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Vegetation Patterns within the Lower Bluestone River Gorge in Southern West Virginia

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Seven forest community types are described for a 2,100 ha study area in the lower Bluestone River Gorge in southern West Virginia. This is a remote, steeply sloped area, part of a large natural area that provides habitat to several plants not known elsewhere in the state. It is an example a topographic setting underrepresented in quantitative studies of forest vegetation in the region. Forest types were derived from cluster analysis of quantitative data on composition and structure of large tree (dbh ≥ 10 cm) strata obtained from 51 0.1 ha quadrats, the majority of which were included in a series of eleven transects that extended from the bottom of the gorge to a point near ...

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