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    • Pilot Terrestrial Vegetation Monitoring in the Southeastern United States, 2009-2010 - Data Package

    Metadata Updated: June 4, 2024

    Vegetation communities are the primary drivers for a range of ecological processes and are integral to the proper function of park ecosystems. They serve as the foundation for food webs and wildlife habitat for many species, and function as a carbon sink, produce oxygen, cycle nutrients and energy through an ecosystem, influence the local climate, improve water quality, and moderate flooding and erosion. Given the widespread anthropogenic influences in Southeast Coast Network (SECN) parks and the importance of vegetation communities, quantifying trends in plant cover, frequency, diversity, and distribution is vital to understanding the ecological processes and identifying stressors and their impacts. Evaluating trends in plant cover, frequency, diversity and distribution provides measures for assessing the ecological integrity and sustainability of southeastern ecosystems, and identifying the need for specific management activities on our park lands. The National Park Service Omnibus Management Act of 1998 and other reinforcing policies and regulations require park managers to establish baseline information and to provide information on the long-term trends in the condition of National Park System resources (Title II, Sec. 204). The vegetation-community monitoring data summarized herein is a tool to assist park managers in fulfilling this mandate.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    References

    https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2303037

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date May 16, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date June 4, 2024

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOI EDI

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date May 16, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date June 4, 2024
    Publisher National Park Service
    Maintainer
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    Identifier NPS_DataStore_2303037
    Data First Published 2024-04-22T12:00:00Z
    Data Last Modified 2024-04-22
    Category Data Package
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 010:24
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    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id 71d8b355-b1f2-447f-ab7c-943b4458ef16
    Harvest Source Id 52bfcc16-6e15-478f-809a-b1bc76f1aeda
    Harvest Source Title DOI EDI
    Homepage URL https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2303037
    Old Spatial -85.7492,28.6434,-75.4601,35.9065
    Program Code 010:118, 010:119
    Publisher Hierarchy White House > U.S. Department of the Interior > National Park Service
    Related Documents https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2303037
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash f9c94d0ba3eda4b06090ffbfefdba0924d6811a61d2e45a3629f5fd9dbc8f5b6
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    Temporal 2009-06-21T12:00:00Z/2010-09-30T12:00:00Z

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