[BSW] June meeting + Saturday Arlington Bioblitz + More
Kathy Bilton
kathy at fred.net
Thu May 18 17:08:53 PDT 2017
The next BSW meeting will be on Tuesday, June 6. Melanie Shori will be
speaking about strange plants of Asia.
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>From Rod Simmons:
The Arlington BioBlitz is Saturday, May 20. The sign up page is
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0b4fa8ab22a31-sign.
There are still lots of openings on various teams to join! All are
welcome. This should be a fun day amidst high quality natural areas,
abundant native biodiversity, and fellow nature enthusiasts. (There’s
even a separate team for tree surveys.)
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Periodical Cicadas are here! See the Capital Naturalist for more
information:
http://capitalnaturalist.blogspot.com/2017/05/periodical-cicadas-early-emergence.html?m=1.
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Another great local website is Bill’s Botanical Forays, focusing on the
Patuxent Research Refuge Plant Inventory Project - at
http://www.botanybill.info
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NATURAL COMMUNITIES OF VIRGINIA THIRD APPROXIMATION WEBSITE IS NOW ONLINE!
http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/natural-heritage/natural-communities/
A major update to The Natural Communities of Virginia web content is now
complete and available through DCR’s website. The Natural Communities of
Virginia: a Classification of Ecological Community Groups and Community
Types (Third approximation, Version 3.0) is the latest in a series of
successive versions of the natural community classification since the
initial hard-copy publication in 2001. The new web site is more richly
illustrated, with nearly 1500 captioned natural community photos added in
gallery-style pages linked from the Ecological Group pages. Ecological
Community Group range maps have been added and the classification itself
has been updated and refined to reflect recent state-wide and range-wide
analyses. Plant species compositional summary tables for each Community
Type are available as downloadable MS Excel tables on each Ecological
Community Group page. In addition to conceptual and nomenclatural changes
to Ecological Groups and Community Types, refinements to the organization
levels of the classification have been made that we hope will improve the
user’s experience.
In concert with the web content update, the Natural Heritage resource
list, Natural Communities of Virginia: Ecological Groups and Community
Types: a listing with conservation status ranks (PDF) has been updated to
reflect recent classification changes. All changes since the 2013 version
are listed in Appendix A. This downloadable document can function as a
hardcopy list or an interactive digital document that links to further
information about Virginia’s Natural Communities.
http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/natural-heritage/natural-communities/document/comlist04-17.pdf
Natural Communities are central to the Division of Natural Heritage’s
mission of documenting, protecting, and managing Virginia’s biodiversity.
The Ecological Community Groups and Community types defined in this
hierarchical classification developed by DCR-DNH Ecologists, provide
ecosystem targets for inventory, mapping, research, monitoring,
restoration, and conservation.
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