Parramore Island of the Virginia Coast Reserve Permanent Plot Resurvey: Calibration Saltmarsh Harvest data 1996

First 3-5 year resurvey of permanent monitoring plots using essentially the same protocol as the intial survey of 1992-1993 except that: 1.) standing biomass of the herbaceous groundcover was added (including for new lower salt marsh plots) using clip plots at the subplot locations; and 2.) an estimate of landcover/habitat class aggregation was conducted surrounding each plot center out to 60m in the four cardinal directions. Extends baseline data useful for estimating landscape-scale vegetative productivity, mortality, and turnover; for establishing pre-disturbance conditions in the case of later stand- or island-wide disturbance; and for assisting in the ground-truthing of landcover and habitat classification using aerial or satellite remote-sensing imagry.