General Information
Reference Number: | 9 |
State: | Pennsylvania |
County: | Centre |
Municipality: | Benner |
USGS Quad: | State College |
Watershed: | Spring Creek |
Hydrogeomorphic Class: | Isolated Depression |
Disturbance Class: | Severe |
Dominant Vegetation Class: | PSS |
Wetland Area: | 0.2 ha (0.5 ac) |
Year(s) Sampled: | 1993, 1994 |
Vegetation
Herbaceous | |
Percent Cover: | 47.3% (range 1-100%) |
Dominant Species | |
Common Name | Scientific Name |
Teasel | Dipsacus sylvestris |
Common burdock | Arctium minus |
Virginia creeper | Parthenocissus quinquefolia |
Climbing nightshade | Solanum dulcamara |
Riverbank grape | Vitis riparia |
Woody | |
Percent cover: | 61.6% (range 0-100%) |
Dominant Species | |
Common buttonbush | Cephalanthus occidentalis |
Weighted Indicator Status (dominant species) | |
Herbaceous: | 3.03 |
Woody: | 1.34 |
Weighted Indicator Status (all species) | |
Herbaceous: | 3.00 |
Woody: | 1.00 |
Species Richness | |
Total: | 57 |
Herbaceous: | 55 (over 2 years) |
Woody: | 2 |
Soils
Matrix Chroma (mean): | 1.0 |
Organic Matter (mean %): | 8.66 |
Bulk Density (g/cm2): | 0.76 |
Soil Series: | Hublersburg silt loam |
Texture (mean %) | |
Sand: | 19.7 |
Silt: | 49.4 |
Clay: | 31.0 |
Sedimentation Rate | |
Mineral loading (g/cm2): | NA |
Equivalent depth (cm): | NA |
Organic loading (g/cm2): | NA |
Hydrology
Water Level | |
Median (cm): | -33.0 |
Range (cm): | -67.0 – 46.0 |
Water Quality | |
pH (mean): | 6.8 |
Conductivity (mean): | 320.0 |