Using Digital Terrain Modeling to Predict Ecological Types in the Balsam Mountains of Western North Carolina
Odom RH and McNab WH. 2000. Using Digital Terrain Modeling to Predict Ecological Types in the Balsam Mountains of Western North Carolina. Research Note SRS-8. Southern Research Station, Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Asheville, North Carolina
ABSTRACT: Relationships between overstory composition and topographic conditions were studied in high-elevation (> 1300 meters) forests in the Balsam Mountains of western North Carolina to determine whether models could be developed to predict the occurrence of vegetative communities in relation to topographic factors. Size and number of woody species and topographic variables (elevation, landscape position, surface geometry, slope gradient, aspect) were measured on 0.10-hectare plots located across a range of mountainous …
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Odom, Richard; McNab, W
- Date of Issue
- 2000-07
- Publisher
- Southern Research Station, Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture
- Units
- BLRI
- Keywords
- APHN, Appalachian Highlands Network, BLRI, Blue Ridge Parkway, Carolina northern flying squirrel, discriminant analysis, Glaucomys sabrinus coloratus, northern hardwoods, potential habitat, remote sensing, SER, Southeast Region, spruce-fir, wildlife management