Ecological Site (1,6) 

 Range Site (1) 

 Site Type (9) 

 Riparian Site Type (5) 

 Riverine Site (7) 

 Riparian Site (7) 



A distinctive type of land that differs from other kinds of land in its 

 ability to produce a characteristic potential natural community. 

 (This definition has been modified to not limit the natural commu- 

 nity to just plants.) For example, as used in (7), a riverine site 

 would be similar to the above but would produce a characteristic 

 natural stream community. 



Potential Natural The biotic community that would become established if all succes- 



Community (1 ,9) sional sequences were completed without interferences by man 



Qimax Community(l) under the present environmental conditions. Often, the potential 



natural community of a site has to be estimated, since most 

 managed sites support serai plant communities due to ongoing 

 disturbance. Qimax plant community as defined in (9) is the 

 culminating stage in plant succession for a given environment that 

 develops and perpetuates itself in the absence of disturbance (see 

 habitat type). 



HabitatType(4,5,9) 



All the land capable of producing similar communities at climax. 

 A habitat type name incorporates those indicator plant species 

 which best define the environment to be classified. A habitat type 

 may or may not be synonymous with a range site/ecological site; 

 most often it is a somewhat broader classification than the range 

 site. 



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