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Standardized National Vegetation Classification System

http://biology.usgs.gov/npsveg/nvcs.html

Document on the National Vegetation Classification Standard with information on applications, background, development, characteristics, nomenclature standards, relationship to other classifications, and how to do vegetation mapping.

by National Park Service (Sponsor); Nature Conservancy (Compiler); and Environmental Systems Research Institute (Compiler)
Related topics:
Botany, Ecosystems, Land surface characteristics, Land use and land cover, Maps and atlases, Terminologies and classifications, Vegetation

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