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Terrestrial Ecosystem Classification In The Rocky Mountains, Northern Utah, Antonin Kusbach
Terrestrial Ecosystem Classification In The Rocky Mountains, Northern Utah, Antonin Kusbach
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Currently, there is no comprehensive terrestrial ecosystem classification for the central Rocky Mountains of the United States. A comprehensive classification of terrestrial ecosystems in a mountainous study area in northern Utah was developed incorporating direct gradient analysis, spatial hierarchy theory, the zonal concept, and concepts of diagnostic species and fidelity, together with the biogeoclimatic ecosystem classification approach used in British Columbia, Canada.
This classification was derived from vegetation and environmental sampling of both forest and non-forest ecosystems. The SNOwpack TELemetry (SNOTEL) and The National Weather Service (NWS) Cooperative Observer Program (COOP) weather station network were used to approximate climate of …