Evaluating the Potential of the Original Texas Land Survey for Mapping Historical Land and Vegetation Cover

This paper reports on research to evaluate the potential of Original Texas Land Survey (OTLS) to generate information that can be used to quantitatively map historical vegetation cover and analyse pertinent aspects of vegetation ecology. Research was conducted in Brazos County in east-central Texas....

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Published in:Land (Basel) 2016-03, Vol.5 (1), p.4
Main Authors: Srinath, Indumathi, Millington, Andrew
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
19th century
Autecology
Ecological research
Grasslands
historical ecology
historical land cover
Land cover
Land grants
Land surveys
Mapping
Original Texas Land Survey (OTLS)
Polls & surveys
Post Oak savannah
Public lands
Savannahs
Texas
Topography
Trees
Vegetation
Vegetation cover
vegetation cover reconstruction
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Summary:This paper reports on research to evaluate the potential of Original Texas Land Survey (OTLS) to generate information that can be used to quantitatively map historical vegetation cover and analyse pertinent aspects of vegetation ecology. Research was conducted in Brazos County in east-central Texas. OTLS data are easy to acquire and convert to geo-referenced autecological information. Reconstructing and mapping vegetation and land cover, conducting vegetation- and species-site analyses with to soil-ecological maps, reconstructing vegetation assemblages and forest structure can be easily accomplished. Due to the irregular surveying framework used by OTLS, mapping gradational grassland-savannah ecotone boundaries is impracticable.
ISSN:2073-445X
2073-445X
DOI:10.3390/land5010004