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Baltimore forest patch point-sample overstory and understory vegetation, 2018-2020
Urban forest patches, including woodland interiors and bounding edge habitat, result from secondary succession and fragmentation of more extensive forested landscapes in the eastern USA. Management regimes, surrounding land use, and successional processes lead to distinct environments and contribute to local and regional heterogeneity. However, many woodlands are degraded due to frequent disturbance, aggressive exotic species, and heavy browsing, which stress canopies, reduce regeneration, and may reduce ecosystem services. Effective management requires rapid, repeatable assessment of forest composition, structure, and condition at the scale of local decision-making. We present and apply a protocol for characterizing urban woodlands that generates new insight into the status of urban woodlands and baseline data for change detection over time. Samples of overstory composition, ground cover, surface soil measurements, and the Schumacher Vine Encroachment Index were collected at 845 points across each of 47 patches across Baltimore, Maryland. Simple citywide summaries allowed characterization of Baltimore’s urban overstories as overwhelmingly native, though dominated by a range of successional conditions. By contrast, we found that ground layers were predominantly exotic, with abundant invasives or ruderal native species benefitting from disturbed conditions. Seven overstory types were distinguished, the majority under threat from aggressive vines. Most soils showed little evidence of compaction, but variable organic content. Distributed data allowed crosspatch comparison as well as within-patch analyses along edge-to-interior gradients. Species diversity, nativity, and overstory basal area all increased towards woodland interiors, whereas soil compaction and vine encroachment decreased. Structural and compositional shifts in both overstory and ground layer species revealed indicators of edge (15.2-18.7 m) and interior (> 41.5 m) conditions, as well as evidence of tran
Vegetation Data Collected with Point Frame for 83 Locations of 6-163 Years Old Black Spruce, Alaska Paper Birch, and Aspen Stands Across Interior Alaska. Sampled in 2008-2010 and 2013-2015.
This dataset contains point frame data for vegetation less than 1.3 m, including vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, leaf litter and bare ground, as well as species codes used, as described in Jean et al. 2017 Canadian Journal of Forest Research. Samples of all encountered unknown species were collected for identification in the lab. Bryophyte nomenclature followed Anderson et al. (1990).
Sevilleta LTER Vegetation Sample Catalog- Ground Samples for Chemical Analysis
Several long-term studies at the Sevilleta LTER measure net primary production (NPP) across ecosystems and treatments. Net primary production is a fundamental ecological variable that quantifies rates of carbon consumption and fixation. Estimates of NPP are important in understanding energy flow at a community level as well as spatial and temporal responses to a range of ecological processes. The NPP weight data (SEV 157) is obtained by harvesting a series of covers for species observed during plot sampling. These species are always harvested from habitat comparable to the plots in which they were recorded. This data is then used to make volumetric measurements of species and build regressions correlating biomass and volume. From these calculations, seasonal biomass and seasonal and annual NPP are determined. These sampled are then vouchered for use to do analyses of inorganic and organic components such as carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorous as well as and other macro and micro nutrients and organic components such as cellulose and lignin.
El Verde Coffee Plantation permanent plot vegetation sampling
Permanent plot data is expected to show (1) rapid increases in percent cover and tree stem density, and (2) rapid turnover from early to late successional plant species. Plant-plant competition indices should show quick increases in intensity with exotics as top competitors which may lead to exclusion of some trees common after landslide and pasture disturbance. Spatial patterns of invading trees should include edge effects due to dispersal limitation with clumping of bird-dispersed species before the first five years. Because of increased nitrogen levels due to plantings of Inga Sp. with coffee, trees should grow, as measured by biomass (productivity), height and basal diameter increases, significantly faster compared to landslide. Support for this work was provided by grants BSR-8811902, DEB-9411973, DEB-9705814 , DEB-0080538, DEB-0218039 , DEB-0620910 , DEB-1239764, DEB-1546686, and DEB-1831952 from the National Science Foundation to the University of Puerto Rico as part of the Luquillo Long-Term Ecological Research Program. Additional support provided by the University of Puerto Rico and the International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service.
Ecuador old fields permanent plot vegetation sampling
Permanent plot data is expected to show these temporal patterns: (1) rapid increases in percent cover and tree stem density, and (2) rapid turnover from early to late successional plant species. Plant-plant competition should show quick increases in intensity with native grass species and exotics as top competitors. These may lead to exclusion of some trees common after landslide disturbance. Spatial patterns of invading trees should include edge effects due to dispersal limitation with clumping of bird-dispersed species before the first five years after cow exclusion. Because of intact soil and low vegetation trees should grow, as measured by biomass(productivity), height, and basal diameter increases, significantly faster compared to colonization of landslides. Support for this work was provided by grants BSR-8811902, DEB-9411973, DEB-9705814 , DEB-0080538, DEB-0218039 , DEB-0620910 , DEB-1239764, DEB-1546686, and DEB-1831952 from the National Science Foundation to the University of Puerto Rico as part of the Luquillo Long-Term Ecological Research Program. Additional support provided by the University of Puerto Rico and the International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service.
Sabana pasture permanent plot vegetation sampling
Permanent plot data is expected to show these temporal patterns: (1) rapid increases in percent cover and tree stem density, and (2) rapid turnover from early to late successional plant species. Plant-plant competition should show quick increases in intensity with native grass species and exotic as top competitors. These may lead to exclusion of some trees common after landslide disturbance. Spatial patterns of invading trees should include edge effects due to dispersal limitation with clumping of bird-dispersed species before the first five years after cow exclusion. Because of intact soil and low vegetation in the pasture trees should grow, as measured by biomass(productivity), height, and basal diameter increases, significantly faster compared to colonization of landslides. Support for this work was provided by grants BSR-8811902, DEB-9411973, DEB-9705814 , DEB-0080538, DEB-0218039 , DEB-0620910 , DEB-1239764, DEB-1546686, and DEB-1831952 from the National Science Foundation to the University of Puerto Rico as part of the Luquillo Long-Term Ecological Research Program. Additional support provided by the University of Puerto Rico and the International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service.
Mega-Monsoon Experiment (MegaME) Vegetation Sampling Data from the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico
Shrub encroachment is a global phenomenon. Both the causes and consequences of shrub encroachment vary regionally and globally. In the southwestern US a common native C3 shrub species, creosotebush, has invaded millions of hectares of arid and semi-arid C4-dominated grassland. At the Sevilleta LTER site, it appears that the grassland-shrubland ecotone is relatively stable, but infill by creosotebush continues to occur. The consequences of shrub encroachment have been and continue to be carefully documented, but the ecological drivers of shrub encroachment in the southwestern US are not well known. One key factor that may promote shrub encroachment is grazing by domestic livestock. However, multiple environmental drivers have changed over the 150 years during which shrub expansion has occurred through the southwestern US. Temperatures are warmer, atmospheric CO2 has increased, drought and rainy cycles have occurred, and grazing pressure has decreased. From our prior research we know that prolonged drought greatly reduces the abundance of native grasses while having limited impact on the abundance of creosotebush in the grass-shrub ecotone. So once established, creosotebush populations are persistent and resistant to climate cycles. We also know that creosotebush seedlings tend to appear primarily when rainfall during the summer monsoon is well above average. However, high rainfall years also stimulate the growth of the dominant grasses creating a competitive environment that may not favor seedling establishment and survival. The purpose of the Mega-Monsoon Experiment (MegaME) is twofold. First, this experiment will determine if high rainfall years coupled with (simulated) grazing promote the establishment and growth of creosotebush seedlings in the grassland-shrubland ecotone at Sevilleta, thus promoting infill and expansion of creosotebush into native grassland. Second, MegaME will determine if a sequence of wet summer monsoons will promote the establishment and gro
Fig. 1. Sample completeness curve for a in Abundance and diversity of beneficial and pest arthropods in buckwheat on blueberry and vegetable farms in north Florida
Fig. 1. Sample completeness curve for a vegetable farm (dark shaded area, 38 samples) and blueberry farm (light shaded area, 19 samples) in Suwannee County, Florida. The solid line is the interpolated insect family-level richness and the dashed line is the extrapolated richness. The shaded areas represent 95% confidence intervals. Sampling effort is standardized based on the sample completeness (the proportion of sampled families to predicted families) at each sampling level, with the circle representing final sampling completeness of 38 samples taken at the vegetable farm and the triangle representing final sampling completeness of 19 samples taken at the blueberry farm.
Text-fig. 3 Pollen diagram from the locality of Bohutín. 0-0.01 m – sandy soil mixed with humus, slightly clayey, sample B11; 0.05 m – grey-blue strongly sandy clay, sample B10; 0.10-0.25 m – brown-grey sandy clay with plant remains and mixed with a small amount of peat, sample B9, sample B8 (0.15 m), sample B7 (0.20 m), sample B6 (0.25 m); 0.30-0.35 m – dark sandy clay mixed with peat and plant remains, sample B5, sample B4 (0.35 m); 0.40 m – grey strongly sandy clay mixed with peat, sample B3; 0.45-0.50 m – grey-blue strongly sandy clay, sample B2, sample B1 (0.50 m). in Reconstruction Of Vegetation Development On The Floodplain Of The Litavka River In The Holocene (Central Bohemia, Brdy Mts.)
Text-fig. 3 Pollen diagram from the locality of Bohutín. 0-0.01 m – sandy soil mixed with humus, slightly clayey, sample B11; 0.05 m – grey-blue strongly sandy clay, sample B10; 0.10-0.25 m – brown-grey sandy clay with plant remains and mixed with a small amount of peat, sample B9, sample B8 (0.15 m), sample B7 (0.20 m), sample B6 (0.25 m); 0.30-0.35 m – dark sandy clay mixed with peat and plant remains, sample B5, sample B4 (0.35 m); 0.40 m – grey strongly sandy clay mixed with peat, sample B3; 0.45-0.50 m – grey-blue strongly sandy clay, sample B2, sample B1 (0.50 m).
Fig. 1. Location and vegetation types where small mammals were sampled between November 2012 and September 2013 in Small mammals from the lasting fragments of Araucaria Forest in southern Brazil: a study about richness and diversity
Fig. 1. Location and vegetation types where small mammals were sampled between November 2012 and September 2013, at Piraí do Sul National Forest, ParanÁ state, Brazil (A, Pine Plantation; B, Riparian Forest; C, Araucaria Plantation; D, Natural Regeneration forest; E, High Altitude forest). Original distribution of Atlantic Forest biome (light gray) and Araucaria forest (dark gray).
Data from: Flying high: Sampling savanna vegetation with UAV-lidar
<p>The flexibility of UAV-lidar remote sensing offers a myriad of new opportunities for savanna ecology, enabling researchers to measure vegetation structure at a variety of temporal and spatial scales. However, this flexibility also increases the number of customizable variables, such as flight altitude, pattern, and sensor parameters, that, when adjusted, can impact data quality as well as the applicability of a dataset to a specific research interest. <br>To better understand the impacts that UAV flight patterns and sensor parameters have on vegetation metrics, we compared 7 lidar point clouds collected with a Riegl VUX-1LR over a 300 x 300 m area in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. We varied the altitude (60 m above ground, 100 m, 180 m, and 300 m) and sampling pattern (slowing the flight speed, increasing the overlap between flightlines, and flying a crosshatch pattern), and compared a variety of vertical vegetation metrics related to height and fractional cover. <br>Comparing vegetation metrics from acquisitions with different flight patterns and sensor parameters, we found that both flight altitude and pattern had significant impacts on derived structure metrics, with variation in altitude causing the largest impacts. Flying higher resulted in lower point cloud heights, leading to a consistent downward trend in percentile height metrics and fractional cover. The magnitude and direction of these trends also varied depending on the vegetation type sampled (trees, shrubs, or grasses), showing that the structure and composition of savanna vegetation can interact with the lidar signal and alter derived metrics. While there were statistically significant differences in metrics among acquisitions, the average differences were often on the order of a few centimeters or less, which shows great promise for future comparison studies.<br>We discuss how these results apply in practice, explaining the potential trade-offs of flying at higher altitudes and alternating flight pattern. We highlight how flight and sensor parameters can be geared toward specific ecological applications and vegetation types, and we explore future opportunities for optimizing UAV-lidar sampling designs in savannas.</p>
Tetiaroa Vegetation Sampling
<p>Measurement of seedling recruitment for four native woody species, the shade cover of four herbaceous plant species, and coconuts on the Motu Ahuroa in Tetiaroa were conducted by students with the UC Berkeley Island Sustainability Program. The four woody species we observed were Pisonia, Pandanus, Guettarda, and Ipomoea. For the herbaceous species, we observed Asplenium, Boerhavia, Microsorum, and Portulaca. Once we completed our data collection in each transect, we compiled our data to see the effect of rat eradication programs on plant growth.</p>
Vegetation sampling around Balma del Gai site (Moià, Barcelona, Spain); Spring 2023
<p>Vegetation sampling raw data conducted during May 2023, aimed to assess the diversity and abundance of vegetation in the vicinity of the Balma del Gai site, located in the Moià plateau, Spain. Various transects were conducted within the study area to systematically record and analyze the presence and frequency of different plant taxa.</p>
Data from: Flying high: Sampling savanna vegetation with UAV-lidar
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Spatial patterns of understory vegetation and soil in an Alaskan upland boreal forest fire chronosequence. Three sites located in Delta Junction Alaska. Soil sampled during summer 2007
In this study we used geostatistics to characterize the spatial heterogeneity of soil carbon and nitrogen pools, microbial respiration, microbial biomass, nitrogen mineralization, soil moisture, soil pH, depth of organic horizon and forest floor covers and understory vegetation abundances in three sites (1999, 1987 and 1920 wildfires) of a boreal forest chronosequence of Interior Alaska (near Delta Junction). Soil sampling and vegetation measurements occured during summer 2007.
Highly-replicated soil, topography and vegetation sampling across an old-growth tropical rain forest landscape
<p class="MsoNormal">Here we present data from highly-replicated sampling of soil, topography, and vegetation across an old-growth tropical rainforest landscape at the La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica. Samples were taken at 100 x 50 m spacing using an existing surveyed grid system. The 573-ha sample area spanned a variety of soil, topographic and vegetation conditions, including flat terraces on old alluvial soil, ridge tops and steep slopes on residual soil, riparian habitats and fresh-water swamps. At each of 1170 grid points we established a circular 0.01 ha quadrat (radius = 5.64 m). We sampled soil at 30-50 cm depth with a soil augur and collected a sample for subsequent analysis. We measured slope angle with a clinometer and slope direction with a compass. We measured stem diameter to <u>+</u>1 mm with a synthetic fabric diameter tape for all stems <u>></u>10 cm diameter (N= 5236) at 1.3 m from the ground or to ~ 6 m height if there were basal irregularities. We classified stems to life form (tree, palm, liana), and identified all trees and palms to species or morphospecies (N=266; lianas were not identified to species). We collected vouchers from all trees that we could not positively identify in the field (N=920).</p> <p class="MsoNormal">As a whole the data set presents an integrated view of soil, topography and vegetation across a mesoscale old-growth tropical rain forest landscape. The data have been used to refine a reserve-wide soils map for La Selva, and for a variety of papers analyzing the interactions of soil, topography and species distributions at landscape scales (see the 10 papers listed in the Related Works section below).</p> <p class="MsoNormal">There are no restrictions at all on the use of these data, and we think they will be useful for teaching and analysis projects as well as further original research applications. The data also provide a detailed benchmark of the status of old-growth vegetation in 1993-95 for one of the most intensively studied tropical rain forest landscapes in the world. Because the data are accurately georeferenced and detailed metadata on all methods are provided, this study could be repeated at any time to assess the trajectory of vegetation changes at La Selva, particularly in relation to local disturbances and changing regional and global climates. </p>
Distribution of vegetation sampling plots in four ecosystem types
<p>The table contains a number of bear cuscus presence points based on direct and indirect encounters (representative information from the local guide), as well as a number of plots constructed in each bear cuscus presence point in various ecosystem types in Bantimurung Bulusaraung National Park and Hasanuddin University Educational Forest, South Sulawesi.</p> <p>Three plots of 20 x 20 m were constructed in each bear cuscus presence point, with fifteen plots were established in each ecosystem type.</p>
Distribution of vegetation sampling plots in various ecosystem types
<p>The table contains no. of bear cuscus presence points based on direct and indirect encounters (representative information from the local guide), as well as no. of plots constructed in each bear cuscus presence point in various ecosystem types in Bantimurung Bulusaraung National Park and Hasanuddin University Educational Forest, South Sulawesi.</p> <p>Three plots of 20 x 20 m were constructed in each bear cuscus presence point, with fifteen plots were established in each ecosystem type.</p>
Highly-replicated soil, topography and vegetation sampling across an old-growth tropical rain forest landscape
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BES bird survey habitat features. This is a collection of the habitat features for the BES bird sampling points. Features include number of houses, proximity to trees, shrubs, grass, annuals, and other vegetation and physical features.
This dataset is associated with BES Bird Monitoring Bird Monitoring Project: ================= The BES Bird Monitoring Project is a breeding bird survey designed to find out what birds are found in the breeding season in Baltimore and where. Our monitoring efforts will show associations among block group socioeconomic variables, land cover, land use, and habitat features with breeding bird abundance, to provide information for land managers on possible consequences of land use changes on bird communities. A distinguishing feature of the bird monitoring at BES LTER, relative to other urban bird work, is the capacity for long-term monitoring of features at multiple scales through links to other parts of the project. Different processes influence habitat for birds at different scales, e.g. ongoing household level human decision-making at lot scale vs. block or neighborhood scale abandonment/re-development. Our project seeks to understand how these processes impact bird occurrence, abundance, and composition differ at the lot, block and neighborhood scale. The data consists of four major elements, Sites, Surveys, Taxalist, and Birds. Sites records the sites and their characteristics. Surveys describe the actual outings or sampling sessions. They describe the weather, the temperature, the sites visited. Taxalist provides the integration of speciaies abbreviations and common names, and Birds describes the actual sightings, linking to the other three tables. Attribute information: Here are the fields Surveys: site_id FK->Sites[site_id] survey_id survey_date time_start time_end observer wind_speed wind_dir air_temp temp_units cloud_cover notes Sites: site_id park_code park_district park_name point_code point_location park_acreage Taxalist: species_id common_name Birds: survey_id FK->surveys[survey_id] site_id FK->surveys[site_id] species_id FK->taxalist[species_id] distance bird_count notes seen heard direction time_class
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