README.md

Plot-Book

• beginning of the book should be a thank you to Krista and Erika for giving me and other authors an opportunity to be a part of the cultivation of the book

Ideas

This is a file to record ideas for book content (very preliminary at this point).

• introduction

  • introduce readers to the site
    • why they should care
    • location, how long it's been running, acres, work that is being done, who is doing the work (briefly - will be going more in depths in methods)

• methods

  • field methods: describe site specifics, multistesm issues, person-hours.
  • data management:
    • Double data entry efforts, volunteer force: XXX hours (cite data managment CTFS guide)
    • Data review before being entered. We invested xx of hrs to check xxxxx records and cough XXX of errors
    • Data quality assessment: In-house curation before submitting to CTFS
    • Regular data backup, requested backups from central data manager, wrote R script for quick DQA

• physical environemnt

  • climate
  • topography
  • soils

• tree species (largest portion of book)

  • maps
    • plant ranges
  • stats and simple graphs on abundance, growth, mortality (by size)
  • architecture (e.g., allometries for height, biomass, sapwood,...)
  • leaf traits
  • age distribution from cores
  • climate sensitivity from cores ("quilt" showing multiple climate variables)
  • mortality rates through time & drivers of mortality

• biotic drivers of change (anthropogenic)

  • invasive plants
  • deer
  • invasive pests & pathogens -abiotic drivers of change
  • increased amount of rain
  • sudden change in temperature (was 70° one week and then 30° the next)

• carbon cycling

• conclusion

  • reiterate why the general population should care
  • include causes that are already put into place for forestry protection
  • set forth a cause on how to better care