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Community Ecology Links

The following list contains links to web sites with information about Virginia's natural areas and flora, as well as other topics pertaining to Virginia landscape ecology and the practice of vegetation ecology.

LINKS PERTAINING TO VIRGINIA NATURAL AREAS AND LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Bull Run Mountains Conservancy

Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora

Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States (A.S. Weakley, Working Draft)

DCR Natural Area Preserves

Forests of the Central Appalachians Project

Geology of Virginia

George Washington and Jefferson National Forests

Soil Surveys for Virginia Counties

The Nature Conservancy, Virginia Field Office

The High Knob Landform - a site devoted to the most spectacular portions of the Cumberland Mountains in southwestern Virginia

Virginia National Parks

Virginia State Forests

Virginia State Parks

LINKS OF GENERAL INTEREST

Carolina Vegetation Survey

Digital Atlas of United States Trees

Ecological Society of America

International Association for Vegetation Science

National Park Service Vegetation Mapping Program

Natural Heritage Programs in other states and Canada

NatureServe: A Network Connecting Science with Conservation

NatureServe Biodiversity Publications

NatureServe Explorer: search for data on ecological communities, plants, and animals.

PC-ORD for Windows: program for multivariate analyses of ecological data

Silvics of Forest Trees (USDA Forest Service Handbook 654)

The Old-Growth Forest Network

The Ordination Web Page

USDA Plants Database

The U.S. National Vegetation Classification

VegBank: National Plots Database

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