Adaptable, ecology-based U.S. National Vegetation Classification for monitoring multi-scale change debuts today
Public release of a 20-year collaborative effort to devise a unified and consistent national reporting system for plant communities opens new avenues for broad-scale and long-term analyses of landscape change. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, 23 February 2016 Contact: Liza Lester, 202-833-8773 ext. 211, LLester@esa.org  The U.S. National Vegetation Classification (USNVC), a reporting standard organized around ecological principles for the…