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CSC04 Agricultural & Developed Aquatic Vegetation Cultural Subclass

Type Concept Sentence: Floating and submerged vegetation found in managed agricultural and developed sites, such as farm ponds, urban ponds, and other open water sites in urban, suburban, and rural settings.


Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Agricultural & Developed Aquatic Vegetation Cultural Subclass

Colloquial Name: Agricultural & Developed Aquatic Vegetation

Hierarchy Level:  Cultural Subclass

Type Concept: Floating and submerged vegetation found in managed agricultural and developed sites, such as farm ponds, urban ponds, and other open water sites in urban, suburban, and rural settings.

Diagnostic Characteristics: No Data Available

Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available

Classification Comments: Agricultural and developed 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 and developed sites, such as farm ponds, urban ponds, and other open water sites in urban, suburban, and rural settings.

Floristics: No Data Available

Dynamics:  No Data Available

Environmental Description:  Typical habitats include farm ponds, 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: CA,US

States/Provinces:  No Data Available



Confidence Level: Low

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 Formation CFO13 Developed Aquatic Vegetation Cultural Formation CFO13 7.D.2
Cultural Subclass CSC04 Agricultural & Developed Aquatic Vegetation Cultural Subclass CSC04 7.D

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.