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Northeastern Forest Moss-Polster Plots Vegetation Survey Data

• HF-ID: HF2022-06
• Category: Research Files
• Creator: Jackson, S.T.
• Date: 1990-1994
• Location: Adirondack Mountains NY, Massachusetts, Rhode Island
• Media: Paper
• Contents:
  • Field notes, field data sheets, metadata.

• Keywords: aerial photography, mosses, paleoecology, pollen, vegetation
• Abstract:
  • This project was aimed at understanding and testing models of pollen representation under closed forest canopy by comparing modern pollen assemblages from forest-floor moss-pollsters with vegetation composition in the immediate vicinity.
  • Field notes and data sheets for plots:
  • Adirondack Mountains (NY)
  • • Bloody Pond
  • • Bullet Pond
  • • Challis Pond
  • • Clark Pond
  • • Dave’s Lost Hollow
  • • Dual Pond
  • • Feeder Mountain Pond
  • • Fish Creek
  • • Lily Pond
  • • Munson/Howard Ponds
  • • Rhododendron Pond
  • Douglas State Forest (MA)
  • Matunuck Hills (RI)
  • 20 m basal area data for Eastern Adirondack Mountains, Fish Creek and Matunuck Hills sites

• Related Items:
  • Northeastern Forest Moss-Polster Plots Vegetation Survey
  • Research file: HF 2022-05 Northeastern Lakes Vegetation Survey Data

• Archives Location: Middle Room
• Access: Active
• Provenance: Donated by Stephen T. Jackson, June 2022