Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest: Orchid Demography

This data set consists of two tables. The first table contains life demography stages for two round-leaved orchid taxa, Platanthera macrophylla and P. orbiculata, over the years 2011-2015. The second tables contains leaf area measures by orchid and life stage. Data have been published in: Cleavitt, NL.; Berry, EJ, Hautaniemi, J, and Fahey, TJ. 2017. Life stages, demographic rates, and leaf damage for the round-leaved orchids, Platanthera orbiculata (Pursh.) Lindley and P. macrophylla (Goldie) PM Brown in a northern hardwood forest in New Hampshire, USA. Botany 95 (1): 61-71. These data were gathered as part of the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study (HBES). The HBES is a collaborative effort at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, which is operated and maintained by the USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station.