Physical Variables And Community Structure Of The White Rocks Cliff System, Cumberland Gap National Historic Park
Cliff-face ecology is the study of the patterns and processes which control cliff-face ecosystems (Larson et al. 2000). It is important to study cliff systems due to their cultural and biological significance. Cliff systems have been employed for shelter and concealment throughout humanities history...
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ftunivnorthcag:oai:libres.uncg.edu/37240 2024-02-11T10:01:18+01:00 Physical Variables And Community Structure Of The White Rocks Cliff System, Cumberland Gap National Historic Park Ballinger, David Allan Lee NC DOCKS at Appalachian State University 2007 http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/asu/f/Ballinger_David_2007_Thesis_Physical Variables Community Rocks.pdf English eng http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/asu/f/Ballinger_David_2007_Thesis_Physical Variables Community Rocks.pdf 2007 ftunivnorthcag 2024-01-27T23:48:08Z Cliff-face ecology is the study of the patterns and processes which control cliff-face ecosystems (Larson et al. 2000). It is important to study cliff systems due to their cultural and biological significance. Cliff systems have been employed for shelter and concealment throughout humanities history. Presently, cliff systems are used primarily for recreation, which has had an increasingly negative effect on the sensitive vegetation which occurs on these systems. Cliff systems provide habitat for many threatened, rare, and arctic and boreal disjunct species which are restricted to cliff systems as a result of moderated environmental and physical conditions not found in traditional horizontal environments. A vegetative survey of the White Rocks cliff system, located in the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, was conducted during the summer and fall of 2005, and May, 2006. Vascular plants, mosses, and lichens were surveyed on the cliff top, cliff face, and talus using lm2 plots spaced evenly along 12 randomly located vertical transects. Other/Unknown Material Arctic University of North Carolina: NC DOCKS (Digital Online Collection of Knowledge and Scholarship) Arctic White Rocks ENVELOPE(-130.568,-130.568,53.630,53.630) |
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Cliff-face ecology is the study of the patterns and processes which control cliff-face ecosystems (Larson et al. 2000). It is important to study cliff systems due to their cultural and biological significance. Cliff systems have been employed for shelter and concealment throughout humanities history. Presently, cliff systems are used primarily for recreation, which has had an increasingly negative effect on the sensitive vegetation which occurs on these systems. Cliff systems provide habitat for many threatened, rare, and arctic and boreal disjunct species which are restricted to cliff systems as a result of moderated environmental and physical conditions not found in traditional horizontal environments. A vegetative survey of the White Rocks cliff system, located in the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, was conducted during the summer and fall of 2005, and May, 2006. Vascular plants, mosses, and lichens were surveyed on the cliff top, cliff face, and talus using lm2 plots spaced evenly along 12 randomly located vertical transects. |
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Ballinger, David Allan Lee NC DOCKS at Appalachian State University |
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Ballinger, David Allan Lee NC DOCKS at Appalachian State University Physical Variables And Community Structure Of The White Rocks Cliff System, Cumberland Gap National Historic Park |
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Ballinger, David Allan Lee NC DOCKS at Appalachian State University |
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Ballinger, David Allan Lee |
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Physical Variables And Community Structure Of The White Rocks Cliff System, Cumberland Gap National Historic Park |
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Physical Variables And Community Structure Of The White Rocks Cliff System, Cumberland Gap National Historic Park |
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Physical Variables And Community Structure Of The White Rocks Cliff System, Cumberland Gap National Historic Park |
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Physical Variables And Community Structure Of The White Rocks Cliff System, Cumberland Gap National Historic Park |
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Physical Variables And Community Structure Of The White Rocks Cliff System, Cumberland Gap National Historic Park |
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physical variables and community structure of the white rocks cliff system, cumberland gap national historic park |
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2007 |
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http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/asu/f/Ballinger_David_2007_Thesis_Physical Variables Community Rocks.pdf |
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