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Bruce McCune

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This dataset contains biocrust lichen and moss cover at 186 plots at Horse Heaven Hills in Washington, USA. These data were measured by Jeanne Ponzetti in 1999 and remeasured by Heather Root in 2020. In addition to the biocrust data, we include site data such as elevation, location, wildfire history, and cover classes of dominant plants, rock and soil.
Lichen communities have been shown to be sensitive to changes in environmental pollution and climate change, making them good candidates for long-term monitoring of ecosystem conditions. Building upon prior efforts, a partnership among the National Park Service (NPS), the US Forest Service, and Oregon State University (OSU) has been formed to integrate existing lichen data across southwest, south-central, and southeast Alaska, and collaboratively develop and refine tools for monitoring climate change and air quality change. This project continues that partnership between NPS and OSU to conduct analyses and modeling of lichen communities for environmental monitoring purposes. Project objectives include developing...
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Data were collected to describe study site characteristics and epiphytic macrolichen abundance in upland and riparian forests in the McKenzie watershed in western Oregon. All plots were within the Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area. To describe the gradient from upland mountain forests below 1000 meters elevation down to riverine riparian forests we combined 62, 0.38 hectare plots sampled by Berryman with 30 additional plots sampled by Hutchinson.
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