Abiotic

temperature oC

air

21.8

sediment

19.6

Sediment-sandy with some dry soil

Weather:

windy, slight overcast, not sunny but semi-bright

wind blowing from NE

Transect

Distance m

Height cm

0

0

3

55.5

6

94.5

9

98

12

134

15

100

18

-40

21

-33

24

-18.56

Floristics

black cherry

Prunus serotina

live oak

Quercus virginiana

loblolly pine

Pinus taeda

red maple

Acer rubrum

sourwood

Oxydendrum arboreum

sweetgum

Liquidambar styraciflua

beauty berry

Callicarpa americana

false nettles

Boehmeria cylindrica

grape vine

Vitis rotundifolia

lichens

smilax

Smilax rotundifolia

soft needlerush

Juncus effusus

three awn grass

Aristida virgata

bracken

Pteridium aquilinum

ground pine

Lycopodium tristachyum

royal fern

Osmunda regalis

sensitive fern

Onoclea sensibilis

VA chain fern

Woodwardia virginica

Biomass

1 meter squared

at edge by path

live oak

2

similax

1

threeawn grass

2

needlerush

1

On hill top

12 - m sq plots

~8% cover average

Trees

diameter cm

live oak

25.4

live oak

63.5

live oak

33.02

live oak

71.12

live oak

81.28

black cherry

30.48

Base of hill by water

1 m sq plot

stems

fern (sterile and fertile fronds)

40

sweetgum

2

ground pine

1

other ferns

9

Fauna

boar prints

Sus scrofa

horse (droppings)

Equus

black capped chickadee

Panis otricapillus

bobwhite - quail

cardinal

mockingbird

redwing black bird

Virginia creeper

deer

Odocoileus virginianus

fox

Vulpes vulpes

spiders