Development of Keys to Associations - A Cost-Share Proposal to the National Park Service and the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service
Sneddon L. 2001. Development of Keys to Associations - A Cost-Share Proposal to the National Park Service and the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service. Northeast Temperate Network
We propose to develop descriptions and user-friendly keys to associations for A) the Lower New England l Northern Piedmont ecoregion and B) the North Atlantic Coast / Chesapeake Bay ecoregions. Our goal is to produce keys that do not rely on detailed knowledge of all plant species, but instead incorporate obvious environmental characteristics, selected prominent plant species, and other readily observed attributes that a reasonably competent field biologist would be able to interpret with a minimum of effort. Such a key is possible because although associations are based on plant species composition, their classification relies on environmental setting and vegetation structure as well. See the sample key produced for Assateague Island National Seashore in Appendix 1
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Sneddon, Lesley
- Date of Issue
- 2001
- Units
- NETN
- Keywords
- Associations, Development, facilitate, Inventories, keys, Mapping, Sampling, tools, Vegetation