Description
Between 2017-2021, Mohonk Preserve inventoried vegetation in its old-fields and grasslands. The goal was to increase understanding and knowledge of the Preserve’s vegetation communities so informed management strategies could be developed. This data provides information on species composition; occurrence frequency; vegetation type (woody, forb, grass, sedge, etc.); species percent cover (dominance); and species listed, invasive, and pollinator importance status. Five fields have been sampled thus far: Spring Farm (SF, plots [n]= 96); Glory Hill (GF, n= 45); Testimonial Gateway (TG, n= 66); Brook Farm (BF, n= 36); and Pine Farm (PF, n= 27). Soil samples were taken from three sites in 2018: Spring Farm, Glory Hill, and Testimonial Gateway. All data collection occurred between the months of May and August. There are plans to add more plots to sites Brook Farm, Pine Farm, and a field that has not yet been sampled, Klein kill Farm. There are no immediate plans to resample Spring Farm, Glory Hill, or Testimonial Gateway.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 36,108 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Mohonk Preserve. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 12b18c27-d292-4aa6-a23e-246e14b0a443. Mohonk Preserve publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence
Contacts
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- Director of Conservation Science
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator
- Research Ecologist
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- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Research Associate
- Originator
- Research Collection and Citizen Science Coordinator
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- Field Technician
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- Field Technician
- User
- Director of Conservation Programs
Geographic Coverage
Data are collected from fields onsite at Mohonk Preserve in New Paltz, New York.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [41.741, -74.151], North East [41.802, -74.115] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2017-07-31 / 2021-08-24 |
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Sampling Methods
Data is collected by using transects and quadrats. Each site is divided into subfields; in each sub-field, 1-3 (depending on field size) 30-meter (m) transects are placed at either a random (SF, GH, TG) or chosen (BF, PF) location. Each transect rope is laid out in a southern (compass bearing 180°) direction. Along this transect, a 1x1 m quadrat is placed at 5 m, 15m, and 25 m along the western (right) side of the transect rope. Inside the quadrat each species is identified as low as possible in taxonomic rank; the goal is to species but sometimes there is only time to identify to genus or family. The percent cover for each species is then estimated using pre-measured cardboard squares (1-10%) as reference. The total live vegetation percent cover of a quadrat does not have to equal 100% (and often was greater) due to layering of vegetation. Bare ground and dead vegetation percent cover were also estimated within each quadrat. Each transect location is sampled twice, once in the Early Season (typically May-June) and once in the Late Season (typically late July-August).
| Study Extent | Data are collected from fields onsite at Mohonk Preserve in New Paltz, New York. |
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Method step description:
- Data is collected by using transects and quadrats. Each site is divided into subfields; in each sub-field, 1-3 (depending on field size) 30-meter (m) transects are placed at either a random (SF, GH, TG) or chosen (BF, PF) location. Each transect rope is laid out in a southern (compass bearing 180°) direction. Along this transect, a 1x1 m quadrat is placed at 5 m, 15m, and 25 m along the western (right) side of the transect rope. Inside the quadrat each species is identified as low as possible in taxonomic rank; the goal is to species but sometimes there is only time to identify to genus or family. The percent cover for each species is then estimated using pre-measured cardboard squares (1-10%) as reference. The total live vegetation percent cover of a quadrat does not have to equal 100% (and often was greater) due to layering of vegetation. Bare ground and dead vegetation percent cover were also estimated within each quadrat. Each transect location is sampled twice, once in the Early Season (typically May-June) and once in the Late Season (typically late July-August).
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 12b18c27-d292-4aa6-a23e-246e14b0a443 |
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| https://doi.org/10.15468/w2xbdx | |
| https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt/resource?r=mohonk-grasslands |