Site Metadata from the ASCC Network: North American Forest Conditions

Site-level metadata and ecological conditions from Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change sites across North America. The data summarize desired future conditions and management objectives related to resistance, resilience, and transition treatments. It was authored by Peter Clark and supports a manuscript published in Ecological Applications.

Use Cases

• Compare forest management objectives based on the resistance-resilience-transition framework.
• Analyze ecological conditions associated with different adaptive silviculture treatments.
• Model relationships between site-level metadata and desired future forest conditions.

Strengths

• Data supports a peer-reviewed manuscript published in Ecological Applications.
• Covers sites across North America, providing a continental perspective.
• Explicitly operationalizes the Resistance-Resilience-Transition framework.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Peter Clark via figshare.

Collection Method

Likely collected from operational Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC) network sites.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 15:01:15; freshness should be verified.

Geography

North America.