uvm.eduwww.uvm.edu/femcUnited 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 ForestspartnerPlot-level information that will aid in the relocation of plots. In 2002 plots corners coordinates were measured using a Trimble. From these plot corner coordinates the center, northeastern, southeastern, southwestern, and northwestern coordinates of the four quadrants in each of the 100 subplots were calculated.Forest Ecosystem Monitoring CooperativeJoshuaHalmancontentProviderCarlWaitecontentProviderSandraWilmotcontentProviderNancyBurtcontentProviderJamieShanleycontentProviderDeaneWangcontentProviderSeanLawsoncontentProviderThomasVillarsprincipalInvestigatorScottBaileyprincipalInvestigatorDonaldRossprincipalInvestigatorJamesDuncancontentProviderJenniferWrightcontentProviderAngelicaQuintanacontentProviderLong-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.Plot Identifying InformationPlot-level information that will aid in the relocation of plots. In 2002 plots corners coordinates were measured using a Trimble. From these plot corner coordinates the center, northeastern, southeastern, southwestern, and northwestern coordinates of the four quadrants in each of the 100 subplots were calculated.VMC.161.2459mySQL/femc/data/archive/project/long-term-soil-monitoring/dataset/plot-identifying-information-22002-01-01fkSiteIDSite IDEach of the 5 sites are given two letter IDs.textfldCenterLatCenter LatitudeCenter Latitude of the quadrant.decimalmeternaturalfldGeometryfldGeometryNo description for this attributetextfldCenterLongCenter LongitudeCenter longitude of the quadrantdecimalmeternaturalfldNELatNE LatitudeLatitude of NE cornerdecimalmeternaturalfldNWLatNW latitudeLatitude of NW cornerdecimalmeternaturalfldNELongNE longitudeLongitude of NE cornerdecimalmeternaturalfldNWLongNW LongitudeLongitude of NW cornerdecimalmeternaturalfldSELatSE LatitudeLatitude of SE cornerdecimalmeternaturalfldSELongSE longitudeLongitude of SE cornerdecimalmeternaturalfldSWLatSW LatitudeLatitude of SW cornerdecimalmeternaturalfldSWLongSW LongitudeLongitude of SW cornerdecimalmeternaturalpkPlotIDPlot IDNumerical ID given to each plot within each site. There are 100 plots per site.intpkQuadrantIDQuadrant IDThe quadrant of the subdivided pit, NE, SE, SW, NW, NA.text