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Title: Vegetation survey of Pen Branch and Four Mile Creek wetlands

Abstract

One hundred-fifty plots were recently sampled (vegetational sampling study) at the Savannah River Site (SRS). An extensive characterization of the vascular flora, in four predetermined strata (overstory, Understory, shrub layer, and ground cover), was undertaken to determine dominance, co-dominance, and the importance value (I.V.) of each species. These results will be used by the Savannah River Laboratory (SRL) to evaluate the environmental status of Four Mile Creek, Pen Branch, and two upland pine stands. Objectives of this study were to: Describe in detail the plant communities previously mapped with reference to the topography and drainage, including species of plants present: Examine the successional trends within each sampling area and describe the extent to which current vegetation communities have resulted from specific earlier vegetation disturbances (e.g., logging and grazing); describe in detail the botanical field techniques used to sample the flora; describe the habitat and location of protected and/or rare species of plants; and collect and prepare plant species as herbarium quality specimens. Sampling was conducted at Four Mile Creek and Pen Branch, and in two upland pine plantations of different age growth.

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States); Dames and Moore, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
6969615
Report Number(s):
WSRC-RP-92-482
ON: DE93000495
DOE Contract Number:  
AC09-89SR18035
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; PLANTS; SURVEYS; SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; COMPILED DATA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; SAMPLING; WETLANDS; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; DATA; ECOSYSTEMS; INFORMATION; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NUMERICAL DATA; US AEC; US DOE; US ERDA; US ORGANIZATIONS; 540250* - Environment, Terrestrial- Site Resource & Use Studies- (1990-); 540210 - Environment, Terrestrial- Basic Studies- (1990-)

Citation Formats

. Vegetation survey of Pen Branch and Four Mile Creek wetlands. United States: N. p., 1992. Web. doi:10.2172/6969615.
. Vegetation survey of Pen Branch and Four Mile Creek wetlands. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6969615
. 1992. "Vegetation survey of Pen Branch and Four Mile Creek wetlands". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6969615. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6969615.
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year = {Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1992},
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