Title:

Sierra Nevada contemporary reference site boundaries and corresponding remote sensing-derived canopy structure rasters

Author(s):

Chamberlain, Caden P.; Cova, Gina R.; Kane, Van R.; Cansler, C. Alina; Bartl-Geller, Bryce N.; Kane, Jonathan T.; Jeronimo, Sean M. A.; Stine, Peter A.; North, Malcolm P.

Publication Year:

2023

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Chamberlain, Caden P.; Cova, Gina R.; Kane, Van R.; Cansler, C. Alina; Bartl-Geller, Bryce N.; Kane, Jonathan T.; Jeronimo, Sean M. A.; Stine, Peter A.; North, Malcolm P. 2023. Sierra Nevada contemporary reference site boundaries and corresponding remote sensing-derived canopy structure rasters. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2023-0027

Abstract:

This data publication includes spatial data for 119 contemporary reference sites within the yellow pine and mixed-conifer zone of the western Sierra Nevada ecoregion as of 2018-2020. This ecoregion encompasses eastern and central California. Fire occurrence, fire severity, and management history datasets were used to identify and delineate the contemporary reference site polygons. We provide a set of spatially explicit forest structure metrics derived from high fidelity airborne lidar data for reference sites where concurrent lidar data were available. We also provide a set of forest structure metrics developed by the California Forest Observatory (CFO) to ensure reference data were available for all sites regardless of lidar availability. Vector spatial datasets are provided individually as shapefiles and combined as an OGC geopackage. Raster layers are provided individually as GeoTIFFs. All data are available in an ArcGIS Pro Package file which also includes a file geodatabase of the spatial data and author-defined layers. Also included is a document containing site descriptions (i.e., size, ownership, climatic setting, etc.) and a set of figures showing the distribution of climatic, topographic, and forest structure metrics for all reference sites grouped by dominant climate class as well as for each individual site.

Keywords:

biota; environment; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Ecology; Landscape ecology; Fire; Fire ecology; Fire effects on environment; Inventory, Monitoring, & Analysis; Biometrics; Resource inventory; map tiles; ecoregions; zones; climate classes; lidar; canopy structure; California; Sierra Nevada ecoregion

Related publications:

• Chamberlain, Caden P.; Cova, Gina R.; Kane, Van R.; Cansler, C. Alina; Kane, Jonathan T.; Bartl-Geller, Bryce N.; van Wagtendonk, L.; Jeronimo, Sean M. A.; Stine, Peter A.; North, Malcolm P. 2023. Sierra Nevada reference conditions: a dataset of contemporary reference sites and corresponding remote sensing-derived forest structure metrics for yellow pine and mixed-conifer forests. Data in Brief. 51: 109807. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109807
• Chamberlain, Caden P.; Cova, Gina R.; Cansler, C. Alina; North, Malcolm P.; Meyer, Marc D.; Jeronimo, Sean M. A.; Kane, Van R. 2023. Consistently heterogeneous structures observed at multiple spatial scales across fire-intact reference sites. Forest Ecology and Management. 550: 121478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2023.121478

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