CTFS Data Model Documentation

Detailed documentation of the CTFS MySQL database for handling data from repeated measurements of forest census plots is available to the public at this SI Library web site. This supports the published article cited below, available at http://ctfs.arnarb.harvard.edu/Public/pdfs/ConditEtAl_FORECO2014.pdf. The Barro Colorado plot database is available to the public and can be downloaded in full from another Smithsonian archive (http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/data.bci.20130603). The documentation support a published article describing the database and its purpose (citation below).