Classification of Great Basin Plant Communities Occurring on Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.

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Abstract:

In 1996, staff with Dugway Proving Ground DPG and the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory CERL launched a project to classify and describe plant communities occurring at DPG. The goal of the project was to use field data to derive a plant community classification system specific to DPG. The classification followed, with certain modifications, the framework of the Nature Conservancys Standardized National Vegetation Classification System SNVCS. The SNVCS is a hierarchical system that summarizes plant communities at four physiognomic and two florist levels. A total of 500 releves were inventoried during the summers of 1996 and 1997. The field data were subjected to several multivariate classification techniques, including hierarchical and non hierarchical cluster analysis, and multi-dimensional scaling. Four physiognomic classes, 5 formations, 17 alliances, and 26 associations were identified at DPG. The results of the derived classification will subsequently be used to assist in mapping the vegetative communities at DPG

Author(s):
Emrick, Verl ; Hill, Alison
Author Organization(s):
CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING RESEARCH LAB (ARMY) CHAMPAIGN IL
Descriptive Note:
Final rept.,
Supplementary Note:
DOI: 10.21236/ADA360939
Pagination:
0056

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DOCUMENT & CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY

Distribution:
Approved For Public Release

RECORD

Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Report Number(s):
CERL-TR-99/30
Monitor Series:
CERL
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_6.4.1_Secure Information Exchange; JCA_4.7.2_Installation Services; JCA_4.7_Base and Installations Support; JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_6_Net Centric; JCA_8_Building Partnerships; JCA_6.4_Information Assurance; JCA_1.2_Force Preparation; JCA_1_Force Support; JCA_1.2.3_Educating; JCA_8.2_Shape; JCA_3_Force Application; JCA_3.2_Engagement; JCA_8.1_Communicate; JCA_4.6_Engineering; JCA_1.2.7_Experimentation; JCA_8.1.1_Inform Domestic and Foreign Audiences; JCA_3.2.1_Kinetic Means; JCA_8.2.4_Leverage Capacities and Capabilities of Security Establishments
Modernization Areas:
AI and Machine Learning
Communities of Interest:
Weapons Technologies
Descriptor(s):
*NATURAL RESOURCES, *CLASSIFICATION, *PLANTS(BOTANY), ARMY RESEARCH, MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS, CLUSTERING, CONSTRUCTION, ENGINEERING, SCALING FACTOR, VEGETATION, HIERARCHIES, BASINS(GEOGRAPHIC), MULTIPURPOSE, UTAH
Field(s)/Group(s):
Biology
Keyword(s):
DUGWAY PROVING GROUND
Report Date:
1999 Mar 01
Creation Date:
1999 Mar 31