Dry Outwash
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Description
The predominant plant communities of the Dry Outwash ecological site Reference State (minimally-managed) include:
• Pitch Pine - Scarlet Oak Woodland, (Pitch Pine - Scarlet Oak / Hillside Blueberry - (Northern Bayberry) Woodland), [Pinus rigida - Quercus coccinea / Vaccinium pallidum - (Morella pensylvanica) Woodland] - CEGL006381.
• Coastal Pitch Pine / Bear Oak Barrens, (Pitch Pine / Bear Oak / Northern Bayberry Woodland), [Pinus rigida / Quercus ilicifolia / Morella pensylvanica Woodland] CEGL006315
Other associated communities include several fire-dependent communities:
• Northern Dwarf Pine Plains, (Pitch Pine - Bear Oak / Bearberry Scrub), [Pinus rigida - Quercus ilicifolia / Arctostaphylos uva-ursi Scrub] - CEGL006097
• Outwash Bear Oak Barrens, (Bear Oak - Dwarf Chinkapin Oak Scrub), [Quercus ilicifolia - Quercus prinoides Scrub], - CEGL006111
• Sandplain Heathland, (Black Huckleberry - Lowbush Blueberry - Bearberry / Shore Little Bluestem Dwarf-shrubland), [Gaylussacia baccata - Vaccinium angustifolium - Arctostaphylos uva-ursi / Schizachyrium littorale Dwarf-shrubland], - CEGL006066
• Sandplain Grassland, (Northern Bayberry / Shore Little Bluestem - Poverty Oatgrass Shrub Grassland), [Morella pensylvanica / Schizachyrium littorale - Danthonia spicata Shrub Grassland], - CEGL006067
(Source: NatureServe 2018 [accessed 2019], USNVC 2017 [accessed 2019]).
• Northern Sandplain Grassland, (Lowbush Blueberry / Little Bluestem - Hillside Sedge Shrub Grassland), [Vaccinium angustifolium / Schizachyrium scoparium - Carex lucorum Shrub Grassland], - CEGL006393
Submodel
Description
Vegetation on lands somewhat conditioned by land use, e.g., managed native plant communities or invasive plant communities.
Submodel
Mechanism
Disturbance, invasive plant establishment
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Forest Land Management |
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Cutting, land clearing, plant establishment, wind erosion control
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Land Clearing |
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Herbaceous weed treatment, plant removal, plant establishment, successional management
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Restoration and Management of Natural Ecosystems |
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Monitoring and Evaluation |
Mechanism
Cutting, land clearing, plant establishment, wind erosion control
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Land Clearing |
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Invasive Plant Species Control |
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Herbaceous Weed Control |
Mechanism
Herbaceous weed treatment, plant removal, plant establishment, successional management
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Brush Management |
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Restoration and Management of Natural Ecosystems |
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Native Plant Community Restoration and Management |
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Herbaceous Weed Control |
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