Description
New York City’s tree inventory includes 592,130 publicly managed street trees. This represents 584,036 live trees and 8,036 standing dead trees tallied over the course of two summer inventory periods. The inventory contains 168 tree species with London planetree (Platanus acerifolia), Norway maple (Acer platanoides), callery pear (Pyrus calleryana), honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos) and pin oak (Quercus palustris) as the predominant species. 2015 Street Tree Census, conducted by volunteers and staff organized by NYC Parks & Recreation and partner organizations. Tree data collected includes tree species, diameter and perception of health. Ref: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Environment/2015-Street-Tree-Census-Tree-Data/uvpi-gqnh/data See also: https://www.nycgovparks.org/trees/treescount
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 652,169 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:
The City of New York, Department of Parks and Recreation (2016) 2015 Street Tree Census. NYC Open Data. https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Environment/2015-Street-Tree-Census-Tree-Data/pi5s-9p35
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: d1e9202b-7300-4712-868c-d25133fb6f08. United States Geological Survey publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Metadata; occurrence; Metadata
Contacts
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
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- 1 E 104th St
- Metadata Provider
- biologist & information scientist
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8338-5134
- Metadata Provider
- biologist and information scientist
- Point Of Contact
- Director of GIS and Analytics
- Olmstead Center, Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Geographic Coverage
New York City's five boroughs: Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [40.499, -74], North East [40.906, -73.717] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Woody trees (angiosperms and gymnosperms), of 131 distinct taxa, at genus, species, or subspecies levels.
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2015-05-19 / 2016-10-05 |
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Project Data
Street tree data from the 2015 Street Tree Census, conducted by volunteers and staff organized by NYC Parks and Recreation and their partner organizations. Tree data collected includes tree species, diameter, and perception of health. The data was made public on 2016-06-03.
| Title | New York City Tree Census - 2015 |
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| Identifier | https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Environment/2015-Street-Tree-Census-Tree-Data/pi5s-9p35 |
| Funding | Funded by NYC Parks and Recreation and partner organizations. |
| Study Area Description | The five boroughs of New York City: Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island. |
| Design Description | Participants used guidance provided by this data dictionary: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/api/views/pi5s-9p35/files/2e1e0292-20b4-4678-bea5-6936180074b3?download=true&filename=StreetTreeCensus2015TreesDataDictionary20161102.pdf |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Content Provider
Bibliographic Citations
- The City of New York, Department of Parks and Recreation (2016) Data Dictionary for the 2015 Street Tree Census. NYC Open Data. https://data.cityofnewyork.us/api/views/pi5s-9p35/files/2e1e0292-20b4-4678-bea5-6936180074b3?download=true&filename=StreetTreeCensus2015TreesDataDictionary20161102.pdf https://data.cityofnewyork.us/api/views/pi5s-9p35/files/2e1e0292-20b4-4678-bea5-6936180074b3?download=true&filename=StreetTreeCensus2015TreesDataDictionary20161102.pdf
Additional Metadata
DwC term - original dataset term (from StreetTreeCensus2015TreesDataDictionary20161102.pdf): scientificName - derived from 'providedScientificName' based on https://itis.gov taxonRemarks = spa_latin taxonRank - derived during data processing basisOfRecord - derived during data processing recordNumber = tree_id recordedBy = user_type decimalLatitude = latitude decimalLongitude = longitude county - derived from boroname stateProvince = state occurrenceRemarks - derived from tree_dbh (tree diameter at breast height) occurrenceStatus = health: Alive, Dead, Stump organismRemarks (recordRemarks) = health: Good, Fair, Poor vernacularName = spc_common kingdom - derived during munging geodeticDatum - derived from metadata verbatimLocality - derived from address locationRemarks - derived from zip code municipality = zip_city locality - derived from nth_name countryCode - derived during data processing license - derived from metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | d1e9202b-7300-4712-868c-d25133fb6f08 |
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| https://doi.org/10.15468/u3rrru | |
| https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt/resource?r=nycity-tree-census-2015 |