Vegetation data following the Fire and Fire Surrogate Study in western Montana

This data publication includes data used in "Vegetation dynamics following compound disturbance in a dry pine forest: fuel treatment then bark beetle outbreak" by Crotteau et al. (2020). These data represent overstory and understory vegetation present in the northern Rocky Mountains installment of the Fire & Fire Surrogate Study at Lubrecht Experimental Forest in Montana. Data were collected from 2002 to 2016 with a range of plot sizes, with sampling plot scale varying by attribute of interest from 0.0001 to 0.1 hectares. Data include overstory attributes such as tree density, stand basal area, stand volume, stand quadratic mean diameter, stand density index, stand canopy cover, and ponderosa pine composition. Data also include understory attributes such as seedling and sapling density, seedling and sapling ponderosa pine composition, species richness, species evenness, Shannon's diversity index, total cover, exotic cover, native cover, graminoid cover, forb/herb cover, and shrub cover.
Data were collected to support the Fire & Fire Surrogate Study and document vegetation dynamics over time following restorative fuel treatment and mountain pine beetle outbreak.
More information about the Fire & Fire Surrogate Study can be found here: https://www.frames.gov/ffs. Data were originally published on 10/08/2019. Minor metadata updates were made on 03/11/2024.