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USGS:Biology arrow icon Biological Informatics Program arrow icon Vegetation Characterization Program arrow icon Valley Forge National Historical Park arrow icon Field Data for Plots

Field Data for Plots

  • Map of Vegetation Plot Locations "vafoplots.pdf" (170K)

  • Self extracting file containing ArcGIS shapefile of vegetation plot locations "vafoplot.exe" (81.2k)

  • Field Plots Data Metadata ( 27K)

  • Access Database: Field Data for Accuracy Assessment, Physical Descriptive and Species Listing Data

    • Populated with scientific and common names from Modified Version 2.0 of the PLANTS database. (5.33M)

  • Access Database: Field Data for Accuracy Assessment, Physical Descriptive and Species Listing Data

    • Populated with scientific and common names from Modified Version 3.5 of the PLANTS database. (1.26M)

    These data were collected by the Pennsylvania Science Office of The Nature Conservancy under Cooperative Agreement 4560A0019 and Cooperative Agreement 4560040025, Task Agreement No. 1 with assistance from the National Park Service. They are represented in two files.

    Physical Descriptive Data for Plots

    Data collected at 80 vegetation plots includes UTM coordinates and physical factors (slope, aspect, topographic setting, surface geology, leaf characteristics, and physiography). This is a very large file that may not display properly on your computer. Download the spreadsheet or database formats for local viewing. Modified Version 3.5 database.

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  • Excel (*.xls) format for downloading (95k)
  • MDbase (*.mdb) format for downloading (308k)

    • Species Listing Data for Plots

    Contains plant species data for each vegetation plot, including species name and strata code. This is a very large file that may not display properly on your computer. Download the spreadsheet or database formats for local viewing. Version 3.5 database.

  • "Table-enabled-browser" format Part 1 (199K)
  • "Table-enabled-browser" format Part 2 (224K)
  • "Table-enabled-browser" format Part 3 (218K)
  • "Table-enabled-browser" format Part 4 (214K)
  • "Table-challenged-browser" format Part 1 (388K)
  • "Table-challenged-browser" format Part 2 (415K)
  • Excel (*.xls) format for downloading (517k)
  • MDbase (*.mdb) format for downloading (472k)


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