Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Guilford Courthouse 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. Ecologists collected data on all distinct vegetation communities within the park and identified four natural and seven human-modified or successional vegetation associations (ecological assemblages of plants) within the park boundary. Two ecological communities may warrant special attention due to their relatively high global rank and their relatively high biodiversity. The Acidic Piedmont Mesic Mixed Hardwood Forest has a high diversity of understory plant and animal spring ephemerals, is a later successional forest, and occurs only on the steeper slopes that occur in the park. The Piedmont Small Stream Sweetgum Forest harbors the highest diversity of plant species of any community in the park and is the only wetland forest in the park. 3) Ecologists conducted an inventory of all vascular plant species in the park. NatureServe staff and park volunteers collected and vouchered 255 new species to add to the list of species already found at the park. We now count 353 documented species, varieties, or subspecies of vascular plants in the park (346 species). We estimate that between 76% and 92% of the vascular flora of the park is now documented.

Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Guilford Courthouse National Military Park

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