Cary Vegetation Study 1984 1985 OVERVIEW

The Cary Vegetation Study was a project established in the early 1980's by Charlie Canham, Mark McDonnell, Steward Pickett and others to describe the vegetation of the Cary Arboretum.The objectives of the project were described in the document titled: "RESEARCH PROPOSAL: The Vegetation of the Cary Arboretum" The proposed research has 4 principal objectives:(1) To quantify the variation in composition and structure of forest, field and wetland plant communities within the Cary Arboretum, including an ordination of the forest communities to identify major plant community types.(2) To examine the relationships between the vegetation of the Cary Arboretum and environmental and historical factors.(3) To provide an extensive data-base of information on the vegetation of the Cary Arboretum, keyed to the standard grid system.(4) To provide a network of sample sites that can be combined with existing vegetation maps, to provide an updated vegetation map based on the results of the analyses described in (1) and ( 2 ) above. The project was subdivided into three subprojects:1. A survey of upland fields2. A survey of forests, which established the permanent plots referred to as the "Cary Forest Plots"3. A land use history, which included interviews with people who remembered land use at the time that Mary Flagler Cary purchased the property The Cary Vegetation Study of 1984 & 1985 contains 7 data repositories:1. Cary Vegetation Study 1984 1985 OVERVIEW2. Cary Vegetation Study 1984 1985 CARY FOREST PLOT MISCELLANEOUS3. Cary Vegetation Study 1984 1985 CARY FOREST PLOT TREE RING DATA4. Cary Vegetation Study 1984 1985 CARY FOREST PLOT DATA SUMMARIES5. Cary Vegetation Study 1984 1985 CARY FOREST PLOT SOIL CHEMISTRY & TEXTURE6. Cary Vegetation Study 1984 1985 UPLAND FIELDS STUDY7. Cary Vegetation Study 1984 1985 LAND USE HISTORY The following publication was a culmination of the data collected in the 1980's:GLITZENSTEIN, J. S., C. D. CANHAM, M. J. MCDONNELL, AND D. R. STRENG. 1990. Effects of environment and land-use history on upland forests of the Cary Arboretum, Hudson Valley, New York. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 117: 106–122. The Cary Forest Plots were resurveyed in 2006 and results were published in:Katz, D.S.W., Lovett, G.M., Canham, C.D., & O'Reilly, C.M. 2010. Legacies of land use history diminish over 22 years in a forest in southeastern New York. Bull. Torrey Bot. Soc. 137: 236–251.Cary植被研究（Cary Vegetation Study）是由Charlie Canham、Mark McDonnell、Steward Pickett等人于20世纪80年代初发起的项目，旨在描述Cary树木园（Cary Arboretum）的植被状况。该项目的研究目标在题为《研究计划书：Cary树木园植被》（"RESEARCH PROPOSAL: The Vegetation of the Cary Arboretum"）的文档中已有明确阐述。本项目拟开展的研究共包含4项核心目标：(1) 量化Cary树木园内森林、旱地农田与湿地植物群落的组成与结构差异，同时对森林群落开展群落排序分析，以识别主要植物群落类型；(2) 探究Cary树木园植被与环境及历史因素之间的关联关系；(3) 构建一套依托标准网格系统进行索引的Cary树木园植被综合数据库；(4) 建立一套样点网络，可与现有植被地图结合使用，基于前述第1、2项研究的分析结果生成更新版植被地图。本项目划分为三个子项目：1. 旱地农田调查；2. 森林调查，该调查设立了被称为"Cary森林样地（Cary Forest Plots）"的永久样地；3. 土地利用历史研究，其中包含对曾亲历Mary Flagler Cary购置该地块时期土地利用情况的人员的访谈记录。1984年与1985年的Cary植被研究包含7个数据存储库：1. 1984-1985年Cary植被研究概况；2. 1984-1985年Cary森林样地杂项数据；3. 1984-1985年Cary森林样地树木年轮数据；4. 1984-1985年Cary森林样地数据汇总；5. 1984-1985年Cary森林样地土壤化学与质地数据；6. 1984-1985年旱地农田研究数据集；7. 1984-1985年土地利用历史数据集。以下发表的学术论文为20世纪80年代收集的数据的总结性研究成果：GLITZENSTEIN, J. S., C. D. CANHAM, M. J. MCDONNELL, AND D. R. STRENG. 1990. 《环境与土地利用历史对纽约哈德逊谷Cary树木园旱地森林的影响》. 《托雷植物学俱乐部通报（Bull. Torrey Bot. Club）》117: 106–122。Cary森林样地于2006年完成重新调查，其研究结果发表于：Katz, D.S.W., Lovett, G.M., Canham, C.D., & O'Reilly, C.M. 2010. 《纽约东南部一片森林中土地利用历史遗留效应随22年时间推移而减弱》. 《托雷植物学学会通报（Bull. Torrey Bot. Soc.）》137: 236–251。