Details - Field sheets for patch, Chesapeake western shores, spring 1978

Field sheets for patch, Chesapeake western shores, spring 1978

Title

Field sheets for patch, Chesapeake western shores, spring 1978

Related Titles

Contained In: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Research Records, 1964-1999

Series: SIA Acc. 17-003

Series: Smithsonian Field Book Project : an initiative to improve access to field book content that documents natural history

By

Lynch, James Francis, 1942-
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1978

Notes

The field sheets document James Lynch's research of habitat found on Chesapeake Bay's western shores in Maryland during spring of 1978. Sheets are preprinted and list patch number (e.g. A4), county, date, quad (e.g. Bowie), quarter (e.g. II), area number, perimeter description, walked measurements with bearing, followed by description of topography, community description, vegetation of surrounding area, and directions to center plot (landmarks and roads in vicinity). Community description and "vegetation of surrounding area" vary across sheets, but generally contain common or scientific names of plants in vicinity as well as general description of vegetation (e.g. mixed forest). Also includes a table of data entitled "herb census" for patch #P15.