Well Drained Lake Plain
Scenario model
Current ecosystem state
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Management practices/drivers
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- Transition T3A More details
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No transition or restoration pathway between the selected states has been described
Target ecosystem state
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Description
The reference state is quite variable, containing several plant communities, including:
• Red Oak - Transitional Northern Hardwood Forest (CEGL006635)
Quercus rubra - Acer saccharum / Viburnum acerifolium - Lindera benzoin Forest
(Translated) Northern Red Oak - Sugar Maple / Mapleleaf Viburnum - Northern Spicebush Forest
Other plant associations may include:
• Dry-mesic Oak - Hickory / Viburnum Forest (CEGL006336)
Quercus (alba, rubra, velutina) - Carya spp. / Viburnum acerifolium Forest
(Translated) (White Oak, Northern Red Oak, Black Oak) / Hickory species / Mapleleaf Viburnum Forest
• Sugar Maple - Ash - Oak - Hickory Mesic Forest (CEGL006046)
Acer saccharum - Quercus rubra / Hepatica nobilis var. obtuse Forest
(Translated) Sugar Maple - Northern Red Oak / Round-lobe Liverleaf (CEGL006046)
• Semi-rich Northern Hardwood Forest (CEGL006221)
Acer saccharum - (Fraxinus americana) / Arisaema triphyllum Forest
(Translated) Sugar Maple - (White Ash) / Jack-in-the-Pulpit Forest
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
Invasive species removal, native outplanting, restoration management
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