Ecological Sites: Understanding the Landscape

The U t f o n to ecological & descriptions will provide 1 the foundation that a assist -b d managers in making timely, &king across my laadscape ,it iis not dificult to r e m p k sowe pqrtc w werent fiom other L pats in regmi ta the kinds 'and amounts af uege tation.U F n notididg thee differences, one may ask, "Are ~e s e changes random ~surrences, or is &ere a pattern or repatable eatiry that can be desc&ed?"As mtwe would haw it, themindeed does eriist a relationship.In fact in most cases, an inexfri'icabfe link btween the specific soils oa tbe landscape and the tesdmt express:ian of the plants exisu.To understand this variation across the landscape, we dfasgrfy these different parts into units called ecolo&cd sits.~di;cstpes am divided into eecolo&al sim for tbe purpase of inventory, evaluation, and maaagement?Any Imd invgn~ry, analysis, and resulting management decisions require the knowledge of these individual sites arrd their interrelationships to one another on the larrdscape.The ecolgtgicd site description is the doew e n t that will contain infbmalion about the individual ecological sites.