Pre 1988 Cover Types of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho (Raster Version)
Spatial Analysis Center - Yellowstone National Park. 1990. Pre 1988 Cover Types of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho (Raster Version). Spatial Analysis Center - Yellowstone National Park
Plant communities of Yellowstone National Park were classified by their development since the last major disturbance into units called cover types. Following a major disturbance such as fire, vegetation progresses through a series of plant communities (seral communities) toward the climax community. This process (succession) can be divided into the following classes called cover types: recently disturbed, early, mid, late and climax stages. To date, only the cover types of forested vegetation have been worked out. Therefore, this raster map shows the forested cover types of the Yellowstone National Park area. Aerial photographs of 1:15,840 nominal scale from before the 1988 fires were interpreted with the help of ground truth transects throughout the park.
- Type
- Geospatial Dataset
- Authors
- Spatial Analysis Center - Yellowstone National Park
- Date of Issue
- 1990
- Publisher
- Spatial Analysis Center - Yellowstone National Park
- Units
- YELL
- Keywords
- 1988, climax vegetation, Forest, Habitat, Land Cover, Landscape Ecology, pre 1988, Vegetation