releve Virginia Division of Natural Heritage, see http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/natural_heritage/documents/nh_plotform_instructions.pdf
Overall Taxon Cover Values are Automatically Calculated?
no
Stem Observation Area
400
m²
Plot Quality Fields:
Plot Validation Level
(2) classification plot: sufficient for inclusion in a classification revision
Overall Plot Vegetation Fields:
Tree Height
31
m
Shrub Height
5
m
Field Height
5
m
Tree Cover
80
%
Shrub Cover
50
%
Field Cover
5
%
Nonvascular Cover
2
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
This plot is located about 200 m to the east of plot CHWM004, in another of the interlacing flatwoods depressions that runs through this part of the Chickahominy WMA. Vegetation composition of this sample differs slightly in having Quercus michauxii, rather than Q. pagoda, as the chief associate of Q. phellos. Just northwest of the plot is a deeper, more open depression in which several overstory oaks have died. As in plot CHWM004, scrambling and low-climbing Smilax rotundifolia is prevalent, possibly suggesting past disturbance.