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
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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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Land surveys
Mapping
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Polls & surveys
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Trees
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