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CFO05 Pasture & Hay Field Crop Cultural Formation
Type Concept Sentence: Agricultural vegetation, including pastures and hayfields, often regularly mowed, fertilized, intensively grazed, and/or manipulated to maintain a particular desirable structure and composition.
Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Pasture & Hay Field Crop Cultural Formation
Colloquial Name: Pasture & Hay Field Crop
Hierarchy Level: Cultural Formation
Type Concept: Agricultural vegetation, including pastures and hayfields, often regularly mowed, fertilized, intensively grazed, and/or manipulated to maintain a particular desirable structure and composition.
Diagnostic Characteristics: No Data Available
Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available
Classification Comments: Agricultural pastures and hayfields differ from native or naturalized grasslands in the degree to which both structure and composition are manipulated through regular mowing, fertilization, intensive grazing, and other practices. These modifications to structure and composition provide distinctive vegetation characteristics as compared to native or natural grasslands. If agricultural practices are discontinued, native and exotic species from the surrounding landscape may establish and the field will become more "semi-natural." Where this occurs, the vegetation is reclassified as a native or naturalized "old-field" [see 2.A ~Tropical Grassland, Savanna & Shrubland Subclass (S01)$$ or 2.B ~Temperate & Boreal Grassland & Shrubland Subclass (S18)$$].
Some planted grain crops, such as annual rye or wheat, are more akin to row crops than to hay or pasture and so they are placed in 7.B.1 ~Row & Close Grain Crop Cultural Formation (CFO04)$$.
Some planted grain crops, such as annual rye or wheat, are more akin to row crops than to hay or pasture and so they are placed in 7.B.1 ~Row & Close Grain Crop Cultural Formation (CFO04)$$.
Similar NVC Types: No Data Available
note: No Data Available
Physiognomy and Structure: Agricultural vegetation, including pastures and hayfields, often regularly mowed, fertilized, intensively grazed, and/or manipulated to maintain a particular desirable structure and composition.
Floristics: No Data Available
Dynamics: No Data Available
Environmental Description: No Data Available
Geographic Range: Widely distributed across the globe, except in very dry or very cold regions.
Nations: AU,CA,US
States/Provinces: No Data Available
Plot Analysis Summary:
http://vegbank.org/natureserve/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.867667
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 | CFO05 Pasture & Hay Field Crop Cultural Formation | CFO05 | 7.B.2 |
| Cultural Subclass | CSC02 Herbaceous Agricultural Vegetation Cultural Subclass | CSC02 | 7.B |
| Cultural Subformation | CSF12 Cultivated Pasture & Hay Field Cultural Subformation | CSF12 | 7.B.2.1 |
| Cultural Subformation | CSF13 Permanent Pasture & Hay Field Cultural Subformation | CSF13 | 7.B.2.2 |
| Cultural Subformation | CSF14 Permanent Planted Grass & Forb Field Cultural Subformation | CSF14 | 7.B.2.3 |
Concept Lineage: No Data Available
Predecessors: No Data Available
Obsolete Names: No Data Available
Obsolete Parents: No Data Available
Synonomy: No Data Available
- 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.