Five Years of SCAN Soil Climate Monitoring in Vermont

Villars, Thomas R.

doi:10.2136/sh2007.2.0027

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“…The plot elevation is approximately 1120 m (3696 ft) on the shoulder of Mount Mansfield, the highest summit in the state at 1361 m (4493 ft). At this elevation in Vermont, the soil temperature regime is considered to be cryic (Soil Survey Staff, 2014; Villars, 1996), although the closest SCAN station at 697 m (2300 ft) has a frigid temperature regime (Villars, 2007). Vegetation at this site is montane spruce–fir forest vegetation (Fig.…”

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Four Soil Orders on a Vermont Mountaintop—One-Third of the World’s Soil Orders in a 2500-Square-Meter Research Plot

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As part of the Vermont Long‐Term Soil Monitoring Project, five 50 × 50 m plots were established on protected forestland across Vermont. In 2002, ten randomly selected subplots at each monitoring plot were sampled. The 10 pedons sampled at the high‐elevation spruce–fir “Forehead” plot on Mount Mansfield were found to include soils of four taxonomic Orders: Entisols, Histosols, Inceptisols, and Spodosols. Soil forming factors such as climate, vegetation, and time are uniform, and podzolization is the major soil forming process, but small variations in parent material thickness and microtopography result in the presence of four orders. A 1‐cm difference in the thickness of a horizon can affect the placement of a soil in one of these orders.

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“…Basic soil characterization sampling was completed in 2000 with the assistance of the NRCS Kellogg Soil Survey Laboratory; KSSL Site and Pedon ID number S00VT015001 is associated with the plot reviewed in this article. NRCS Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) stations were also installed adjacent to two of the five sites in 2000 (Villars, 2007).…”

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