Maintenance and Measurement of Fort Benning's ACUB Ecological Monitoring Plots 2018
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Ecological monitoring is an increasingly important component of natural resource management at Fort Benning and on surrounding partner Army Compatible Use Buffer Lands (ACUB). With increased emphasis on maintaining and restoring valuable habitat for endangered species, natural resource management requires precise information regarding changes in forest vegetation. In an effort to track changes in forest vegetation condition on Fort Benning's ACUB lands, 205 permanent ecological monitoring plots have been installed since 2013. The monitoring project is split into Level 1 and Level 2 plots. Level 1 plots (96 in total) include indirect vegetation monitoring in the form of photomonitoring (See attached monitoring protocol). Level 2 plots (109 in total) include intensive vegetation monitoring through a series of direct measurements of overstory, midstory, and understory forest strata. Each monitoring season (summer-fall), only a subset of plots is prescribed for measurement based on the history of past disturbance.
