Hot Springs National Park FFI Fire Effects Monitoring Data
Ladner J and Drees D. 2023. Hot Springs National Park FFI Fire Effects Monitoring Data
Fire effects monitoring data collected at Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas. The data were collected during summer field seasons by the fire effects monitoring crew out of Ozark National Scenic Riverways from 2005 to 2022. Data collected from seven FMH-style 50 x 20 m "forest" plots in dry woodland natural communities (coded as HOSP) include; tree inventory to obtain species, density, and basal area, fuel load using 4 Brown's method transects for inventorying surface fuels and biomass (2005-2013), tree seedling species and density from a 5 x 10 m subplot, vegetative cover using the point intercept method (2007-2022) for all species below 2 m high every 0.3 m along two 50 m transects, species richness (2006-2022) using 1 x 1 m quadrats every 10 m along two 50 m transects and a total of 8 plot photos are taken at corners and midpoints along plot perimeter lines. Eight modified plots (coded as Sugarloaf North and Sugarloaf South) include most of the monitoring metrics as the larger FMH-style woodland plots but the plots are only 20 x 20 m and have fewer data points. Data collected from modified plots include tree inventory to obtain species, density, and basal area, fuel load using 2 Brown's method transects for inventorying surface fuels and biomass (2008-2022), tree seedling species and density from a 2.5 x 10 m subplot, vegetative % cover using the point intercept method (2008-2022) for all species below 2 m high every 0.3 m along two 20 m transects, and a total of 4 plot photos are taken from plot center towards the midpoints of each perimeter line.
- Type
- Generic Dataset
- Authors
- Ladner, Jamie; Drees, Dan
- Date of Issue
- 2023-03
- Units
- FIEC , HOSP
- Keywords
- Arkansas, Biota, BUFF, Buffalo National River, Environment, FFI, FIRE, Midwest, Monitoring, Vegetation