uid=HFR,o=lter,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org all public read doi:10.6073/pasta/5b3c0e8d81ab38af9e412c6c3878ffcb Tree Ring Data from Rooster Hill in Adirondack State Park NY 1828-2015 Neil Pederson https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3830-263X Daniel Bishop https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0394-5996 Researcher Javier Martin Fernandez Researcher Tessa Mandra Researcher 2023 English
<para>Is it possible to reconstruct aboveground carbon/biomass from tree rings? If so, how far back in time can researchers go when using tree-ring data in the reconstruction of past biomass? Answers to these questions will have a significant impact on our understanding of dynamics in the terrestrial carbon sink. Long tree-ring records of biomass can reveal intra-annual to annual to multidecadal variations that cannot be resolved by forest census data that is not conducted at annual time steps. Additionally, while these dynamics might be resolved using remote sensing, most remotely-sensed products are only two decades or less in length. By having long records of carbon biomass, we can then identify not only the dominant drivers of biomass, but how the importance of these drivers might change during different eras as environmental factors change (e.g., climate, air pollution, disturbance).</para> <para>To test these and other questions, we collected tree-ring records from two 30m radius plots set Rooster Hill in New York State. We chose this location because it has oak dominated mixed forests that can be compared to the long-term forests being studied for carbon dynamics at the Harvard Forest. We can convert these data to biomass using allometric equations and compare tree-ring inferred aboveground biomass to the census data going back in time to understand forest recovery and carbon dynamics in a heavily disturbance forest. </para> </section> </abstract> <keywordSet> <keyword>climate change</keyword> <keyword>community composition</keyword> <keyword>defoliation</keyword> <keyword>dendrochronology</keyword> <keyword>disturbance</keyword> <keyword>net primary production</keyword> <keyword>permanent plots</keyword> <keyword>tree rings</keyword> <keywordThesaurus>LTER controlled vocabulary</keywordThesaurus> </keywordSet> <keywordSet> <keyword>primary production</keyword> <keyword>populations</keyword> <keyword>disturbance</keyword> <keywordThesaurus>LTER core area</keywordThesaurus> </keywordSet> <keywordSet> <keyword>Harvard Forest</keyword> <keyword>HFR</keyword> <keyword>LTER</keyword> <keyword>USA</keyword> <keywordThesaurus>HFR default</keywordThesaurus> </keywordSet> <intellectualRights> <section> <para>This dataset is released to the public under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 (No Rights Reserved). Please keep the dataset creators informed of any plans to use the dataset. Consultation with the original investigators is strongly encouraged. Publications and data products that make use of the dataset should include proper acknowledgement.</para> </section> </intellectualRights> <licensed> <licenseName>Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal</licenseName> <url>https://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0.html</url> <identifier>CC0-1.0</identifier> </licensed> <distribution> <online> <url function="information"> https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf411 </url> </online> </distribution> <coverage> <geographicCoverage> <geographicDescription>Adirondack Mountains NY. Coordinates based on WGS84 datum.</geographicDescription> <boundingCoordinates> <westBoundingCoordinate>-74.52</westBoundingCoordinate> <eastBoundingCoordinate>-74.52</eastBoundingCoordinate> <northBoundingCoordinate>43.23</northBoundingCoordinate> <southBoundingCoordinate>43.23</southBoundingCoordinate> <boundingAltitudes> <altitudeMinimum>598</altitudeMinimum> <altitudeMaximum>598</altitudeMaximum> <altitudeUnits>meter</altitudeUnits> </boundingAltitudes> </boundingCoordinates> </geographicCoverage> <temporalCoverage> <rangeOfDates> <beginDate> <calendarDate>1828</calendarDate> </beginDate> <endDate> <calendarDate>2015</calendarDate> </endDate> </rangeOfDates> </temporalCoverage> <taxonomicCoverage> <taxonomicClassification> <taxonRankName>genus</taxonRankName> <taxonRankValue>Acer</taxonRankValue> <taxonomicClassification> <taxonRankName>species</taxonRankName> <taxonRankValue>rubrum</taxonRankValue> <commonName>red maple</commonName> </taxonomicClassification> </taxonomicClassification> <taxonomicClassification> <taxonRankName>genus</taxonRankName> <taxonRankValue>Betula</taxonRankValue> <taxonomicClassification> <taxonRankName>species</taxonRankName> <taxonRankValue>papyrifera</taxonRankValue> <commonName>paper birch</commonName> </taxonomicClassification> </taxonomicClassification> <taxonomicClassification> <taxonRankName>genus</taxonRankName> <taxonRankValue>Fagus</taxonRankValue> <taxonomicClassification> <taxonRankName>species</taxonRankName> <taxonRankValue>grandifolia</taxonRankValue> <commonName>american beech</commonName> </taxonomicClassification> </taxonomicClassification> <taxonomicClassification> <taxonRankName>genus</taxonRankName> <taxonRankValue>Picea</taxonRankValue> <taxonomicClassification> <taxonRankName>species</taxonRankName> <taxonRankValue>rubens</taxonRankValue> <commonName>red spruce</commonName> </taxonomicClassification> </taxonomicClassification> <taxonomicClassification> <taxonRankName>genus</taxonRankName> <taxonRankValue>Pinus</taxonRankValue> <taxonomicClassification> <taxonRankName>species</taxonRankName> <taxonRankValue>strobus</taxonRankValue> <commonName>eastern white pine</commonName> </taxonomicClassification> </taxonomicClassification> <taxonomicClassification> <taxonRankName>genus</taxonRankName> <taxonRankValue>Prunus</taxonRankValue> <taxonomicClassification> <taxonRankName>species</taxonRankName> <taxonRankValue>serotina</taxonRankValue> <commonName>black cherry</commonName> </taxonomicClassification> </taxonomicClassification> <taxonomicClassification> <taxonRankName>genus</taxonRankName> <taxonRankValue>Quercus</taxonRankValue> <taxonomicClassification> <taxonRankName>species</taxonRankName> <taxonRankValue>rubra</taxonRankValue> <commonName>northern red oak</commonName> </taxonomicClassification> </taxonomicClassification> </taxonomicCoverage> </coverage> <maintenance> <description> <para>complete</para> </description> </maintenance> <contact> <positionName>Information Manager</positionName> <organizationName>Harvard Forest</organizationName> <address> <deliveryPoint>324 North Main Street</deliveryPoint> <city>Petersham</city> <administrativeArea>MA</administrativeArea> <postalCode>01366</postalCode> <country>USA</country> </address> <phone phonetype="voice">(978) 724-3302</phone> <electronicMailAddress>hf-im@lists.fas.harvard.edu</electronicMailAddress> </contact> <publisher> <organizationName>Harvard Forest</organizationName> <address> <deliveryPoint>324 North Main Street</deliveryPoint> <city>Petersham</city> <administrativeArea>MA</administrativeArea> <postalCode>01366</postalCode> <country>USA</country> </address> <phone phonetype="voice">(978) 724-3302</phone> <phone phonetype="fax">(978) 724-3595</phone> <onlineUrl>https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu</onlineUrl> </publisher> <methods> <methodStep> <description> <section> <title>Vegetation and tree-ring data Vegetation and tree-ring data associated with this dataset were collected by the “PalEON Protocol”. Three plots were established in the EMS Plot where all trees greater than 10 cm diameter at breast height (DBH) in a 13 m radius were mapped (using distance and azimuth from plot center), measured for DBH, placed into canopy strata (dominant, co-dominant, intermediate, and suppressed, life status (live or dead), structural position if dead (snag, log, or stump hole), and cored. Two to three cores were removed from all trees sampled, live or dead, when possible; some were too rotten to core. Decay classes were determined for all deadwood (1 = recent to 5 = nearly soil) following Bunnell and Houde (Bunnell, F.L. and Houde, I., 2010, Down wood and biodiversity--implications to forest practices, Environmental Reviews, 18, pp.397-421) and surveys were made of saplings (all stems 2.5-4.99 cm DBH from plot center out to 5 m) and poles (all stems 5-9.99 in DBH from plot center out to 9 m). This protocol was repeated for 13-20 m from plot center, but only for trees greater than 20 cm DBH, to increase representation and possibly sample a higher proportion of old trees. Tree-ring measurements were taken from all usable cores and portions of usable cores for each plot. Some cores had too much rot or other issues to be useful. The occurrence of a missing or locally absent ring, where a tree did not fully form a ring on the side of the tree that was cored, is designated with a zero.
Tree-ring file formats Data are provided in both traditional Tucson and csv formats. Tucson files are organized by species where the species code is the first two letters of the genus plus the first two letters of the species. Tuscon files contain total raw ring width (.rwl), earlywood ring width (.ewr), or latewood ring width (.lwr). Tucson data can be read as a space-delimited file in most coding languages. In R, package dplR has built-in function read.rwl that converts .rwl files to a data frame (rows become years; columns become ring-width series). For more information on the Tucson data format, please see: Brewer, P.W., Murphy, D. and Jansma, E., 2011. TRiCYCLE: a universal conversion tool for digital tree-ring data. Tree-Ring Research, 67(2), pp.135-144.
Notes about the data Years were identified where ring coloration and width appeared to indicate that the trees had been defoliated in ways similar to the way Lymantria dispar defoliated trees at the Harvard Forest in 1981. Similar rings had been observed throughout southeastern New York state and in Massachusetts, but had not been seen in the Adirondack Mountains. These observations were recorded for future analysis. RH1 Trees 11 and 33 (ACRU) are missing from the ring-width files. The causes of the missing data are accounted for in the “comments” column of the field notes file (hf411-02-tp-core.csv). RH2 Tree 99 (ACRU) was unaccounted for after fieldwork.
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National Science Foundation LTER grants: DEB-8811764, DEB-9411975, DEB-0080592, DEB-0620443, DEB-1237491, DEB-1832210. hf411-01-rh-tree.csv trees hf411-01-rh-tree.csv 14175 03ed0ddcf4be6ad68ecb8b151dd50660 1 \r\n column , https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/data/p41/hf411/hf411-01-rh-tree.csv site site and plot identifier TP1 Rooster Hill Plot 1 (Plot center at 43.23138 N, -74.52254 W) TP2 Rooster Hill Plot 2 (Plot center at 43.23090 N, -74.52666 W) NA missing value tree tree number tree number NA missing value species species ACRU Acer rubrum BEPA Betula papyrifera FAGR Fagus grandifolia PCRU Picea rubens PIST Pinus strobus PRSE Prunus serotina QURU Quercus rubra NA missing value date date of sampling YYYY-MM-DD 1 day NA missing value canopy canopy position codominant codominant dominant dominant intermediate intermediate suppressed suppressed NA missing value status alive, dead or non-standing tree position dead status is unknown Li live Lo log Sh stump hole Sn snag St stump NA missing value dbh diameter at breast height centimeter 0.1 real NA missing value distance distance from plot center meter 0.1 real NA missing value azimuth degrees from due north degree 1 whole NA missing value dist_top distance from center for top of dead log meter 0.1 real NA missing value az_top degrees from due north for top of dead log degree 1 whole NA missing value decay decay class 1 solid wood, recently fallen, bark and twigs present 2 solid wood, significant weathering, branches present 3 wood not solid, bark may be sloughing but nail still must be pounded into wood 4 wood sloughing and/or friable, nail may be forcibly pushed into wood 5 wood friable, barely holding shape, nail may be easily pushed into wood NA missing value 241 hf411-02-rh-core.csv core data hf411-02-rh-core.csv 25242 701b2fdf3a129d585ef80d3309b88ceb 1 \r\n column , https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/data/p41/hf411/hf411-02-rh-core.csv site site and plot identfier TP1 Rooster Hill Plot 1 (Plot center at 43.23138 N, -74.52254 W) TP2 Rooster Hill Plot 2 (Plot center at 43.23090 N, -74.52666 W) NA missing value tree tree number tree number NA missing value core core cardinal direction a no associated cardinal direction e east n north s south w west NA missing value species species ID of individual series ACRU Acer rubrum BEPA Betula papyrifera FAGR Fagus grandifolia PCRU Picea rubens PIST Pinus strobus PRSE Prunus serotina QURU Quercus rubra inner_year observed innermost year (not always measured) YYYY 1 year NA missing value outer_year observed outermost year (not always measured) YYYY 1 year NA missing value meas_inner year of innermost measured ring YYYY 1 year NA missing value meas_outer year of innermost measured ring YYYY 1 year NA missing value rings total number of rings measured number 1 natural NA missing value pith estimated number of rings from pith or at pith number 1 natural NA missing value gap location, in dates, when there is an observed gap(s) in mounted cores location, in dates, when there is an observed gap(s) in mounted cores NA missing value missing list of years with missing rings in series list of years with missing rings in series NA missing value false list of years with false rings in series list of years with missing rings in series NA missing value incomplete list of years with incomplete/partial rings in series list of years with incomplete/partial rings in series NA missing value reaction list of years with “reaction wood” in series list of years with “reaction wood” in series NA missing value defoliation list of years with evidence of possible defoliation in series list of years with evidence of possible defoliation in series NA missing value canopy estimated condition of tree during early growth years G gap N non-gap U unknown NA missing value comments core-specific comments core-specific comments NA missing value 369 hf411-03-rh-tree-ring.csv tree ring measurements hf411-03-rh-tree-ring.csv 3062187 299f4510fa2b33901d449a557210a2d2 1 \r\n column , https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/data/p41/hf411/hf411-03-rh-tree-ring.csv site site RH Rooster Hill Plot NA missing value species species ACRU Acer rubrum BEPA Betula papyrifera FAGR Fagus grandifolia PCRU Picea rubens PIST Pinus strobus PRSE Prunus serotina QURU Quercus rubra NA missing value core core number core number NA missing value type ring measurement type ewr earlywood ring width lwr latewood ring width rwl raw ring width year year of ring width YYYY 1 year NA missing value rw measured ring width millimeter 0.001 real NA missing value 96044 hf411-04-rh-field-notes.pdf field notes hf411-04-rh-field-notes.pdf 4758768 3b02959fc1098b978abb3bbdca51edcd none pdf https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/data/p41/hf411/hf411-04-rh-field-notes.pdf document hf411-05-paleon-protocol.pdf PalEON sampling protocol hf411-05-paleon-protocol.pdf 119799 f3b84b86405124b818d9f573762e6eac none pdf https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/data/p41/hf411/hf411-05-paleon-protocol.pdf document hf411-06-rh-rwl.zip Tuscon files hf411-06-rh-rwl.zip 217846 11d0047c9acf6fee279cfa9a37a80876 zip Tuscon ring data https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/data/p41/hf411/hf411-06-rh-rwl.zip document hf411-07-tuscon2long-paleon.txt R script to convert Tucson files hf411-07-tuscon2long-paleon.txt 2271 cc527423550db7a73df19a70d50fd71a none R script https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/data/p41/hf411/hf411-07-tuscon2long-paleon.txt script atmosphere historical plot long-term measurement historical paleological https://sites.nd.edu/paleonproject/