Vegetation community monitoring at Horseshoe Bend National Military Park, 2011
Heath SC and Byrne MW. 2014. Vegetation community monitoring at Horseshoe Bend National Military Park, 2011. Natural Resource Data Series. NPS/SECN/NRDS—2014/702. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
In 2009, the National Park Service (NPS) Southeast Coast Network (SECN) Inventory and Monitoring Network began collecting vegetation community data as part of the NPS Vital Signs monitoring program. Information collected under this Vital Sign will be used to help managers make better-informed decisions by understanding trends and variability related to plant species, frequency of occurrence, percent cover, diversity, and distribution in the groundcover, shrub, and canopy strata. Within each stratum, vegetation communities were sampled using hybrid methods following the North Carolina Vegetation Survey nested-subplot design (Peet et al. 1998) within a circular plot similar to the Forest Inventory and Analysis protocol (Bechtold and Patterson 2005). This report summarizes vegetation community data collected at Horseshoe Bend National Military Park in 2011.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Heath, Sarah; Byrne, Michael
- Date of Issue
- 2014-09
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- HOBE , NRSS , SECN
- Keywords
- Vegetation Monitoring