Saguaro National Park FFI Fire Effects Monitoring Database
Grissom P. 2013. Saguaro National Park FFI Fire Effects Monitoring Database
This database is fire effects monitoring data collected at Saguaro National Park in the Rincon Mountains of southern Arizona. The data were collected with standard NPS FMH protocols during spring/summer/fall field seasons by the fire effects monitoring crew out of Saguaro National Park from 1990-2012. Data collected from shrub/herbaceous transects are 50 meter point intercept data to obtain cover. Shrub density was also measured using brush belts along the same transect. Photographs are taken to document change. Data collected from 50 x 20 m forest plots include tree inventory to obtain density and basal area. Saplings and seedlings were measured in subplots. Fuel load was measured using Brown's method for inventorying surface fuels. An ocular estimate of canopy cover was added late in this period but were not entered into FFI. Due to decreased staffing and issues with some data collected, some protocols were dropped in later years, especially seedling and shrub density and shrub/herbaceous cover. Data still being cleaned up to remove errors. Use with care. See Notes section. Monitoring types include Ponderosa Pine (PIPO), Arizona white oak (QUAZ), Silverleaf oak (QUHY), Chihuahua Pine (PILE), and Douglas Fir/mixed conifer (PSME). In the data, Arizona pine (P. arizonica) is not differentiated from Ponderosa pine (P. ponderosa). Generally, in the Rincons, PIAZ are found below about 8,000' and PIPO above 8,000'. Plots were installed for prescribed burns, but some were also burned in wildfires.
- Type
- Generic Dataset
- Authors
- Grissom, Perry
- Date of Issue
- 2013-03-28
- Units
- SAGU
- Keywords
- Arizona, Biota, FFI, FIRE, Fire Effects, Fuels, Madrean oak woodland, mixed conifer, Monitoring, PINE, Rincon Mountains, Saguaro National Park, Vegetation
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Landscapes | Fire and Fuel Dynamics | Fire and Fuel Dynamics
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- Saguaro National Park FFI Fire Effects Monitoring Data
- Saguaro National Park FFI Fire Effects Monitoring Data
- Saguaro National Park FFI Fire Effects Monitoring Data
- Saguaro National Park FFI Fire Effects Monitoring Data
- Saguaro National Park FFI Fire Effects Monitoring Data
- Saguaro National Park FFI Fire Effects Monitoring Database