Native and invasive vegetation and soil data in the eastern US

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By Insu Jo, Kevin Potter1, Grant Domke2, Songlin Fei3

1. Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University 2. Northern Research Station, United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service 3. Purdue University

Vegetation and soil data from the FIA Program, which includes vegetation attributes and soil and forest floor attributes of 288 permanent plots across the eastern USA

Version 1.0 - published on 24 Oct 2017 doi:10.4231/R73F4MSB - cite this Archived on 25 Nov 2017

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The dataset provides location, vegetation, and soil attributes from 288 plots. Location is described in latitude and longitude. To describe overstory and understory structure, we utilized total basal area (> 2.54 cm dbh) of trees and understory species cover (%) and richness. To describe soil and forest floor attributes, we used forest floor C and N concentrations and thickness; and mineral soil C and N concentrations, and pH for 0-20 cm mineral soil depth for each plot. 

Data was collected from U.S. Forest Inventory Analysis Program (USDA, Forest Service; https://apps.fs.usda.gov/fia/datamart/), and analyzed and presented in “Jo, I., Potter, K., Domke, G., and Fei, S. (2017) Dominant forest tree mycorrhizal type mediates understory plant invasions. Ecology Letters, in press.”

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  1. Forest Ecology
  2. Forestry and Natural Resources
  3. Forestry and Natural Resources (Dept)
  4. Invasive Species
  5. Mycorrhizal
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