Post-fire vegetation attributes in the Rim Fire, Stanislaus National Forest, California

These data document vegetation structure such as canopy cover, live ground vegetation, nectar source presence and abundance for transects surveyed throughout the Rim Fire boundary in the Stanislaus National Forest, California. The Rim Fire occurred in early fall 2013. Data were collected in 20 meter segments along a transect line in areas where butterfly surveys were conducted from 2014 to 2015. These vegetation data were collected each time a butterfly survey was conducted (five times per butterfly flight season).
Data were collected to examine relations between probabilities of detection, occupancy, and abundance of butterflies and vegetation covariates. Data were also used to examine the effects of vegetation and soil burn severity on vegetation covariates.
These data serve as environmental covariates for the data publication 'Presence and absence of butterflies in the Rim Fire, Stanislaus National Forest, California’ (Pavlik 2016). Vegetation data were collected at all locations where butterflies were sampled. Vegetation was sampled at five locations each year within each segment that is included in the butterfly data. Original metadata date was 7/8/2016. Minor metadata updates on 12/20/2016.