PFBC Spring Creek |
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
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 |
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 %) |
Sand:
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26.0 |
Silt:
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53.4 |
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 |
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 |