Measurements of coarse woody debris at the Coweeta LTER Terrestrial Gradient Sites, Coweeta Hydrological Laboratory, Otto, NC from 2003 to 2014

The five Terrestrial Gradient sites were established in the early 1990s as part of the 1990 Coweeta LTER Renewal. The original terrestrial gradient sites were 20 x 40-m. In the late 1990s the plots were expanded to 80 x 80-m and later (around 1998) they were slope-corrected by Clark's lab using survey equipment. In this study, coarse woody debris (CWD) was measured in each of the five terrestrial gradient plots at the Coweeta Hydrologic Lab from 2003 through 2014. The length, diameters, and decay class of coarse wood were measured within each of the plots.