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Vascular plant diversity and associated environmental variables along the Elwha River, Washington, 2005-2017

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2005-07-01
End Date
2017-08-31

Citation

Brown, R.L., Thomas, C., Cubley, E.S., Clausen, A.J., and Shafroth, P.B., 2022, Vascular plant diversity and associated environmental variables along the Elwha River, Washington, 2005-2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P97MINOT.

Summary

The data release presents observations of riparian vegetation, topography, soil characteristics, and ground cover in three river segments located above, below, and between the former Glines Canyon and Elwha Dams on the Elwha River, near Port Angeles, WA (river kilometers 2.5 to 31) to assess effects of dam removal on riparian vegetation. Vegetation data were collected before dam removal in 2005 and 2010, and after dam removal in 2013, 2014, 2016, and 2017. Vegetation data were collected from 100 square meter plots located on 15 cross-river transects spanning all riparian landforms. Soil samples collected in 2017 were analyzed for soil nutrients and texture. Topographic surveys were conducted to measure the elevation of vegetation plots [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Rebecca L Brown, Eastern Washington University, Dept. of Biology
Originator :
Rebecca L Brown, Cody Thomas, Erin S Cubley, Aaron J Clausen, Patrick B Shafroth
Metadata Contact :
GS-RMA-FORT Data Management, Fort Collins Science Center
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Fort Collins Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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Elwha diversity.xml
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View 		66.27 KB application/fgdc+xml
Elwha diversity_Environmental data by plot.csv 6.26 KB text/csv
Elwha diversity_Landform classification for plots sampled 2005-2017.csv 7.3 KB text/csv
Elwha diversity_Richness all years.csv 23.3 KB text/csv
Elwha diversity_Richness and sediment difference 2010-2017.csv 4.55 KB text/csv
Elwha diversity_Transect geographic coordinates.csv 1.31 KB text/csv
Elwha diversity_Vegetation by plot all years.csv 1.34 MB text/csv

Purpose

The data were collected to improve understanding of the effects of the removal of two large dams on vascular plant diversity along the Elwha River, Washington, USA.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P97MINOT

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