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CFO12 Agricultural Aquatic Vegetation Cultural Formation

Type Concept Sentence: Floating and submerged vegetation found in managed agricultural sites, such as farm ponds.


Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Agricultural Aquatic Vegetation Cultural Formation

Colloquial Name: Agricultural Aquatic Vegetation

Hierarchy Level:  Cultural Formation

Type Concept: Floating and submerged vegetation found in managed agricultural sites, such as farm ponds.

Diagnostic Characteristics: Agricultural aquatic vegetation typically has a highly managed growth form composition, regulated water levels, and hardened, human-created shorelines.

Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available

Classification Comments: Agricultural aquatic vegetation that is not regularly managed may contain a native or naturalized set of growth forms and species that places it in 5.B ~Freshwater Aquatic Vegetation Subclass (S13)$$.

Similar NVC Types: No Data Available
note: No Data Available

Physiognomy and Structure: Floating and submerged vegetation found in managed agricultural sites, such as farm ponds.

Floristics: No Data Available

Dynamics:  No Data Available

Environmental Description:  Commonly found in agricultural aquatic sites, such as farm ponds.

Geographic Range: Patchily distributed across the globe, except in very dry or very cold regions.

Nations: AU,CA,US

States/Provinces:  No Data Available



Confidence Level: None

Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available

Grank: GNA

Greasons: No Data Available

Type Name Database Code Classification Code
Cultural Class CCL01 Anthromorphic Vegetation Cultural Class CCL01 7
Cultural Formation CFO12 Agricultural Aquatic Vegetation Cultural Formation CFO12 7.D.1
Cultural Subclass CSC04 Agricultural & Developed Aquatic Vegetation Cultural Subclass CSC04 7.D
Cultural Subformation CSF24 Agricultural Pond Vegetation Cultural Subformation CSF24 7.D.1.1

Concept Lineage: No Data Available

Predecessors: No Data Available

Obsolete Names: No Data Available

Obsolete Parents: No Data Available

Synonomy: No Data Available

Concept Author(s): Hierarchy Revisions Working Group, Federal Geographic Data Committee (Faber-Langendoen et al. 2014)

Author of Description: D. Faber-Langendoen

Acknowledgements: No Data Available

Version Date: 10-17-14

  • Faber-Langendoen, D., T. Keeler-Wolf, D. Meidinger, C. Josse, A. Weakley, D. Tart, G. Navarro, B. Hoagland, S. Ponomarenko, J.-P. Saucier, G. Fults, and E. Helmer. 2015c. Classification and description of world formation types. General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-000. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO.