Batture - Mississippi River Unprotected By Levee Sites
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Management practices/drivers
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Transition T 1-2
Wind or water Force causing canopy gaps.
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Restoration pathway T 2-1
Regeneration of natural species.
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Description
The Batture subregion of MLRA 131A includes the landscape directly impacted by current Mississippi River. This Ecological Site Concept is developed to capture all soils mapping that is too broad or inconsistent to be linked to a specific Ecological site. If this Ecological site is linked to a soil component the mix of hardwood species that would be found on the location can only be determined by an onsite investigation.
Description
This state consists of forest canopy openings that are created by catastrophic disturbances, allowing sunlight to reach understory strata and ground surfaces. Depending on local conditions and disturbance regime and intensity, a continuum or range of successional stages and community structure (physiognomy) is represented. Provisionally, this state includes seral stages ranging from recent disturbances that consist mainly of sparse herbaceous cover over mostly bare soil to the regeneration of woody species among a dense herbaceous cover (early stand initiation stage) to the initial stem exclusion stage where woody growth overtops and shades out the herbaceous stratum. In future ecological site development efforts, multiple community phases that describe the composition and progression from one stage to the next may be warranted for specifying management strategies and actions.
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