EEP wants to do a better job creating natural ecosystems.
CVS provides improved reference data, target design, monitoring, and data management and analysis
Summary tables for 370 vegetation types in NC
Limitation: requires that user knows which of the 370 types is of interest at restoration site
CVS is developing tools and data sources to facilitate planning of restoration activities and to evaluate their success.
New data sources and tools are being designed
Suggestions for new tools and increased functionality.
By June 30, ALL 7000 plots in CVS will have been mapped onto NVC community type
Species names have been mapped onto ‘single’ taxonomic concept
New Archive Database for Level 5 plots
Document reference conditions
Derive restoration targets
Design site-specific restoration plan
Implement the plan
Monitor change and assess success
Employ adaptive management
Designed to identify a restoration target WITHOUT knowing the identity of a vegetation type:
DATA CONTRACTOR PLUGS IN:
1) Spatial
2) Environmental
WEB-BASED TOOL OUTPUTS:
Restoration Target!
Benefits of Restoration Site Summary Tables include:Reduce time EEP staff invest in developing restoration targets
More ecologically meaningfulEnsure that recommendations are based on sites from the same geographic region
Link to planting list database
We propose to develop a database tool that automatically evaluates the species list for any one project
Reduces cost, time EEP staff invest in developing and evaluating planting lists
Tool would draw on 4 datasets (continued)…
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RABRAB
Assess which communities are possible within a region and certain environmental conditions then compare to proposed species list
Assess range of environmental tolerance for every species, based on occurrence within natural vegetation plots in NC.
Compare these environmental conditions with those that exist at a restoration site.
Examine the success of species used in earlier EEP projects on similar sites.
Past success can be deduced from CVS-managed data from monitoring studies.