Post Logging Era Plant Successional Trends and Geospatial Vegetation Patterns in Canaan Valley, West Virginia, 1945 to 2000

From: Castanea | Date: December 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

Canaan Valley, West Virginia, contains one of the largest inland freshwater wetland ecosystems of bogs, marshes, wet meadows, and shrub and forested wetlands in the eastern United States. This study uses aerial photography and ground truthing activities to produce GIS-based vegetation maps for 1945, 1975, and 1997, in order to track changes in plant community types and to construct plant successional models. Between 1945 and 1997, there was an increase in the area covered by northern hardwood forests and Spiraea alba and Hypericum densiflorum shrub thickets, but only a limited ...

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