Description
This database includes all data related to the Vegetation Monitoring and Soil Quality Vital Signs protocols at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. These data are derived from a network of 20mX50m permanent plots from with the Vital Signs watersheds, and is largely vegetation structure, abundance, and diversity data, as well as soil physical and chemical properties. This database contains Pilot Year plots from 2015 that are outside of the current sampling design for Vital Signs.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20150924_Data_Dictionary.xlsx | XLS | Open resource | |
| GRSMLTVegMon_20240110.accdb | Access DB | Open resource |
Tags
- abies-fraseri
- acer-leucoderme
- acer-pensylvanicum
- acer-rubrum
- acer-spicatum
- aesculus-flava
- allegheny-serviceberry
- alternate-leaf-dogwood
- alternateleaf-dogwood
- amelanchier-arborea
- amelanchier-laevis
- american-basswood
- american-beech
- american-cancer-root
- american-chestnut
- american-elder
- american-holly
- american-hornbeam
- american-ivy
- american-mountain-ash
- american-spikenard
- american-squawroot
- american-sycamore
- aphi
- appalachian-highlands-network
- apple-shadbush
- aralia-racemosa
- arisaema-triphyllum
- aristolochia-macrophylla
- aristolochia-serpentaria
- asimina-triloba
- balsam-fir
- bear-huckleberry
- beechdrops
- beetleweed
- betula-alleghaniensis
- betula-lenta
- bignonia-capreolata
- bitternut-hickory
- black-cherry
- black-chokecherry
- black-gum
- blackgum
- black-locust
- black-oak
- black-tupelo
- blue-ridge-blueberry
- buffalo-nut
- bullbriar
- calycanthus-floridus
- canada-hemlock
- carolina-allspice
- carolina-holly
- carolina-silverbell
- carpinus-caroliniana
- carya-alba
- carya-cordiformis
- carya-glabra
- carya-tomentosa
- castanea-dentata
- cat-greenbrier
- chalk-maple
- chestnut-oak
- chickasaw-plum
- chimaphila-maculata
- christmas-fern
- cinnamon-clethra
- claytons-sweetroot
- clethra-acuminata
- common-catbriar
- common-greenbrier
- common-serviceberry
- conopholis-americana
- cornus-alternifolia
- cornus-amomum
- cornus-florida
- cross-vine
- crossvine
- cucumber-tree
- cucumbertree
- deerberry
- disporum-lanuginosum
- downy-serviceberry
- dryopteris-intermedia
- eastern-fir
- eastern-hemlock
- eastern-hophornbeam
- eastern-poison-ivy
- eastern-sweetshrub
- eastern-white-pine
- ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-forest-woodland-communit
- ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-vegetation-complex
- epifagus-virginiana
- euonymus-americana
- european-red-elder
- fagus-grandifolia
- false-acacia
- fiveleaved-ivy
- flowering-dogwood
- fraser-balsam-fir
- fraser-fir
- frasers-magnolia
- fraxinus-americana
- galax-urceolata
- gaylussacia-ursina
- great-smoky-mountains-national-park
- greenbrier
- grsm
- hairy-sweet-cicely
- halberdleaf-yellow-violet
- halesia-carolina
- halesia-tetraptera
- he-huckleberry
- hemlock-spruce
- herbaceous-greenbriar
- hickory-pine
- highbush-blueberry
- highland-doghobble
- hillside-blueberry
- hophornbeam
- horsebriar
- hydrangea-arborescens
- hydrangea-radiata
- ilex-ambigua
- ilex-montana
- ilex-opaca
- intermediate-woodfern
- inventory-monitoring
- jack-in-the-pulpit
- jacobs-lader
- kalmia-latifolia
- leucothoe-fontanesiana
- lily-of-the-valley-tree
- lindera-benzoin
- liquidambar-styraciflua
- liriodendron-tulipfera
- longterm
- long-term-monitoring
- lyonia-ligustrina
- magnolia-acuminata
- magnolia-fraseri
- magnolia-tripetala
- maleberry
- mapleleaf-viburnum
- mockernut-hickory
- moose-maple
- moosewood
- mountain-holly
- mountain-laurel
- mountain-magnolia
- mountain-maple
- mountain-silverbell
- mountain-sweet-pepperbush
- mountain-sweetpepperbush
- mountain-winterberry
- muscadine
- muscadine-grape
- new-jersey-blueberry
- new-york-fern
- northern-red-oak
- northern-spicebush
- northern-white-pine
- noyer-amer
- nyssa-sylvatica
- osmorhiza-claytonii
- ostrya-virginiana
- oxydendrum-arboreum
- parthenocissus-quinquefolia
- pawpaw
- picea-rubens
- pignut
- pignut-hickory
- pinus-pungens
- pinus-strobus
- pipevine
- platanus-occidentalis
- plots
- poison-ivy
- polystichum-acrostichoides
- prenanthes-altissima
- prickley-pine
- prunus-angustifolia
- prunus-serotina
- pyrularia-pubera
- quercus-alba
- quercus-coccinea
- quercus-prinus
- quercus-rubra
- quercus-velutina
- rattlesnakeroot
- red-elderberry
- red-maple
- red-spruce
- robinia-pseudoacacia
- rosepink
- roundleaf-greenbriar
- roundleaf-greenbrier
- rubus-canadensis
- sabatia-angularis
- sambucus-canadensis
- sambucus-racemosa
- sawbrier
- scarlet-elderberry
- scarlet-oak
- seedy-buckberry
- ser
- shadblow
- silky-dogwood
- silverbell
- silverleaf-hydrangea
- smallflower-blueberry
- smilax-glauca
- smilax-herbacea
- smilax-rotundifolia
- smooth-blackberry
- smooth-carrionflower
- smooth-hydrangea
- soft-pine
- sorbus-americana
- sorrel-tree
- sourwood
- southeast-region
- southern-balsam
- southern-blueberry
- southern-fir
- spicebush
- squarestem-rosegentian
- squaw-root
- strawberry-bush
- strawberrybush
- striped-maple
- striped-princes-pine
- summer-grape
- sweet-birch
- sweetgum
- sweet-pignut
- sweet-white-violet
- sycamore
- table-mountain-pine
- tall-rattlesnakeroot
- thelypteris-noveboracensis
- tilia-americana
- toxicodendron-radicans
- tsuga-canadensis
- ulmus-alata
- umbrella-magnolia
- umbrella-tree
- vaccinium-corymbosum
- vaccinium-pallidum
- vaccinium-stamineum
- vegetation
- vegetation-plots
- veg-plots
- viburnum-acerifolium
- viburnum-lantana
- viola-blanda
- viola-hastata
- virginia-creeper
- virginia-dutchmans-pipe
- virginia-snakeroot
- vitis-aestivalis
- vitis-rotundifolia
- wayfaring-tree
- wayfaringtree
- weymouth-pine
- white-ash
- white-bark-maple
- white-oak
- white-pine
- wild-hydrangea
- wild-sarsaparilla
- winged-elm
- woodbine
- yellow-birch
- yellow-buckeye
- yellow-fairybells
- yellow-locust