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The Ontario Forest Biomonitoring Network (OFBN) monitors the health of mixed hardwood forests across southern and central Ontario. The data set includes: * Individual Tree Data: Decline Index and other measurements of visual stress symptoms of each tree within 111 plots * Decline Index: The Decline Index is a weighted average of tree stress symptoms (percent dead branches, percent slight or strong chlorosis (pale green-yellow leaves) and percent undersized leaves). Averaged for hardwood trees found within each of the 111 plots in each year. * Invasive Plant Species Presence Data * Salamander Data: numbers of individuals of salamander and other animal species in 14 plots * Tree Regeneration Data: monitors numbers of tree seedlings/saplings in 102 plots * Woody Debris Data: amount of woody debris on ground in 102 plots

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Name	Format	Description	Link
Original metadata (https://data.ontario.ca)	HTML		https://data.ontario.ca/dataset/122a9dec-e521-457b-bce8-4e7154096371
Original metadata (https://data.ontario.ca/fr)	HTML		https://data.ontario.ca/fr/dataset/122a9dec-e521-457b-bce8-4e7154096371
OFBN Decline Index	XLS		https://files.ontario.ca/moe_mapping/downloads/3Land/OFBN/OFBN_DeclineIndex.xlsx
Individual Mature Trees	XLS		https://files.ontario.ca/moe_mapping/downloads/3Land/OFBN/OFBN_IndividualMatureTree_data.xlsx
Invasive Plant Species Presence	XLS		https://files.ontario.ca/moe_mapping/downloads/3Land/OFBN/OFBN_Invasiveplant_data.xlsx
Salamander Data	XLS		https://files.ontario.ca/moe_mapping/downloads/3Land/OFBN/OFBN_Salamander_data.xlsx
Tree Regeneration	XLS		https://files.ontario.ca/moe_mapping/downloads/3Land/OFBN/OFBN_TreeRegeneration_data.xlsx
Woody Debris	XLS		https://files.ontario.ca/moe_mapping/downloads/3Land/OFBN/OFBN_WoodyDebris_data.xlsx
Plot Locations	ESRI Shape		https://files.ontario.ca/moe_mapping/downloads/3Land/OFBN/Plot_Locations.zip
README	TXT		https://files.ontario.ca/moe_mapping/downloads/3Land/OFBN/Readme_2021_EN.txt
README	TXT		https://files.ontario.ca/moe_mapping/downloads/3Land/OFBN/Readme_2021_FR.txt
Metadata Record	PDF		https://files.ontario.ca/moe_mapping/downloads/metadata/opendata/Forest_Biomonitoring_metadata_EN.pdf
Metadata Record	PDF		https://files.ontario.ca/moe_mapping/downloads/metadata/opendata/Forest_Biomonitoring_metadata_FR.pdf

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