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Publication Date: 2016
The National Vegetation Classification is a central organizing framework for documentation, inventory, monitoring, and study of vegetation in the United States from broad scale formations like forests to fine-scale plant communities. The Classification allows users to produce uniform statistics about vegetation resources across the nation at local, regional, or national levels.
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- NVCS - National Vegetation Classification Standard
- plant communities
- vegetation
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FRAMES Record Number: 21813