Evaluating the Potential of the Original Texas Land Survey for Mapping Historical Land and Vegetation Cover

Indumathi Srinath and Andrew C. Millington
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Indumathi Srinath: Center for Agribusiness Excellence, Tarleton State University, Box T-0055, Stephenville, TX 76402, USA
Andrew C. Millington: School of the Environment, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia

Land, 2016, vol. 5, issue 1, 1-14

Abstract: This paper reports on research to evaluate the potential of Original Texas Land Survey (OTLS) to generate information that can be used to quantitatively map historical vegetation cover and analyse pertinent aspects of vegetation ecology. Research was conducted in Brazos County in east-central Texas. OTLS data are easy to acquire and convert to geo-referenced autecological information. Reconstructing and mapping vegetation and land cover, conducting vegetation- and species-site analyses with to soil-ecological maps, reconstructing vegetation assemblages and forest structure can be easily accomplished. Due to the irregular surveying framework used by OTLS, mapping gradational grassland-savannah ecotone boundaries is impracticable.

Keywords: vegetation cover reconstruction; historical ecology; historical land cover; Post Oak savannah; Original Texas Land Survey (OTLS); Texas (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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