Title:

Tree census at Bisley Experimental Watersheds three months after Hurricane Maria

Author(s):

Zhang, Jiaying; Bras, Rafael L.; Heartsill Scalley, Tamara

Publication Year:

2020

How to Cite:

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Zhang, Jiaying; Bras, Rafael L.; Heartsill Scalley, Tamara. 2020. Tree census at Bisley Experimental Watersheds three months after Hurricane Maria. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2020-0012

Abstract:

This dataset includes species, diameter at breast height (diameter measured at 130 centimeters), tree height, crown category, damage category, and location of each stem in each plot at the Bisley Experimental Watersheds (BEW) in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico, three months after Hurricane Maria. Hurricane Maria made landfall near Yabucoa, southeast Puerto Rico, early in the morning on September 20, 2017, with maximum sustained winds of 155 miles per hour. Permanent plots were established at BEW in 1989 and have been censused every five years since then (Heartsill et al. 2010). Currently there are 94 plots (each 10-meter diameter circles), which are each 40 meters apart, available for the census. In addition to the measurements taken 3 months after Hurricane Maria, we are also providing diameter at breast height and height from the 2014 census.

Keywords:

tree diameter; tree species; tree census; hurricane disturbance; biota; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Inventory, Monitoring, & Analysis; Luquillo Experimental Forest; Puerto Rico; tropical forest; Bisley Experimental Watersheds; Caribbean

Related publications:

• Heartsill Scalley, Tamara; Scatena, Frederick N.; Lugo, Ariel E.; Moya, Samuel; Estrada Ruiz, Carlos R. 2010. Changes in structure, composition, and nutrients during 15 years of hurricane-induced succession in a subtropical wet forest in Puerto Rico. Biotropica. 42(4): 455-463. https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/36542 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7429.2009.00609.x
• Zhang, Jiaying; Heartsill Scalley, Tamara; Bras, Rafael L. 2022. Forest structure and composition are critical to hurricane mortality. Forests. 13(2): 202. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13020202

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