Building the United States National Vegetation Classification
Annali di Botanica - Coenology and Plant Ecology
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Abstract
The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Vegetation Subcommittee, the Ecological Society of America Panel on Vegetation Classification, and NatureServe have worked together to develop the United States National Vegetation Classification (USNVC). The current standard was accepted in 2008 and fosters consistency across Federal agencies and non-federal partners for the description of each vegetation concept and its hierarchical classification. The USNVC is structured as a dynamic standard, where changes to types at any level may be proposed at any time as new information comes in. But, because much information already exists from previous work, the NVC partners first established methods for screening existing types to determine their acceptability with respect to the 2008 standard. Current efforts include a screening process to assign confidence to Association and Group level descriptions, and a review of the upper three levels of the classification. For the upper levels especially, the expectation is that the review process includes international scientists. Immediate future efforts include the review of remaining levels and the development of a proposal review process.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Building the United States National Vegetation Classification |
| Series title | Annali di Botanica - Coenology and Plant Ecology |
| DOI | 10.4462/annbotrm-9261 |
| Volume | 2012 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Year Published | 2012 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Department of Environmental Biology - University La Sapienza of Rome, Italy |
| Publisher location | Rome, Italy |
| Contributing office(s) | Core Science Analytics and Synthesis, Core Science Analytics, Synthesis, and Libraries, GAP Analysis Project |
| Description | 9 p. |
| First page | 1 |
| Last page | 9 |
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