Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Field Plots Data Base for Vegetation Mapping

The descriptive plot data were collected for 39 sites whose vegetation represents a full spectrum of alliance types present within Agate Fossil Beds National Monument and its immediate surroundings. Physical description - Attributes collected for each site include: a plot number, a unique plot identification code, community name, field name, state, park name, quad name, map projection, datum, GPS file name, raw UTM coordinates, differentially corrected UTM coordinates, plot survey date, name(s) of surveyors, length, width, photo type, elevation, slope, aspect, topographic position, landform, surface geology, Cowardin System category, hydrology, surface material description, soil texture, soil drainage, leaf phenology, leaf type, and physiognomy.

Species - Individual species described at each of 39 plots is listed, one line per species, with the following information: Plot Identification Code, Numeric Species Code, Species Name, Species Cover (0=trace, 1=< 1%, 2=1-5%, 3=5-25%, 4=25-50%, 5=50-75%, 6=75-100%), Plantcode, and Strata Code (T1=emergent, T2=canopy, T3=sub-canopy, S1=tall shrub, S2=short shrub, H=herbaceous, N=non-vascular, V=vinae/liana, E=epiphyte).

Information for this metadata was taken from "biology.usgs.gov/npsveg/agfo/metaagfofield.html".