Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Cowpens National Battlefield
2000-2011. Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Cowpens National Battlefield
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. Ecologists collected data on all unique vegetation communities within the park and identified three natural and nine human-modified or successional vegetation associations (unique ecological assemblages of plants) within the park boundary. In addition, field workers used old literature and site analysis to identify a community type that existed during the Revolutionary War but probably no longer exists in the park. Two of these ecological communities merit special attention. The Floodplain Canebrake is a Coastal Plain and Piedmont community that is extremely rare due to suppression of fire and grazing and changes in land use within the range of cane and once occurred in the park but is no longer present here. The Piedmont Granitic White Oak - Black Oak Woodland is a particularly rare type that is known only from a set of locations in Virginia and one locality within the park at Cowpens. Ecologists collected and vouchered 91specimens, most of them species that are new to the park.
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- Assemblage
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- COWP , 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