Vegetation Plots of the Bonanza Creek LTER Control Plots: Species Count (1975 - 2004)

• Other Authors: BrianCharlton, JoyClein, JamieHollingsworth, TeresaHollingsworth
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Bonanza Creek LTERBoreal Ecology Cooperative Research Unit University of Alaska FairbanksP.O. Box 756780 FairbanksAK99775USA907-474-6364907-474-6251 2005
• Subjects: vegetation; succession; plant communities; boreal forest; taiga; fire effects; disturbance; Bonanza
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.18118; http://metacat.lternet.edu/knb/metacat/knb-lter-bnz.175.8/xml

This study is a survey of the vegetation of the 27 LTER sites in Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest. The 27 sites represent three replicates each of six successional stages of primary succession on the floodplain of the Tanana River and three stages of succession following wildfire on south-facing slopes in the uplands. Data include percent cover of all species and count based on twenty 1 m2 or 4 m2 plots. Plots in young stages of succession are remeasured every two years; those in older stages every five years. Some information on biomass in these stages is available. Although most sites were established in 1988 some sites have vegetation plots that have been sampled periodically since 1965.