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Community cover type: Pinus taeda-Liquidambar styraciflua 



General habitat feature: Low shoreline and forest 



Average tree height: 40 feet 



Estimated age of canopy trees: 40 years 



Estimated size of association (sq. meters, acres, etc.): 1473 acres 



Successional stage: Late serai (transient) 



Sere type: Psammosere? 



Commonly canopy species in community cover t3rpe or community 

 type (but not dominant): None 



Common subcanopy-shrub stratum species in community cover 

 type or community tjrpe (but not dominant) : Liquidambar 

 styraciflua 



Common herb stratum species in community type (but not 

 dominant): None 



Soil Summary 



Source of information: General Soil Map, Tyrrell County, 

 USDA-SCS; Revised 7/72 



Soil association: Belhaven-Dare-Dorovan 



Soil order: Histosols 



pH class: Unknown 



Moisture class: Hydric 



Associated community cover t3^e or community type: Pinus 

 taeda-Liquidambar styraciflua 



Hydrology Summary "'^ 



Drainage basin: Albemarle Sound 



Hydrologic system: Terrestrial 



Hydrologic subsystem: Wet 



Water chemistry: Fresh 



Water regime: Seasonally saturated 



Summary-Topography and Physiography 



Topographic site type characteristics 



