Mixed Limestone Rich Sideslope
Scenario model
Current ecosystem state
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Management practices/drivers
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- Transition T1-2 More details
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No transition or restoration pathway between the selected states has been described
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Description
As a result of a long history of human activity, the associations listed below, may in reality, reflect the current naturalized, minimally-managed state rather than the historic, pre-European settlement condition. Notice transition pathways are not always designated between some of the communities in the reference state because the differences in vegetation are more controlled by landscape position, rather than disturbances or management, or that the relationships are not understood. In addition, undisclosed successional plant community-types following disturbance may be included as community phases.
Within the reference state, the plant communities are quite variable and include:
• Acer saccharum - Quercus muehlenbergii / Cercis canadensis Forest (CEGL006017)
(Translated Name: Sugar Maple - Chinquapin Oak / Eastern Redbud Forest)
[Common Name: Appalachian Sugar Maple - Chinquapin Oak Limestone Forest]
• Acer saccharum - Fraxinus americana - Tilia americana - Liriodendron tulipifera / Actaea racemosa Forest (CEGL006237)
(Translated Name: Sugar Maple - White Ash - American Basswood - Tuliptree / Black Baneberry Forest)
[Common Name: Central Appalachian Rich Cove Forest]
(Source: NatureServe 2020)
Submodel
Description
The Semi-natural State would expect plant communities where ecological processes are primarily operating with some land conditioning in the past or present, e.g., managed forests, or plant communities that are an artifact of land management e.g., predominately invasive plants.
Submodel
Mechanism
forest management, fire suppression, disturbance, invasive plant establishment
Mechanism
plant removal, plant establishment, successional management
Mechanism
plant removal, plant establishment, successional management
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