{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["010:12"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Teresa J Brennan", "hasEmail": "mailto:tjbrennan@usgs.gov"}, "description": "The sampling design at each of the 149 mechanically masticated fuel treatment study sites consisted of a 10 x 100 m plot established within the treated area at the random point generated in ArcGIS and an adjacent 10 x 100 m control plot placed one meter inside the edge of untreated vegetation to avoid edge affects.  Each study plot was further subdivided into 10 100-m2 subplots with a nested 1-m2 quadrat placed along the top edge of the measurement tape.  Postfire study sites consisted of a 20 x 50 m plot that was equal in area to a fuel treatment study plot and was also further subdivided into 10 100-m2 subplots with a nested 1-m2 quadrat placed along the outer top and bottom edges of the plot.\nCover and density were recorded for each species within 1-m2 quadrats and a list of additional species present within the rest of the 100-m2 subplot was compiled.  Ocular estimates of cover were made and density was either counted, or estimated when there were more than 30 individuals in a quadrat.  First year seedlings were recorded separately from mature and resprouting individuals.  Comprehensive surveys for additional species were conducted in subplots of mechanical treatments and postfire plots; whereas controls were more limited and as such total species richness in these plots was potentially underrepresented.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.5066/F73776V9", "description": "Landing page for access to the data", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "application/http", "title": "Digital Data"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "description": "The metadata original format", "downloadURL": "https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.579fc27ee4b0589fa1cd569a.xml", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "title": "Original Metadata"}], "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_579fc27ee4b0589fa1cd569a", "keyword": ["Angeles National Forest", "Cleveland National Forest", "Los Padres National Forest", "San Bernardino National Forest", "USGS:579fc27ee4b0589fa1cd569a", "chaparral", "fuel treatment effects", "invasive species", "mastication", "southern California"], "modified": "2021-01-11T00:00:00Z", "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "spatial": "-119.85964775, 32.643124642, -116.479299058, 34.641425329", "theme": ["geospatial"], "title": "Survey data for chaparral vegetation in masticated fuel treatments on the four southern California national forests (2011-2012)"}