Coweeta Synoptic Data from 49 sampling sites in the Upper Little Tennessee River Basin from 2009 to 2010 (diameter of LWD data)

This data was generated as part of synoptic sampling conducted at the Coweeta LTER between June 2009 and May 2010. 49 wadeable streams with low levels of development were sampled throughout the Upper Little Tennessee River Basin in the Southern Appalachians. Effects of riparian vegetative conditions on a suite of channel morphological variables were investigated: active channel width, variability of width within a reach, large wood frequency, mesoscale habitat distributions, median particle size, and percent fines. Diameter of large woody debris (LWD) in each stream reach were tallied in this specific dataset. At each site, a uniform 150 meter section of stream was surveyed. All wood in a reach exceeding 10cm diameter and 1.0m length were tallied. Observers kept a tally of the function, if any, of the large woody debris within the channel (e.g. pool formation, jam formation, bank protection, etc.). A whitepaper on the Synoptic field sampling activites can be found at: http://coweeta.uga.edu/publications/white%20paper%20summary%20of%20synoptic%20sampling.pdf