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

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  • Indumathi Srinath

    (Center for Agribusiness Excellence, Tarleton State University, Box T-0055, Stephenville, TX 76402, USA)

  • Andrew C. Millington

    (School of the Environment, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia)

Abstract

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.

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  • Indumathi Srinath & Andrew C. Millington, 2016. "Evaluating the Potential of the Original Texas Land Survey for Mapping Historical Land and Vegetation Cover," Land, MDPI, vol. 5(1), pages 1-14, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlands:v:5:y:2016:i:1:p:4-:d:63441
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    1. Brice B. Hanberry, 2021. "Timing of Tree Density Increases, Influence of Climate Change, and a Land Use Proxy for Tree Density Increases in the Eastern United States," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(11), pages 1-17, October.

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