{"id":774,"date":"2020-03-16T19:03:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T19:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegpanel\/?p=774"},"modified":"2020-03-16T19:03:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T19:03:59","slug":"usnvc-eastern-regional-editors-meeting-2020-appalachian-and-coastal-plain-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegpanel\/2020\/03\/16\/usnvc-eastern-regional-editors-meeting-2020-appalachian-and-coastal-plain-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"USNVC Eastern Regional Editors Meeting 2020: Appalachian and Coastal Plain Forests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Revisions to the United States National Vegetation Classification (USNVC) are coordinated and reviewed through the Ecological Society of America (ESA) Vegetation Panel. These revisions are reviewed on an as needed basis. These regionally based meetings convene experts on regional vegetation to go through this rigorous review process. This year, the group reviewed the Appalachian and Coastal Plain Forests.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_780\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegpanel-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2020\/03\/IMG_0299.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-780\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-780 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegpanel-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2020\/03\/IMG_0299-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-780\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Regional Editors and Ecologists hard at work!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over two days, regional editors to the USNVC and ecologists met to discuss proposed revisions to Appalachian Forests and Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain Forests. A small group (10 people) of ecologists from state Heritage Programs (NJ, PA, WV, NC, VA) as well Regional Editors, Senior Ecology NatureServe staff, and ecologists from academia participated in this two-day, three-night retreat at the Center.\u00a0 The group also got to go hiking through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dcr.virginia.gov\/state-parks\/york-river\">York River State Park<\/a> that was nearby.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_777\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegpanel-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2020\/03\/americanhollytree-e1584384057610.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-777\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-777 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegpanel-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2020\/03\/americanhollytree-e1584384057610-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegpanel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2020\/03\/americanhollytree-e1584384057610-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/esa.org\/vegpanel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2020\/03\/americanhollytree-e1584384057610-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/esa.org\/vegpanel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2020\/03\/americanhollytree-e1584384057610-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/esa.org\/vegpanel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2020\/03\/americanhollytree-e1584384057610-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/esa.org\/vegpanel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2020\/03\/americanhollytree-e1584384057610-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/esa.org\/vegpanel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2020\/03\/americanhollytree-e1584384057610-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The largest American Holly tree two of our Veg Panel members, Tom Wentworth and Don Faber-Langendoen have ever seen!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_778\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegpanel-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2020\/03\/IMG_5786-e1584384436370.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-778\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-778 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegpanel-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2020\/03\/IMG_5786-e1584384436370-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our Team working at the VCU Rice Center on the Appalachian and Coastal Forests Review. Shout out to our remote contributors as well!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Revisions to these forest types will be posted in future releases of the USNVC ( <a href=\"http:\/\/usnvc.org\/\">http:\/\/usnvc.org\/<\/a>) and NatureServe\u2019s International Vegetation Classification (<a href=\"https:\/\/explorer.natureserve.org\/\">https:\/\/explorer.natureserve.org\/<\/a>).\u00a0 Contact Don Faber-Langendoen, USNVC Editor-in-Chief, for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regional Editors and Ecologists convened at the VCU Rice Center March 10-11, to review the USNVC Appalachian and Coastal Forests revisions.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegpanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegpanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegpanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegpanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegpanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegpanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1674,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegpanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/1674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegpanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegpanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegpanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegpanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}