Liz LaPoint RMT December 2013 EVALIDator Liz LaPoint RMT December 2013

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Estimate Types: Area, Number of Stems, Volume, Biomass, Carbon, Net Growth, Mortality, Removals, Down Woody Material, Area Change

129 types of attributes All available inventories vs most recent inventories Population estimate vs ratio estimate (volume/acre etc)

All available vs Most Recent

Table Setup Context sensitive – read the descriptions

Context sensitive – depends on estimate you chose. Temporal basis - current, previous, accounting + permutations! Context sensitive Accounting – will only be appropriate for growth but may be option to select – it will use previous; if previous not available it will use current

Filters? Filter by radio button – plot or condition variables in the database Counties Ownership – group or specific class or national forest Stand Age Slope Forest type – group and specific Stand Origin Site Class Physiographic Class

Tree filters Species – group or specific Diameters Tree filters will not be used for area, numbers of seedlings, and those carbon component estimates that are not based on tree information.

Enter your own filter

Ex: you want to filter your table to only include trees that are dominant or co-dominant Database Variable: CCLCD – crown class code Values: 2=dominant, 3=codominant

Maine – volume all live trees on forest land, filtered for dominant and codominant trees Metadata on page Descriptions of variables involved Citation sql