1. March 6, 2010 RedLair activities

5. Surveying the best remaining natural vegetation

6. Standard protocol; annual pulse events Learn about pulse -- http://cvs.bio.unc.eduhttp://cvs.bio.unc.edu

7. Green = Matthews Blue = Pulse 2003 Plan = One more pulse for ca 25 plots to capture the range of variation. Probably 2011. For info on pulse see http://cvs.bio.unc.edu

8. Join us! Pulse 2010A = Northern Piedmont, May 15-22 Pulse 2010B = Western mountains, June 12-19

9. Available data include - Species frequency - Species importance - Woody stem diameters - Site data - Soil data - Maps of occurrences - Descriptions > 6000 High-quality reference sites 280 Natural community types with >= 4 plots 495 Natural community types with >= 1 plot

10. Physiognomic Great Group http://cvs.bio.unc.edu/vegetation.htm

13. Graduate student Liz Matthews & assistant Megan Faestel

14. Phase 1 – Web tool for documenting reference conditions by NVC types (partly implemented, improving). Phase 2 – Constrain NVC types and plots by geographic region (in development). Phase 3 – Web tool for predicting a target from site conditions (prototype complete -- future development). Opp 1: Better, cheaper, defendable restoration targets

15. Data flow for identifying target community and planting list Internal decision tree showing how site data predict community type

16. Prototype tool to allow users to enter site data and determine matching community types. Planting list could be automatically generated.

18. Graduate student Brooke Wheeler

19. Typical upland hardwood forest of RedLair

20. Typical forest on nutrient-rich soils

21. RedLair’s Bigleaf Magnolia filling a gap that formed during Hurricane Hugo