Pinnacles National Monument FFI Fire Effects Monitoring Data
Forrestel A. 2011. Pinnacles National Monument FFI Fire Effects Monitoring Data
Fire effects monitoring data collected at Pinnacles National Monument from 1989 - 2011. Data collected include shrub and herbaceous plant cover, shrub density, tree density and basal area, fuel load, and photos. Fire effects monitoring data collected at Pinnacles National Monument which is located in the Gabilan Range on the east side of Salinas Valley in California. The data were collected during spring/summer/fall field seasons by the fire effects monitoring crew out of Point Reyes from 1989 - 2011. Data collected from shrub and/or grass transects are 30 meter point intercept data to obtain relative and percent cover. Shrub density data is also measured using brush belts along the same transect. Photographs are taken from each end of the transect to document change. Data collected from 50 x 20 m forest plots include tree inventory to obtain density and basal area, fuel load using Brown's method for inventorying surface fuels and biomass, seedling density, as well as all shrub transect methods for 50 m transects. When other methodologies were used, they are documented in the FFI database.
- Type
- Generic Dataset
- Authors
- Forrestel, Alison
- Date of Issue
- 2011-10-26
- Units
- PINN
- Keywords
- Biota, California, Environment, FFI, FIRE, Inland Coastal Range, Monitoring, PINN, Pinnacles National Monument, Vegetation