Dominic DiPaolo, Southern Oregon University, Ecologist - Vegetation Mapping 20200130 vector digital data For more information, please see the published report in the NPS IRMA Data Store: https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2225475 https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Data/BIOS ftp://ftp.wildlife.ca.gov/BDB/GIS/BIOS/Public_Datasets/2800_2899/ds2859.zip The geographic information system (GIS) format spatial data set of vegetation for the Lava Beds National Monument (LABE) vegetation mapping and inventory project was created for the National Park Service (NPS) Vegetation Mapping Inventory Program (VMIP). The project area covers over 18,936 ha (46, 792 acres). The map classification scheme used to create the vegetation data set is designed to represent local vegetation types at the finest level possible using the National Vegetation Classification Standard (NVCS) Version 2. The associations present in each map unit are also coded into the database. Vegetation plot sampling was conducted to describe the associations and to develop the map classification scheme. A total of 169 vegetation plots were sampled at LABE. A detailed vegetation analysis of these data was undertaken along with historic information to develop the map classification scheme, in accordance with the National Vegetation Classification Standard (NVCS) Version 2. The vegetation data set was developed by interpreting aerial photographs collected in 2009 and extensive field surveys. The project report for the LABE vegetation mapping project provides details pertaining to the methods of the vegetation sampling, classification, and mapping. The vegetation data are distributed as an ESRI format file geodatabase, stored in Universal Transverse Mercator zone 10 mapping coordinates, North American Datum 1983. Vegetation types were crossswalked to MCV, CalVeg, and CWHR types by CDFW's Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program (VegCAMP).Link to report: https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2225475Link to download dataset from BIOS: ftp://ftp.wildlife.ca.gov/BDB/GIS/BIOS/Public_Datasets/2800_2899/ds2859.zip The NPS Vegetation Mapping Inventory Program (VMIP) is an effort to classify, describe, and map existing vegetation of national park units. Managed by the NPS Inventory and Monitoring Division, the NPS VMIP provides baseline vegetation information for the NPS Natural Resource I&M Program. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Vegetation Characterization Program lends a cooperative role in the NPS VMIP. Vegetation layers and associated information support a wide variety of resource assessment, park management, and planning needs. They also provide structure for framing and answering critical scientific questions about vegetation communities and their relation to environmental processes across the landscape. Vegetation types were crosswalked to the primary map unit for each polygon and are therefore unlikely to accurately reflect the secondary map unit or associations within the same polygon. Rarity ranks for vegetation types in this map are current as of December 17, 2019. Rarity ranks are subject to change due to changing threats and trends and as ranking methodologies are further refined. Please check CDFW’s Natural Communities page for the most up-to-date rarity ranks (https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Data/VegCAMP/Natural-Communities). References DiPaolo, D. A., S. B. Smith, D. C. Odion, J. H. Ives, and D. A. Sarr. 2015. Vegetation classification and mapping: Lava Beds National Monument. Natural Resource Report NPS/LABE/NRR—2015/1098. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado. Complete Unknown -121.608818 -121.376845 41.856881 41.688869 None NVC Land Use / Cover LABE National Monument U.S. National Vegetation Classification U.S. Geological Survey NVCS National Park Service National Vegetation Classification System imageryBaseMapsEarthCover Vegetation Map Lava Beds National Monument Vegetation Mapping Land Cover Remote Sensing Photointerpretation Biology Monitoring Photo Interpretation Land Use National Vegetation Classification Standard USNVC NPS Vegetation Mapping Inventory Program ISO 19115 Topic Categories imageryBaseMapsEarthCover environment None California None 1) Those using the spatial database should understand the data and determine for themselves the fitness of the data prior to use. 2) For publication and dissemination, citations or credit should be given to the U.S. Geological Survey Center for Biological Informatics, the National Park Service Biological Resources Management Division, Southern Oregon University, the National Park Service, Lava Beds National Monument, and NatureServe. 3) Mention of trade names or commercial products in this metadata report does not constitute endorsement or recommendation for use by the U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.Disclaimer: The State makes no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or adequacy of these data and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in these data. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed, or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to these data. Southern Oregon University Dominic DiPaolo Ecologist - Vegetation Mapping 541-552-8577 National Park Service Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Karl Brown Vegetation Inventory Program Manager, Inventory and Monitoring 970-225-3591 karl_brown@nps.gov CDFW VegCAMP Rosie Yacoub GIS Specialist Rosalie.Yacoub@wildlife.ca.gov National Park Service Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Karl Brown Vegetation Inventory Program Manager, Inventory and Monitoring 970-225-3591 karl_brown@nps.gov Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.5.1.7333 Vector GT-polygon composed of chains 582 NAD 1983 California Teale Albers 34.0 40.5 -120.0 0.0 0.0 -4000000.0 coordinate pair 0.0001 0.0001 meter D North American 1983 GRS 1980 6378137.0 298.257222101 ds2859 OBJECTID Internal feature number. Esri Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Shape Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. uniqueID Unique identifiers for each polygon Primary_MapUnit The dominant vegetation in each polygon distinguishable in the imagery. DiPaolo, D. A., S. B. Smith, D. C. Odion, J. H. Ives, and D. A. Sarr. 2015. Vegetation classification and mapping: Lava Beds National Monument. Natural Resource Report NPS/LABE/NRR—2015/1098. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado. Primary_MapUnit_pct The percent cover of the dominant vegetation in each polygon (range 50-100%). DiPaolo, D. A., S. B. Smith, D. C. Odion, J. H. Ives, and D. A. Sarr. 2015. Vegetation classification and mapping: Lava Beds National Monument. Natural Resource Report NPS/LABE/NRR—2015/1098. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado. Secondary_MapUnit The second most dominant vegetation in each polygon distinguishable on the imagery intermixed at a scale below the minimum mapping unit (0.5 ha) DiPaolo, D. A., S. B. Smith, D. C. Odion, J. H. Ives, and D. A. Sarr. 2015. Vegetation classification and mapping: Lava Beds National Monument. Natural Resource Report NPS/LABE/NRR—2015/1098. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado. Secondary_MapUnit_pct The percent cover of the secondary vegtetation in each polygon (range 10-50%). DiPaolo, D. A., S. B. Smith, D. C. Odion, J. H. Ives, and D. A. Sarr. 2015. Vegetation classification and mapping: Lava Beds National Monument. Natural Resource Report NPS/LABE/NRR—2015/1098. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado. PrimaryAssoc1 The dominant vegetation association in the dominant mapped vegetation type (Primary_MapUnit) in each polygon. DiPaolo, D. A., S. B. Smith, D. C. Odion, J. H. Ives, and D. A. Sarr. 2015. Vegetation classification and mapping: Lava Beds National Monument. Natural Resource Report NPS/LABE/NRR—2015/1098. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado. PrimaryAssoc1_pct The percent cover of the dominant vegetation association in the dominant mapped vegetation type in each polygon (range 50-100%). DiPaolo, D. A., S. B. Smith, D. C. Odion, J. H. Ives, and D. A. Sarr. 2015. Vegetation classification and mapping: Lava Beds National Monument. Natural Resource Report NPS/LABE/NRR—2015/1098. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado. PrimaryAssoc2 The secondary vegetation association in the dominant mapped vegetation type (Primary_MapUnit) in each polygon. DiPaolo, D. A., S. B. Smith, D. C. Odion, J. H. Ives, and D. A. Sarr. 2015. Vegetation classification and mapping: Lava Beds National Monument. Natural Resource Report NPS/LABE/NRR—2015/1098. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado. PrimaryAssoc2_pct The percent cover of the secondary vegetation association in the dominant mapped vegetation type in each polygon (range 10-50%). DiPaolo, D. A., S. B. Smith, D. C. Odion, J. H. Ives, and D. A. Sarr. 2015. Vegetation classification and mapping: Lava Beds National Monument. Natural Resource Report NPS/LABE/NRR—2015/1098. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado. SecondAssoc1 The dominant vegetation association in the secondary mapped vegetation type (Secondary_MapUnit) in each polygon. DiPaolo, D. A., S. B. Smith, D. C. Odion, J. H. Ives, and D. A. Sarr. 2015. Vegetation classification and mapping: Lava Beds National Monument. Natural Resource Report NPS/LABE/NRR—2015/1098. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado. SecondAssoc1_pct The percent cover of the primary vegetation association that occurs in the secondary mapped vegetation type in each polygon (range 50-100%). DiPaolo, D. A., S. B. Smith, D. C. Odion, J. H. Ives, and D. A. Sarr. 2015. Vegetation classification and mapping: Lava Beds National Monument. Natural Resource Report NPS/LABE/NRR—2015/1098. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado. SecondAssoc2 The secondary vegetation association occurring in the secondary mapped vegetation type (Secondary_MapUnit) in each polygon. DiPaolo, D. A., S. B. Smith, D. C. Odion, J. H. Ives, and D. A. Sarr. 2015. Vegetation classification and mapping: Lava Beds National Monument. Natural Resource Report NPS/LABE/NRR—2015/1098. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado. SecondAssoc2_pct The percent cover of the secondary vegetation association occurring in the secondary mapped vegetation type in each polygon (range 10-50%). DiPaolo, D. A., S. B. Smith, D. C. Odion, J. H. Ives, and D. A. Sarr. 2015. Vegetation classification and mapping: Lava Beds National Monument. Natural Resource Report NPS/LABE/NRR—2015/1098. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado. map_source Sources forming the basis for polygon boundaries. Note: Entries marked "Erhard" refer to: Erhard, D. H. 1979. Plant communities and habitat types in the Lava Beds National Monument, California. Master’s thesis, Oregon State University, Corvallis From the Natural Resource Report: A detailed vegetation map of Lava Beds was prepared by Erhard (1979). To assess whether we should use the polygons and attributes from this map, we did an accuracy assessment of the map. We calculated the percent of relevé plots that were correctly vs. incorrectly classified in the Erhard (1979) map. We found the map to be 54 percent accurate. This was far too low to use the map as a basis for our map. Despite the limitations of the Erhard (1979) map in terms of spatial accuracy, it provides useful vegetation information if one is aware of, and takes into account, that the polygon boundaries may be inaccurate (positionally shifted). Often, the location where a polygon boundary should be is obvious on contemporary imagery. DiPaolo, D. A., S. B. Smith, D. C. Odion, J. H. Ives, and D. A. Sarr. 2015. Vegetation classification and mapping: Lava Beds National Monument. Natural Resource Report NPS/LABE/NRR—2015/1098. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado. comments Field for additional information. Hectares Polygon area in hectares. ESRI NVCSName The standardized name of the vegetation description used in the Manual of California Vegetation (http://vegetation.cnps.org/). Since the MCV does not have categories for human land use or otherwise unvegetated land, those descriptions were drawn from the California Wildlife Habitat Relationship. http://vegetation.cnps.org/ NVCSLevel The standardized level of the vegetation description used in the 2008 National Vegetation Classification System (see http://usnvc.org/). http://usnvc.org/ CalVegName A crosswalk to the CalVeg vegetation system. Note that there may be a one-to-many relationship between CalVeg and NVCS (see http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r5/landmanagement/resourcemanagement/?cid=stelprdb5347192). http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r5/landmanagement/resourcemanagement/?cid=stelprdb5347192 CalVegCode A crosswalk to the CalVeg vegetation system. Note that there may be a one-to-many relationship between CalVeg and NVCS. See http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r5/landmanagement/resourcemanagement/?cid=stelprdb5347192 http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r5/landmanagement/resourcemanagement/?cid=stelprdb5347192 CWHRType A crosswalk to the California Wildlife Habitat Relationships system. Note that there is usually a one-to-many relationship between CWHR and NVCS (see http://www.dfg.ca.gov/biogeodata/cwhr/). http://www.dfg.ca.gov/biogeodata/cwhr/ CWHRCode A crosswalk to the California Wildlife Habitat Relationships system. Note that there is usually a one-to-many relationship between CWHR and NVCS (see http://www.dfg.ca.gov/biogeodata/cwhr/). http://www.dfg.ca.gov/biogeodata/cwhr/ GlobalRank The state rarity ranking of the plant community mapped (ranks are available for all California alliances, and some associations). Ranks are based on a set of criteria including the rarity of the community (extent and occupancy), the threats that the community is subject to, and any known trends in the quality, size, or quantity of stands within the state. Ranks go from G1 which is critically imperiled/has very few occurrences to G5, when a community is demonstrably secure due to security globally. Ranks G1-G3 are considered rare. See: http://www.natureserve.org/sites/default/files/publications/files/natureserveconservationstatusmethodology_jun12_0.pdf NatureServe, http://explorer.natureserve.org/granks.htm StateRank The state rarity ranking of the plant community mapped (ranks are available for all California alliances, and some associations). Ranks are based on a set of criteria including the rarity of the community (extent and occupancy), the threats that the community is subject to, and any known trends in the quality, size, or quantity of stands within the state. Ranks go from S1 which is most imperiled/has very few occurrences to S5, when a community is demonstrably secure due to security statewide. Ranks S1-S3 are considered rare. See (subnational): http://www.natureserve.org/sites/default/files/publications/files/natureserveconservationstatusmethodology_jun12_0.pdf NatureServe Rare Binary yes/no declaration of whether or not the vegetation type is rare. Alliances and associations with state ranks of S1-S3 are considered rare. https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Data/VegCAMP/Natural-Communities/Background CACode California Natural Community Codes - unique code assigned to alliances and associations by CDFW's Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program. https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Data/VegCAMP/Natural-Communities NVCSAlliance The standardized name of the vegetation alliance used in the Manual of California Vegetation (see http://vegetation.cnps.org/). http://vegetation.cnps.org/ NVCSGroup The standardized name for the group within the 2008 National Vegetation Classification System (see http://usnvc.org/). http://usnvc.org/ NCVSMG The standardized name for the macrogroup within the 2008 National Vegetation Classification System (see http://usnvc.org/). http://usnvc.org/ Shape_Area Area of feature in internal units squared. ESRI Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. Shape_Length Length of feature in internal units. Esri Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. 20200506 CDFW VegCAMP Rosie Yacoub GIS Specialist Rosalie.Yacoub@wildlife.ca.gov FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 local time