Indicator
Relative Abundance of Meadows And Wetland Vegetation Types
Basics
Relative Abundance of Meadows And Wetland Vegetation Types
Meadow & Wetlands
Outcome
Program
Each Unit (number)
VP4: Relative Abundance - Of the total amount of undisturbed vegetation in the Tahoe Basin: Maintain at least four percent meadow and wetland vegetation.
Percent of Region’s undisturbed vegetation that is dominated by meadow and wetland vegetation. Total acreage of undisturbed vegetation was calculated by subtracting the area covered by impervious surfaces from the total area of the Region (201,953 acres less 7,974 acres = 193,979 acres).
This Indicator is reported in the following LT Info areas:
Status

Wetland and Meadow Vegetation Types Within the Tahoe Basin.

Data provided by the USDA Forest Service, R5 Remote Sensing Lab. Access detailed datasets on Tahoe Open Data, including, vegetation type summary, vegetation spatial data, and detailed vegetation attributes.

Name Options
Abundance Of Meadow And Wetlands
General

Program Meadow & Wetland Vegetation Type Monitoring

Approach

Vegetation types associated with meadows and wetlands (California Wildlife Habitat Relationship type “WTM” [wet meadow] and “PGS” [Perennial Grassland]) are queried and enumerated from the most recently available vegetation map (U.S. Forest Service - Remote Sensing Lab Pacific Southwest Region: TMU_Strata_07 [published 2009]). The Tahoe vegetation map is periodically updated with new satellite data (if available) and/or modelled and calibrated using field-based forest inventory and analysis data to assess the extent of different vegetation types and associated forest structure characteristics for the Region (USDA, 2009; Warbington et al., 2011).

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