EEP wants to do a better job creating natural ecosystems.

CVS provides improved reference data, target design, monitoring, and data management and analysis

Summary tables for 370 vegetation types in NC

Limitation: requires that user knows which of the 370 types is of interest at restoration site

CVS is developing tools and data sources to facilitate planning of restoration activities and to evaluate their success.

New data sources and tools are being designed

Suggestions for new tools and increased functionality.

By June 30, ALL 7000 plots in CVS will have been mapped onto NVC community type

Species names have been mapped onto ‘single’ taxonomic concept

New Archive Database for Level 5 plots

Document reference conditions

Derive restoration targets

Design site-specific restoration plan

Implement the plan

Monitor change and assess success

Employ adaptive management

Designed to identify a restoration target WITHOUT knowing the identity of a vegetation type:

DATA CONTRACTOR PLUGS IN:

1) Spatial

2) Environmental

WEB-BASED TOOL OUTPUTS:

Restoration Target!

Benefits of Restoration Site Summary Tables include:Reduce time EEP staff invest in developing restoration targets

More ecologically meaningfulEnsure that recommendations are based on sites from the same geographic region

Link to planting list database

We propose to develop a database tool that automatically evaluates the species list for any one project

Reduces cost, time EEP staff invest in developing and evaluating planting lists

Tool would draw on 4 datasets (continued)…

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RABRAB

Assess which communities are possible within a region and certain environmental conditions then compare to proposed species list

Assess range of environmental tolerance for every species, based on occurrence within natural vegetation plots in NC.

Compare these environmental conditions with those that exist at a restoration site.

Examine the success of species used in earlier EEP projects on similar sites.

Past success can be deduced from CVS-managed data from monitoring studies.