Document Type
Data
Publication Date
3-27-2025
Abstract
Due to a unique set of circumstances, we were able to excavate an entire spruce (Picea) forest in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, USA, which was buried in the early Holocene (9928 ± 133 uncalibrated 14C years bp). Trees ranged from < 5 cm to > 50 cm in diameter, and dominants were approximately 9 m tall. The stand was multi-aged, with a number of trees over 120 years old. Well-preserved stem cross-sections were recovered, the entire stand was mapped, and field diameter measurements were made on most trees. Data from all stem cross sections are included here, including some that were not used by the authors of Pregitzer et al. (2000; citation below).
Recommended Citation
Pregitzer, K.
(2025).
Gribben buried forest site map and tree measurement data.
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/all-datasets/57
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The National Science Foundation SGER program (DEB 9521148) and Michigan Technological University funded this project.
This data was used to support the following paper:
Pregitzer, K.S., Reed, D.D., Bornhorst, T.J., Foster, D.R., Mroz, G.D., Mclachlan, J.S., Laks, P.E., Stokke, D.D., Martin, P.E. and Brown, S.E. (2000), A buried spruce forest provides evidence at the stand and landscape scale for the effects of environment on vegetation at the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary. Journal of Ecology, 88: 45-53. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00432.x