Vegetation Classification and Mapping at Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site [and associated files]
Perles SJ, Podniesinski GS, Zimmerman EA, Eastman E, Sneddon LA. 2007. Vegetation Classification and Mapping at Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site [and associated files]. Technical Report NPS/NER/NRTR—2007/079. United States Department of Interior, National Park Service, Northeast Region. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Vegetation classification and mapping was conducted at Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, creating a current digital geospatial vegetation database for the park. Sixteen vegetation associations, Alder Riverine Shrubland, Allegheny Hardwood Forest, Conifer Plantation, Dry Eastern Hemlock - Oak Forest, Eastern Hemlock - Northern Hardwood Forest, Eastern Hemlock - Tuliptree - Birch Forest, Japanese or Giant Knotweed Herbaceous Vegetation, Modified Successional Forest, Northern Hardwood Forest, Northern Red Oak - Northern Hardwood Forest, Reed Canarygrass Riverine Grassland, Sparsely Vegetated Cliff, Successional Old Field, Sugar Maple Floodplain Forest, Tuliptree - Beech - Maple Forest, and Wet Meadow, that occur within the park were identified and described in detail.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Perles, Stephanie; Podniesinski, Gregory; Zimmerman, Ephraim; Eastman, Elizabeth; Sneddon, Lesley
- Date of Issue
- 2007-03
- Publisher
- United States Department of Interior, National Park Service, Northeast Region
- Units
- ALPO , VMI
- Keywords
- Absence (Biodiversity), Classification, Distribution (Biodiversity), Mapping, Presence (Biodiversity), Vegetation