Mountain pine beetle-caused mortality in thinned and unthinned ponderosa pine stands in the Black Hills, USA

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Below you will find a complete description of the files available in this data publication.

\Data\BlackHills_tree_data.csv: Comma-delimited ASCII text file containing ponderosa pine tree data from thinned and unthinned stands exposed to a large mountain pine beetle outbreak.

Variables include:

NAME = short name of stand (ALO1 = Allens' Overlook 1; ALO2 = Allens' Overlook 2; BELO = Bearlodge; BLSL = BL Stateline; BLVN = BL Very North; HCCE = HC Custer east; MYBC = my bobcat; MYBH = MY Bald Hills; MYCN = MY Castle north; MYCS = MY Castle south; NHCE = NH Custer Peak east; NHEF = NH experimental forest; NHNW = NH northwest; NHRM = NH Rochford minnex; NHS1 = Nh little spearfish 1; NHS2 = Nh little spear fish 2; NHSB = Nh stage barn; NHVP = NH veteran peak; NONA = no name; RDF1 = Red fern 1; and RDF2 = Red fern 2). Note: The genesis of these names relate to common names of geographical areas within the Black Hills and are used here as identifiers.

STANDTYPE = type of stand (trt = thinned stand; notrt = unthinned stand)

PLOT = sequential number of plots
Additional plot information: for stands BELO, BLSL, HCCE, MYBC, MYBH, MYCS, NHCE, NHEF, NHNW, NHRM, NHS1, NHSB, and NHVP plots 1-9 are TRT and plots 10-18 are NOTRT; for BLNV plots 1-6, 8, 9, are TRT and 11-18 are NOTRT; for MYCN plots 1, 2, and 5-9 are TRT (missing plots 3 and 4) and 10-13, 16-18 are NOTRT (missing plots 14 and 15); for NHS2 plots 19-27 are TRT and plots 28-36 are NOTRT; for NONA plots 2-9 are TRT and 10-17 are NOTRT (there was a plot 1 but could not tell from data sheet if it was treated or not so was excluded and there was no plot 18); for AOL1 plots 19-27 are TRT and plots 28-36 are NOTRT; for AOL2 plots 37-45 are TRT and plots 46-54 are NOTRT; for RDF1 and RDF2 numbers reversed, that is, for RDF1 plots 1-9 are NOTRT and plots 10-18 are TRT and for RDF2 plots 19-27 are NOTRT and plots 28-36 are TRT

TREE = sequential number of tree in plot

SPP = tree species (PIPO = Pinus ponderosa [ponderosa pine]; BEPA = Betula papyrifera [paper birch]; PIGL = Picea glauca [white spruce]; POTR = Populus tremuloides [aspen]; QUMA = Quercus macrocarpa [bur oak]; XXXX = plot with no trees

STATUSMBP = tree condition (0 = plot with no trees; 1 = live tree; 3 = mountain pine beetle-killed tree; 4 = dead other; note code 2 not used – when data was originally collected currently successfully attacked trees were coded as “2” but for analysis purposes since these trees were dead so they were recoded to “3”)

DBH = diameter at breast height in inches

Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:

Negron, Jose F.; Allen, Kurt K.; Ambourn, Angie; Cook, Blaine; Marchand, Kenneth. 2017. Large-scale thinning, ponderosa pine, and mountain pine beetle in the Black Hills, USA. Forest Science 63: 529-236. https://doi.org/10.5849/FS-2016-061

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Metadata_Date: 20200211

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Contact_Organization: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station

Contact_Person: Jose F. Negron

Contact_Position: Research Entomologist

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Address_Type: mailing and physical

Address: 240 West Prospect Road

City: Fort Collins

State_or_Province: CO

Postal_Code: 80526

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 970-498-1252

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jose.negron@usda.gov

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Biological Data Profile of the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001.1-1999