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PERSON(S) COMPLETING THIS FORM: E-MAIL ADDRESS:

DATA SET IDENTIFIER: Photo records from Luquillo Experimental Forest

PROJECT TITLE: LTER Photo Records

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The Luquillo Experimental Forest Long-Term Ecological Research program (LUQ) studies the significance of large-scale disturbances in tropical forested ecosystem . Photo records of two important hurricanes (1989 and 1998) during LUQ LTER 1 and 2 have been recorded and updated (in the case of Georges, 1998) on our Web site. We also keep record of some of our important study plots and the people and meetings held at our site.

LTER CORE AREAS: (Annotate all that apply)

Disturbance Patterns

LEF LTER 1 RESEARCH TOPIC: (Annotate all that apply)

Disturbance Regime

We define a data file as a component of a data set. A data set can have only one data file or more. Basically, different data files have different data structures or format.
DATA SET FILES (SUBSETS):

Data File No.	Data File Identifier	On-Line Filename	Starting Date	Periodicity of sample	End Period
1	Hurricane Hugo	lterdb9-HurricaneHugo.htm	February 1990	irregular	1992
2	El Verde Landslide	lterdb9-ElVerdeLandslide.htm	February 1989	irregular	September 1989
3	Miscellaneous	lterdb9-misc.htm	January 1995	irregular	Ongoing
4	1990-1991 Students and Meetings	lterdb9-people.htm	1990	irregular	1991
5	The Post Hurricane Georges Fixed-point Photo Page	http://luq.lternet.edu/research/thomlins/georges_photos/index.htm	September 1998	irregular	1999
6	Annual Meetings	AnnualMeetings.htm	18 January 2002	once	20 January 2002
7	The LUQ Canopy Trimming Experiment	CTE-photos.htm	1 January 2003	irregular	31 December 2003
8	Students' Research	StudentsResearch.htm	July 2, 2004	irregular	July 2, 2004
9	EVFS Building Inauguration	lterdb9-EVFSBldInauguration.htm	March 3, 2006	once	March 3, 2006

Last Update of this data set: July 2, 2004

RESEARCH LOCATION: Luquillo Experimental Forest after Hugo; El Verde Landslide ES-1 & others, LEF, P.R. (Photos after Hurricane Hugo); Luquillo Experimental Forest after Georges

INVESTIGATORS:

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS E-MAIL address

Jean Lodge	DJLodge@coqui.net
John Thomlinson	jthomlinson@lternet.edu

OTHER RESEARCHERS E-MAIL address

L. Walker	walker@lternet.edu
N. Fetcher	fetchern2@uofs.edu
N. Brokaw	nbrokaw@www.ites.upr.edu
B. Haines	haines@dogwood.botany.uga.edu
D. Schaefer	DSchaef53@hotmail.com
J. Porter	jhp7e@mail.evsc.virginia.edu
E. Melendez	emelendez@lternet.edu
A. Shiels	ashiels@lternet.edu

CONTACT PERSONS E-MAIL address Phone Number (Include area code)

D.J. Lodge

DJLodge@coqui.net

(787) 889-7445

SOURCE OF FUNDING (SPONSOR): LTER

ABSTRACT and METHODS: Within the photo records for the LEF, Data Files are for each location and research project. The prefix "H" is for hurricane damage records. The prefix "L" is for landslides records.

REFERENCES:

CROSS-REFERENCES (other data sets related to this one):

SAMPLE LOCATION: by slide/photo

STORAGE SITES: Terrestrial Ecology, CEER, P.R., Data Mngr.'s Cabinet DM333-01, Drawer #1

INVESTIGATOR'S ASSIGNED KEYWORDS: hurricane damage; landslide damage; landslide revegetation; herbivory following disturbance;

LEF LTER OFFICIAL KEYWORDS (See table): EL VERDE, DISTURBANCE, HURRICANE, LANDSLIDE, HERBIVORY, OTHER PUBLICATION FORMAT

PUBLICATIONS:

SITES DESCRIPTIONS:

Geographical positional system (GPS) Coordinates for each location:

location	latitude	longitude

VARIABLES (ATTRIBUTES):

FILE NAME OR #ABOVE (all in which the variable appears)	1	1	1	1
ABBREVIATION (as it appears on the data file)	1Photo numbers 1 - 2	1Photo numbers 3-9	1Photo numbers 10	1Photo numbers 11
NAME OF VARIABLE	Photographer: C. Gines	Photographer: D.A. Crossley	Photographer: D.A. Crossley	Photographer: D.A. Crossley
DEFINITION OF VARIABLE	J.M. Wunderle & Cayey Tri-Beta (power line cnt.) netting birds	Above ground Hugo Damage	Root damage from Hugo	Herbivory on Phytolacca driveway of El Verde station
UNIT	Date: 9/30/89	Date: 5/11/89	Date: 5/11/89	Date: 5/11/89
PRECISION	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
RANGE OR LIST OF VALUES	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
DATA TYPE	Slides	Slides	Photos	Photos
MISSING DATA CODES	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

VARIABLES (ATTRIBUTES):

FILE NAME OR #ABOVE (all in which the variable appears)	1	2	2	2
ABBREVIATION (as it appears on the data file)	1Photo number 12	2Photo numbers1-6	2Photo numbers 7-10	2Photo number: 11
NAME OF VARIABLE	Photographer: D.A. Crossley	Photographer: D.J. Lodge	Photographer: C. Gines	Photographer: C. Gines
DEFINITION OF VARIABLE	Termites on damage trunk	Damage patterns	Hugo damage, D.J. Lodge & Cayey Tri-beta	Hugo Damage, L. Walker
UNIT	Date: 5/11/89	Date: 2/_/89	Date: 9/30/89	Date: 9/30/89
PRECISION	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
RANGE OR LIST OF VALUES	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
DATA TYPE	Photos	Slides	Photos and Slides	Photos and Slides
MISSING DATA CODES	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

VARIABLES (ATTRIBUTES):

FILE NAME OR #ABOVE (all in which the variable appears)	4	4	4
ABBREVIATION (as it appears on the data file)	4Photo numbers 1	4Photo numbers 2	Photo numbers 1-7
NAME OF VARIABLE	Photographer: D.A. Crossley	Photographer: D.J. Lodge	Photographer: D.J. Lodge
DEFINITION OF VARIABLE	Summer Student	Graduate Students	Coordinating Committee Meeting
UNIT	Date: 5/12/90	Date: 1991	Date: 1990
PRECISION	N/A	N/A	N/A
RANGE OR LIST OF VALUES	N/A	N/A	N/A
DATA TYPE	Photos	Slides	Photos and Slides
MISSING DATA CODES	N/A	N/A	N/A

Observations: Photos are identified with a 4 to 8 symbols code as follows: f111..1, f = H(hurricane file) or L (landslide at El Verde  station file), 111..1=location code (ES1 for El Verde landslide 1 or EVMISC for El Verde miscellaneous)

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS:

Variable Name	Formula

DATA MANAGER USE ONLY

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: March 3, 2006
DATE OF LAST ENTRY: March 3, 2006
STAGE OF DATA SET MANAGEMENT (dates):
RECEIVED June 15, 1989; Sep. 7, 1990
ENTERED: FILED 10/2/90
ON-LINE N/A
REVIEWED BY RESEARCHER 9/7/90
FILING MEDIA:
NAME OF DOCUMENTATION FILE: SLLEFPHH.DIS
NAMED OF DATA FILE: N/A
NAME OF ON - LINE CATALOG: LTERDSET RECORD # : 9
DOCUMENT TYPE: PHOTOS & SLIDES
PRIORITY TO BE ENTERED: N/A

Rev. date of this form: 20 Feb. 2001