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EwA
Jul 19, 2018, 8:55:13 PM7/19/18
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Hi Biobliss friends!
In preparation for the survey that we'll do mid-August at the Bellevue Pond, here is the list of the species recorded last year, and so that you can (if you want) read a little about those species before the survey :-)
I linked them to their corresponding Go Botany page. Enjoy!
Cheers, - Claire
EwA
Jul 26, 2018, 6:34:32 PM7/26/18
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A note from Walter regarding Floristic Quality Assessment:
"You may remember me talking about Floristic Quality Assessment, which assigns an ecological number from 0-10 for each species according to the habitat stage they usually occur in, from early to late successional. I ran the numbers on the Bellevue survey and got an FQA value of 20.6, which is on the high side, indicating a stable species rich environment. This is probably a case of these species having been present all along in low numbers building up a seedbank. This allowed them to dominate the habitat, eliminating the possibility of an early successional phase." (07/24/18)
And if you're more curious about FQA, here a few refs:
* Recent Mass perf survey > https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1688&context=masters_theses_2
* Open source calculator > https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210X.12491
See you soon! - Claire
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