Site 30 - PFBC Spring Creek
PFBC Spring Creek |
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Site
Identification
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| CWC Reference Number: | 30 |
| State: | PA |
| County: | Centre |
| Municipality: | Benner |
| USGS Quad: | Bellefonte |
| Watershed: | Spring Creek |
| Hydrogeomorphic Class: | Mainstem Floodplain |
| Disturbance Class: | Moderate |
| Dominant Vegetation Class: | *PSS/PFO |
| Wetland Area: | 0.4 ha (0.9 ac) |
| Year(s) Sampled: | 1994 |
Site 30 - PFBC Spring Creek
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Vegetation
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| Herbaceous |
| percent cover: | 79.6% (range 0-95%) |
| Dominant Species |
| Common Name: | Scientific Name: |
| Skunk cabbage | Symplocarpus foetidus |
| Stinging nettle | Urtica dioica |
| Creeping jennie | Lysimachia nummularia |
| Spotted touch me not | Impatiens capensis |
| Japanese honeysuckle | Lonicera japonica |
| Woody |
| percent cover: | 50.5% (range 40-100%) |
| Dominant Species |
| Common Name: | Scientific Name: |
| Morrow's honeysuckle | Lonicera morrowii |
| Multiflora rose | Rosa multiflora |
| Black walnut | Juglans nigra |
| Silky dogwood | Cornus amomum |
| Wild black currant | Ribes americanum |
| Weighted Indicator Status (dominant spp.) |
| Herbaceous: | 2.67 |
| Woody: | 2.67 |
| Indicator Status (all spp.) |
| Herbaceous: | 2.78 |
| Woody: | 3.22 |
| Species Richness |
| Total: | 79 |
| Herbaceous: | 67 |
| Woody: | 12 |
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Soils
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| Matrix Chroma (mean): | 1.5 |
| Organic Matter (mean %): | 6.97 |
| Bulk Density (g/cm2): | 0.83 |
| Soil Series: | Opequon-Hagerstown complex |
| Texture (mean %) |
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sand:
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26.0 |
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silt:
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53.4 |
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clay:
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20.6 |
| Sedimentation Rate |
| mineral loading (g/cm2): | site
1: 0.63 site 2: 0.58 |
| equivalent depth (cm): | site
1: 0.50 site 2: 0.50 |
| organic loading (g/cm2): | site
1: 0.43 site 2: 0.48 |
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Hydrology
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| Water Level |
| median (cm): | -32.5 |
| range (cm): | -55.0 - 0.0 |
| Water Quality |
| pH (mean): | 7.0 |
| Conductivity (mean): | 855.0 |
