The University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS) was founded in 1909.
Landscape ecosystems are a means of understanding the spatial patterns of and the functional interrelationships in forest ecosystems. Landscape ecosystem research is a multifactor, holistic approach to identifying, classifying, describing, and...
Starting in the summer of 1928, FC Gates led systematic measurements of forest vegetation with the Plant Ecology class until 1954. Some of the measurements were taken in randomly located quadrants within specific stands and taken in the same area...
Distribution of rodents in northern Michigan documented by Dr. Phil Myers, et al. We use museum and other collection records to document large and extraordinarily rapid changes in the ranges and relative abundance of 9 species of mammals in the...
Raw capture collected through live-trapping at FASET and control sites in adjacent forests. The research focus was specifically on the white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) in order to understand any population effects of the canopy...
This dataset represent the ice on and ice off dates for Douglas Lake in Pellston, Michigan. The first observations are from the 1930s and were intermittently documented until the mid 1970s. The observations are complete since then to current.
This data set includes daily year-round weather measurements and observations recorded at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS) from 1980-present. Parameters include maximum and minimum temperatures, precipitation, snowfall,...
Summary, monthly climate data for the winter period (October - April) at the University of Michigan Biological Station. Records begin in 1948, but consistent records begin in 1974. Temperature records, aggregated at the monthly level, include...
The dataset contains the annual growth, in mm, of over 200 red and sugar maple trees. All trees are located in established study sites in the vicinity of Ann Arbor or UMBS.
