Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park
2000-2011. Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park
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 field work from this project added 237 new specimens to the documented plants at the park and brought the total list of species in documented in the park to 880. One goal of the Inventory and Monitoring program of the National Park Service is to document at least 90% of the vascular flora of the park. Using various estimates and assumptions, the estimate for total number of species in the park ranged from 704 to 944. Of all the natural communities present, the most globally rare communities in the park are five of those associated with the limestone glade and woodland complex. This includes the Central Limestone Glade (G2G3), Southern Ridge and Valley Annual Grass Glade (G2G3), Limestone Seep Glade (G2?), Interior Plateau Chinquapin Oak -Shumard Oak Forest (G3) and Interior Low Plateau Chinquapin Oak - Mixed Oak Forest (G3). These glades and woodlands are restricted to unusual geologic conditions (outcrops and shallow to rock limestone valleys) and are known only sporadically from the Nashville Basin in central Tennessee, the Moulton Valley in northern Alabama and widely scattered in central Kentucky.
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- Assemblage
- Units
- CHCH , CUPN , 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