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CFO13 Developed Aquatic Vegetation Cultural Formation

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


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

Colloquial Name: Developed Aquatic Vegetation

Hierarchy Level:  Cultural Formation

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

Diagnostic Characteristics: No Data Available

Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available

Classification Comments: Developed aquatic vegetation sites that are not regularly managed may contain a native or naturalized set of growth forms and species that place them 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 developed sites.

Floristics: No Data Available

Dynamics:  No Data Available

Environmental Description:  The vegetation can be found in urban ponds, and other open water sites in urban, suburban and rural settings.

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 CFO13 Developed Aquatic Vegetation Cultural Formation CFO13 7.D.2
Cultural Subclass CSC04 Agricultural & Developed Aquatic Vegetation Cultural Subclass CSC04 7.D
Cultural Subformation CSF25 Urban & Recreational Pond Vegetation Cultural Subformation CSF25 7.D.2.1

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.