{
    "tag": 20537,
    "title": "2013-2014: Seasonal vegetation characteristics in a Spartina foliosa- and Salicornia pacifica-dominated salt marsh at China Camp State Park, California",
    "pubdate": "2017",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "DOI:10.5066\/F7HM56MX",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/pcmsc\/DataReleases\/ScienceBase\/DR_F7HM56MX\/SeasonalvegetationcharacteristicsinChinaCamp.faq.html",
    "format": null,
    "email": null,
    "descript": "As part of the San Francisco Bay Marsh Sediment Experiments and hydrodynamic investigations in San Pablo Bay and China Camp Marsh, California, vegetation sampling measurements were taken over several periods at numerous locations. This portion of the data release presents physical characteristics and percent cover data from vegetation plots sampled in China Camp State Park salt marsh (northern San Francisco Bay) in 2015, 2016, and 2017. One-meter quadrats (1m x 1m) were analyzed for percent cover of each vegetation species present, average canopy height, and maximum canopy height. The percent cover was done by visual inspection. A quarter-meter quadrat (0.25m x 0.25m) was then used for stem count and stem diameter measurements. Stem counts were only done for S. foliosa. These quadrats ran along the instruments used to collect sediment and hydrodynamic data, which is described elsewhere in this data release. This survey was conducted on January 23, 2015 (winter conditions) and again on June 6, 2016 (summer conditions). A separate survey was conducted on September 29, 2016 and May 3, 2017, to measure the length, width, and spacing of S. foliosa leaves. Data collected are provided as a comma-delimited spreadsheet (.csv).",
    "lang": null,
    "journal": null,
    "pwid": null,
    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Lacy, Jessica R.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Foster-Martinez, Madeline R.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Ferner, Matthew",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Deck, Anna",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Allen, Rachel M.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Ferreira, Joanne C. T.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "O'Neill, Andrea C.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
    "index_term": [
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "1266",
            "name": "vegetation",
            "scope": "Plant life or general plant cover in an area."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "1326",
            "name": "wetland ecosystems",
            "scope": "Ecosystems whose soil is saturated for long periods seasonally or continuously, including marshes, swamps, and ephemeral ponds.  More detailed terms for wetlands can be selected from the FGDC Wetland Classification <http:\/\/fgdc.gov\/standards\/status\/sub3_4.html>."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "007",
            "name": "environment",
            "scope": "Environmental resources, protection and conservation, for example environmental pollution, waste storage and treatment, environmental impact assessment, monitoring environmental risk, nature reserves, landscape, water quality, air quality, environmental modeling"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "148",
            "name": "marsh",
            "scope": "a wetland characterized by herbaceous plants."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 62,
            "code": "BC-435",
            "name": "Emergent Tidal Marsh",
            "scope": "Biotic Subclass: Communities dominated by emergent, halophytic, herbaceous vegetation (with occasional woody forbs or shrubs) along low-wave-energy, intertidal areas of estuaries and rivers. ..."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 62,
            "code": "BC-571",
            "name": "Low and Intermediate Salt Marsh",
            "scope": "Biotic Group: Salt marshes that are regularly flooded by tides so as to support characteristic halophytic vegetation (e.g., Spartina alterniflora). ..."
        }
    ],
    "place_term": [],
    "image": [
        {
            "name": "https:\/\/www.sciencebase.gov\/catalog\/file\/get\/59ee5016e4b0220bbd976242?name=VegetationCharacteristicsSamplingArea.png&allowOpen=true",
            "description": "image showing area of vegetation sampling"
        }
    ],
    "fan": [
        "2014-678-FA",
        "2016-632-FA"
    ]
}