Description
Citywide street tree data from the 2005 Street Tree Census, conducted partly by volunteers organized by NYC Parks & Recreation. Trees were inventoried by address, and were collected from 2005-2006. Data collected includes tree species, diameter, condition.
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 558,015 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.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Greenfield J, Osborne B (2020): New York City Tree Census 2005. United States Geological Survey. Dataset/Metadata. https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt/resource?r=nycity-tree-census-2005
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is United States Geological Survey. 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: c4e1739b-e225-4773-b2ca-b9dd90846c62. United States Geological Survey publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Metadata; species; Metadata
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| NYC 2005 Tree Census | https://www.nycgovparks.org/trees/tree-census/2005-2006 html html |
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| NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK MUNICIPAL FOREST RESOURCE ANALYSIS | https://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/trees_greenstreets/images/NYC_STRATUM_report_2007.pdf ASCII pdf |
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- User ●
- Point Of Contact
- Assistant Commissioner for Forestry, Horticulture, and Natural Resources
- 24 W 61st St, 5th Floor
- (718) 760-6800
- Point Of Contact
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8338-5134
- Point Of Contact
- Chief of Forestry and Horticulture
- 24 W 61st St, 5th Floor
- (718) 760-6466
- Point Of Contact
- biologist and information scientist
Geographic Coverage
New York City: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island The area was divided into 1,649 zones for recruitment of volunteers to collect the data.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [40.497, -74.255], North East [40.913, -73.701] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
165 tree species.
| Genus | Acer, Amelanchier, Betula, Carya, Catalpa, Cornus, Crataegus, Fraxinus, Ilex, Juniperus, Larix, Magnolia, Malus, Morus, Picea, Pinus, Pinus thunbergii, Populus, Prunus, Quercus, Salix, Taxodium, Tilia, Ulmus |
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| Species | Platanus acerifolia (London planetree), Tilia cordata (Littleleaf linden), Acer platanoides (Norway maple), Fraxinus pennsylvanica (Green ash), Pyrus calleryana (Callery pear), Acer rubrum (Red maple), Gleditsia triacanthos (Honeylocust), Acer saccharinum (Silver maple), Quercus palustris (Pin oak), Ginkgo biloba (Ginkgo), Abies balsamea, Abies concolor, Acer buergerianum, Acer campestre, Acer ginnala, Acer griseum, Acer negundo, Acer nigrum, Acer palmatum, Acer platanoides, Acer pseudoplatanus, Acer rubrum (Red maple), Acer saccharinum (Silver maple), Acer saccharum (Sugar maple), Acer tataricum, Aesculus glabra, Aesculus hippocastanum, Aesculus X carnea, Ailanthus altissima, Albizia julibrissin, Alnus glutinosa, Betula alleghaniensis, Betula nigra, Betula papyrifera, Betula pendula, Carpinus betulus, Carpinus caroliniana, Carya glabra, Carya illinoinensis, Carya ovata, Castanea dentata, Castanea mollissima, Cedrus deodara, Cedrus libani, Celtis occidentalis, Cercidiphyllum japonicum, Cercis canadensis, Chamaecyparis pisifera, Chamaecyparis thyoides, Cladrastis lutea, Cornus alternifolia, Cornus amomum, Cornus florida, Cornus kousa, Cornus mas, Corylus colurna, Cotinus coggygria, Diospyros virginiana, Elaeagnus angustifolia, Eucommia ulmoides, Fagus grandifolia, Fagus sylvatica, Fraxinus americana, Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Ginkgo biloba, Gleditsia triacanthos, Gymnocladus dioicus, Halesia carolina, Halesia diptera, Hamamelis virginiana, Juglans nigra, Juniperus recurva, Juniperus virginiana, Koelreuteria paniculata, Laburnum watereri, Larix laricina, Liquidambar styraciflua, Liriodendron tulipifera, Maackia amurensis, Maclura pomifera, Magnolia acuminata, Magnolia grandiflora, Malus pumila, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, Nyssa sylvatica, Ostrya virginiana, Oxydendrum arboreum, Paulownia tomentosa, Phellodendron amurense, Picea abies, Picea pungens, Pinus echinata, Pinus mugo, Pinus nigra, Pinus resinosa, Pinus rigida, Pinus strobus, Pinus sylvestris, Pinus virginiana, Platanus acerifolia, Populus deltoides, Populus grandidentata, Populus nigra, Populus tremuloides, Prunus cerasifera, Prunus persica, Prunus serotina, Prunus serrulata, Prunus virginiana, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Pyrus calleryana, Pyrus communis, Quercus acutissima, Quercus alba, Quercus bicolor, Quercus coccinea, Quercus falcata, Quercus imbricaria, Quercus laevis, Quercus laurifolia, Quercus macrocarpa, Quercus palustris, Quercus phellos, Quercus robur, Quercus rubra, Quercus stellata, Quercus velutina, Robinia pseudoacacia, Salix babylonica, Salix matsudana, Sassafras albidum, Sorbus alnifolia, Sorbus americana, Styphnolobium japonicum, Styrax japonicus, Syringa reticulata, Taxodium ascendens, Taxodium distichum, Thuja occidentalis, Tilia americana, Tilia cordata, Tilia tomentosa, Tsuga canadensis, Ulmus alata, Ulmus americana, Ulmus parvifolia, Ulmus procera, Ulmus pumila, Ulmus rubra, Ulmus thomasii, Zelkova serrata |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2005-01-01 / 2006-01-01 |
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Project Data
Citywide street tree data from the 2005 Street Tree Census, conducted partly by volunteers organized by NYC Parks & Recreation. Trees were inventoried by address, and were collected from 2005-2006. Data collected includes tree species, diameter, condition.
| Title | New York City Street Tree Census 2005 |
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| Identifier | https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Environment/2005-Street-Tree-Census/29bw-z7pj |
| Study Area Description | The streets and parks of the five boroughs of New York City: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island. |
| Design Description | As in https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Environment/2005-FH-Trees/h9ie-twq7/about, pdf link NewYorkCity_StreetTreeCensus2005_DataDescription.pdf |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Principal Investigator
Sampling Methods
Citywide count of trees that grow on New York City streets and are managed by Parks
| Study Extent | New York City; Citywide; 2005-2006 |
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Method step description:
- Full methodology is described here: https://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/trees_greenstreets/images/treecount_report.pdf
Additional Metadata
This is related to other NYC Tree Census datasets (1995 and 2015, to date). New York City tree censuses are conducted every 10 years.
| Purpose | Quantifying the enormous benefits of New York’s street trees, from pollution reduction to savings on air conditioning bills. Street trees provide almost $122 million in benefits annually to City residents and "are one of the best investments around." |
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| Maintenance Description | This is a legacy dataset that is maintained online but not updated. |
| Alternative Identifiers | c4e1739b-e225-4773-b2ca-b9dd90846c62 |
| https://doi.org/10.15468/fsryhj | |
| https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt/resource?r=nycity-tree-census-2005 |