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Title: Classification of local- and landscape-scale ecological types in the Southern Appalachian mountains

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:422190

Five local ecological types based on vegetative communities and two landscape types based on groups of communities, were identified by integrating landform, soil, and vegetation components using multivariate techniques. Evaluation and several topographic and soil variables were highly correlated with types of both scales. Landscape ecological types based only on landform and soil variables without vegetation did not correspond with types developed using vegetation.

Research Organization:
Forest Service, Asheville, NC (United States). Southeastern Forest Experiment Station
OSTI ID:
422190
Report Number(s):
PB-97-123509/XAB; TRN: 70031338
Resource Relation:
Other Information: DN: Pub. in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 39, 215-229(1996); PBD: 1996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English