Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Gauley River National Recreation Area
1995-2009. Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Gauley River National Recreation Area
This reference is an assemblage of field data collected as part the baseline vegetation inventory for the park unit. Typical files here are vegetation plot data, accuracy assessment data, field photos, PDF showing locations of vegetation plots and accuracy assessment data, and other data for this type. The vegetation classification for GARI was based, in part, on multivariate analysis of floristic plot data. The WVNHP sampled 30 plots in 1995 for a study of riparian vegetation in GARI (Walton and Anderson 1997) and three plots in 2000 in an old growth forest in Carnifex Ferry Battlefield State Park adjacent to GARI. These two data sets were incorporated into our analysis and an additional 187 plots were sampled in or near the park during the growing seasons of 2006 through 2009. Vegetation of the park is classified in 23 associations of the USNVC, including 14 upland associations and 9 riparian and wetland associations. Prevailing physiognomic expressions include 17 forest associations, one woodland association, three herbaceous associations, one non-vascular association, and one sparse vegetation association. Two riparian associations new to the USNVC, the Riverscour Shrub Prairie and the (Virginia, Pitch) Pine Floodplain Forest, are recognized and described for the first time based on plots from GARI and from other rivers in West Virginia.
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- Assemblage
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- ERMN , GARI , VMI
- Keywords
- Accuracy Assessment, botanical survey, Classification, Geodatabase, Habitat Types, Imagery, National Vegetation Classification, NVC, NVCS, Plots, Releve, Relevé, Remote Sensing, USNVCS, Vegetation, Vegetation Inventory, Vegetation Map, Vegetation Mapping