Yellowstone National Park FFI Fire Effects Monitoring Data

Smith B and Page J. 2017. Yellowstone National Park FFI Fire Effects Monitoring Data

Fire effects monitoring data collected at Yellowstone National Park, throughout the entire park. The data were collected during summer field seasons by the fire effects monitoring crew out of Yellowstone from 1979 - 2016. Data collected from vegetation transect are 50 meter Daubenmire frame data or 50 meter point intercept. Photographs are taken from each end of the transect to document change. Data collected from 50 x 20 m forest plots, 15 x 25 m forest plots, or 11.26 m radius forest plots include tree inventory to obtain density, basal area, canopy bulk density, fuel load using Brown's method for inventorying surface fuels and biomass, and seedling density.

Type
Generic Dataset
Authors
Smith, Becky; Page, Jessica
Date of Issue
2017-01-26
Units
FIEC , YELL
Keywords
Biota, Ecology, Environment, FFI, FIRE, Fire Effects, Idaho, Monitoring, Montana, Northern Rockies, Vegetation, Wyoming, YELL, Yellowstone National Park
Subjects
Ecological Framework: Landscapes | Fire and Fuel Dynamics | Fire and Fuel Dynamics

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