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Spatial Extent of Data

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USGS Thesaurus Keywords

vegetation, vegetation stand, National Vegetation Classification Standard, vegetation species, NVC, vegetation sample, vegetation taxa

ISO 19115 Topic Category

biota, geoscientificInformation

Place Keywords

Piute-Eldorado Valley Area of Critical Environmental Concern, Mojave Desert, Great Basin Desert, Desert National Wildlife Refuge, Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Lincoln County, Nevada, Coyote Springs Area of Critical Environmental Concern, Clark County, Mormon Mesa Area of Critical Environmental Concern

DS 827, Vegetation Database for Land-Cover Mapping in Clark and Lincoln Counties, Nevada

This geodatabase consists of a point feature class and related tables representing sample sites where vegetation data were collected from 2007 to 2013 in Clark and Lincoln Counties, Nevada. Samples are identified with a vegetation stand name and classified from the alliance to the class level of the National Vegetation Classification Standard (NVC; Federal Geographic Data Committee, 2008). The database is also available in tabular format as tab-delimited text files or a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Reference Cited: Federal Geographic Data Committee, 2008, National Vegetation Classification Standard, Version 2, FGDC-STD-005-2008, accessed December 6, 2012, http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/vegetation/NVCS_V2_FINAL_2008.pdf.

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Author(s) United States Geological orcid
Publication Date 2014-06-13
Beginning Date of Data 2007-12-14
Ending Date of Data 2013-04-11
Data Contact
Nevada Water Science Center
DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P9A6FNGR
Citation Geological, U.S., 2014, DS 827, Vegetation Database for Land-Cover Mapping in Clark and Lincoln Counties, Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9A6FNGR.
Metadata Contact
Water Mission Area
Metadata Date 2020-11-17
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