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
Plot Quality Fields:
Plot Validation Level
(2) classification plot: sufficient for inclusion in a classification revision
Overall Plot Vegetation Fields:
Field Height
40
m
Tree Cover
50
%
Shrub Cover
50
%
Field Cover
50
%
Nonvascular Cover
50
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
A Quercus montana and heath dominated forest on a horizontally (mainly) convex slope with a mineral soil. The relatively young trees, dense heath and presence of Pinus rigida, together with fire scars and charcoal on rotting wood clearly indicate a pyrogenic community, and the importance of slope shape and steepness in producing this community. This community exists here only in the steep section of the spur ridge crest, giving way suddenly to mesic, richer forests on all sides as slope changes to straight or concave and/or less steep. There is a recruitment by Quercus montana, Quercus rubra and Acer rubrum.
Measured trees in plot (dbh in cm.): Quercus montana (38,32,40).
Oi1: 0.5-1 cm thick
Oi2: 0-1 cm thick
Oe: 2-6 cm thick; brown
Oa: 1-3 cm thick; blackish
A(?): 20+ cm thick; vgrl, we/me/abk, vfr; cream-pinkish brown, very gravelly and small cobbley and channery, becoming slightly less stony with depth