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Forest structure, regeneration, and soil data to support mangrove forest damage assessment on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, from Hurricane Irma (2018-2019)

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Publication Date
Start Date
2018
End Date
2019

Citation

From, A., Krauss, K.W., Rogers, C.S., Whelan, K., and Baldwin, M.J., 2020, Forest structure, regeneration, and soil data to support mangrove forest damage assessment on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, from Hurricane Irma (2018-2019): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9Q3IYOT.

Summary

These data support efforts to assess mangrove forest structural response to Hurricane Irma. Data were collected from within Virgin Islands National Park in St John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Datasets include measurements of forest inventory and vitality status, woody debris, regeneration assessment, and organic soil carbon.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Andrew From
Originator :
Andrew From, Ken W Krauss, Caroline S Rogers, Kevin Whelan, Michael J Baldwin
Metadata Contact :
Ken W Krauss
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Wetland and Aquatic Research Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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metadata.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		63.23 KB application/fgdc+xml
Densiometry.csv 987 Bytes text/csv
Seedlings.csv 1.85 KB text/csv
Soils.csv 8.17 KB text/csv
StJohn_Tree_Survey_Data.csv 34.21 KB text/csv
Woody_debris.csv 2.59 KB text/csv

Purpose

Establish and measure mangrove forest structural response to Hurricane Irma on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, and establish the capacity to track recovery and regeneration through a series of field plots.

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