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A2 - Pierce's Pond
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Author Plot Code  |
A2 - Pierce's Pond
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| Author Observation Code |
A2 - Pierce's Pond
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| Original Data Location |
NJ Natural Heritage Program, NJDEP Division of Parks and Forestry, Office of Natural Lands Management, 22 S. Clinton Ave, Plaza Bldg 4, Fl. 4, PO Box 404 Trenton, NJ, 08625-0404
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| Confidentiality Status |
1 km radius (nearest 0.01 degree)
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| Latitude |
39.08
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| Longitude |
-74.9
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| Author Location |
Pierce's Pond
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| Location Narrative |
Site is about 0.4 mile west northwest of Pierce’s. From Pierce’s, travel south on Route 549 to Delsea Woods Mobile Home Park. Contact owners Jimmy and Sharon Russell for permission to access the site. Follow southerly road through mobile home park west to second grouping of homes, just west of Phragmites patch, about 0.7 miles from first grouping of homes. Site is on right about 500’ northeast of road.
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| State or Province |
New Jersey
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| Country |
United States
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| Shape |
Plotless
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| Permanence |
not permanent
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| Layout Narrative |
plotless - latitude and longitude coordinates approximate the survey area
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| Elevation |
1.8
m
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| Elevation Range |
0.61
m
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| Landscape Narrative |
Soil Description: muck over sand, pH 3.8, overlying interbedded gravel, sand and clay of the Unnamed Formation at Cape May.
Landscape Descrption: 0.4-acre pondshore community in good condition within a 2.2-acre coastal plain pond surrounded by good quality deciduous wetland forest.
Physiographic Province: Outer Coastal Plain
Watershed Code: 02040206230
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| Water Depth |
0
m
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| Percent Litter |
5
%
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| Percent Bare Soil |
35
%
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| Observation Start Date |
03-Oct-2002
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| Observation End Date |
03-Oct-2002
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| Project |
NJ Mark Wong
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| Cover Method |
Percentage (%)
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| Stratum Method |
National Park Service
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| Overall Taxon Cover Values are Automatically Calculated? |
no
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| Plot Validation Level |
(1) occurrence plot: sufficient for determining type occurrence
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| Dominant Stratum |
Herb
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| Growthform1 Type |
Herbs
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| Observation Narrative |
Community Type: coastal plain pond
General Description: Good quality sparsely vegetated herbaceous pondshore community occurring in the middle zone of a coastal plain intermittent pond. Community is dominated by Panicum dichotomiflorum (30%), with Cyperus erythrorhizos (20%), an unidentified moss (7%), Phragmites australis (5%), less than 1% Fimbristylis autumnalis, Hibiscus sp., Decodon verticillatus and Bidens connata, and about 40% unvegetated surface cover (35% bare muck, 5% litter and duff). Soil is muck over sand, pH 3.8, overlying interbedded gravel, sand and clay of the Unnamed Formation at Cape May. No standing water on survey date and soil is very firm, but moist throughout. Full sun exposure, very gentle slope. This community may be tidally influence.
Community Description: Patch dominated by Panicum on the E edge of a coastal plain pond among a thin edge of Phragmites. Cyperus erythrorhizos has finished going to seed and has a new batch of seedheads at the base of many small plants. No standing water but soil appears moist though very firm. Area seems 1-2" higher in elevation than adjacent area. Patch on the W side is very similar but more densely vegetated and taller.
Fauna: crow, blue jay, frogs
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