Long-term Experimental Forest Growth and Drought Data

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Resource Abstract:
These data were compiled in order to represent long-term (multi-decadal) forest growth across eight different experimental forests in the United States, each with replicated levels of density treatments, as well as an important drought index correlated to growth. Forests around the world are experiencing severe droughts and elevated competitive intensity due to increased tree density. These data can be utilized to not only examine differences in within-stand competition, as well the trends and impact of drought in different forests across a broad climatic gradient, but also the influence of interactions between drought and competition on forest growth. Growth is measured as a treatment level, annual basal area increment (BAI, mm2/year). The self-calibrated Palmer Drought Severity Index (scPDSI) was used as index of annual scale drought severity and related to growth patterns.
Citation
Title Long-term Experimental Forest Growth and Drought Data
Publication Date  Date   2017-01-18
Publication Date  Date   1880
Publication Date  Date   2013
Topic Category:  geoscientificInformation
Keywords:
Theme Keywords
Climate
Competition
Dendrochronology
Drought
Forest Density
Forest Health
Resilience
Resistance
Silviculture
thesaurus name >
Title None
revision  Date   2018-11-29
Place Keywords
Argonne Experimental Forest
Bartlett Experimental Forest
Black Hills Experimental Forest
Black Hills National Forest
Chequamegon National Forest
Chippewa National Forest
Cutfoot Experimental Forest
Fort Valley Experimental Forest
Nicolet National Forest
Superior National Forest
White Mountain National Forest
Flagstaff
Orono
Arizona
Maine
Minnesota
New Hampshire
Ohio
South Dakota
Wisconsin
thesaurus name >
Title Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
revision  Date   2018-11-29
Place Keywords
Birch Lake Experiment
Penobscot Experimental Forest
Taylor Woods
Vinton Furnace Experimental Forest
thesaurus name >
Title None
revision  Date   2018-11-29
Harvest Set Keywords
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC)
USGS Scientific Topic Keyword Keywords
Climatology
Forestry
Organization Keywords
National CASC
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Title https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/NCCWSC/Project/OrganizationName
revision  Date   2018-11-29
Landscapes Keywords
Forests
thesaurus name >
Title https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/NCCWSC/Landscapes
revision  Date   2018-11-29
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather Keywords
Drought
thesaurus name >
Title https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/NCCWSC/DroughtFireandExtremeWeather
revision  Date   2018-11-29
Science Tools For Managers Keywords
Data Visualization & Tools
thesaurus name >
Title https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/NCCWSC/ScienceToolsforManagers
revision  Date   2018-11-29
Theme keywords (theme):
Lake
thesaurus name >
Title Feature > Hydrologic Feature
publication  Date   2018-12-05
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Dec 05 04:18:58 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Experiment
thesaurus name >
Title Activity > experimental process
publication  Date   2018-12-05
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Dec 05 04:18:58 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
USGS
thesaurus name >
Title Organization > GOVERNMENT AGENCIES-U.S. FEDERAL AGENCIES
publication  Date   2018-12-05
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Dec 05 04:18:58 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Growth
Competition
Difference
thesaurus name >
Title Feature > Marine Feature
publication  Date   2018-12-05
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Dec 05 04:18:58 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Catalog
thesaurus name >
Title Resource Type > Repository
publication  Date   2018-12-05
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Dec 05 04:18:58 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Indexing
Data Visualization
thesaurus name >
Title Method > information processing
publication  Date   2018-12-05
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Dec 05 04:18:58 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Valley
Hill
Mountain
thesaurus name >
Title Feature > Physiographic Feature
publication  Date   2018-12-05
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Dec 05 04:18:58 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Level With
Density
Basal To
Scale
South
Resistance
thesaurus name >
Title Property > Measure
publication  Date   2018-12-05
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Dec 05 04:18:58 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Forest
Tree
National Forest
thesaurus name >
Title Feature > Environmental Feature
publication  Date   2018-12-05
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Dec 05 04:18:58 UTC 2018
purpose:
The purpose of this data is to report long-term growth data for eight different experimental forests, each with multiple silvicultural treatments, as well as an important index of drought that has been significantly related to growth. With this data the influence of forest density impacts on forest growth response to drought can be evaluated over a long-term continuous time series.
Resource language:  eng
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Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude  -111.7210006714
eastBoundLongitude  -68.6166992188
northBoundLatitude  47.7000007629
southBoundLatitude  35.2786979675
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individual Name John B Bradford
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