NC-Crews : North Carolina coastal region evaluation of wetland significance

1999-05

              Water Quality
Rating
WQF01
Hydrology Rating
HYF01
Habitat Rating
HAF01
Overall
Wetland Rating
OWR01
Interior Habitat Size
haf01111
Availability of Water
haf01112
Internal Heterogeneity
haf01113
Wetland Type
haf01114
Internal Habitat
haf0111
Wetland Juxtaposition
haf01121
Surrounding Habitat
haf01122
Landscape Habitat
haf0112
Corridor Functions
haf01131
Island Functions
haf01132
Movement System
haf0113
Terrestrial Wildlife
haf011
Anadromous Fish
haf0121
Other Fish
haf0122
Wetland Type
haf01231
Surrounding Habitat
haf01232
Amphib./Invertebrate Habitat
haf0123
Aquatic Life
haf012
Habitat Function
haf01
≤
≥
≥
≤
≤
≥
≥
FIGURE 1
FLATS DATA vs ALL INDICATOR FUNCTIONS
Percent chaining = 10.00
L O G o f D I S T A N C E
-1.119 .040 1.200 2.360 3.519
|-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
SWAMP -----------------------------------|
|-----------A----|
HDWTR -----------------------------------| |
|
MARFOR ------------| |---------|
|---------| | |
HDWDFL | | | | |
|-----------| |-------------------------B---| |
ESTFOR | | |
| |
ESTSS ----------------------| |
|
POCOSN -----------------------------------------------| |
| |
PLANTN -----------------------------| |---C----------|
|-----------| |
PINEFL -----------------------------| |-----|
|
FWMAR -----------------------------------------|
FLATS DATA vs HYDROLOGY FUNCTION
Percent chaining = 45.00
L O G o f D I S T A N C E
-6.685 -4.769 -2.854 -.939 .976
|-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
SWAMP ----------------------------------------------------A---------|
|
POCOSN ---------------------| |
|---| |
HDWDFL ---------------------| | |
|-------| |
HDWTR | | | |
|------------------------| |----| |
FWMAR | | | |
| | |
MARFOR ---------------------------------| |------------B----| |
| | |
ESTSS ------------| | | |
|-------------------------| |-----|
ESTFOR ------------| |
|
PLANTN --------------------------------------------| |
|-----C-----|
PINEFL --------------------------------------------|
FIGURE 2
MULTI-RESPONSE PERMUTATION PROCEDURES (MRPP)
FLATS vs ALL INDICATOR FUNCTIONS
INPUT HAS 10 WETLAND
THERE WERE 11 FUNCTIO
WEIGHTING OPTION: C(I) = n(I)/sum(n(I))
DISTANCE MEASURE = Euclidean
GROUP NUMBER 1 OF SIZE 2 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 1.8320208
GROUP NUMBER 2 OF SIZE 4 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 2.1452494
GROUP NUMBER 3 OF SIZE 4 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 1.0824680
THE TEST STATISTIC IS = -3.9489068
THE OBSERVED DELTA IS = 1.6574911
THE EXPECTED DELTA IS = 2.5205177
THE VARIANCE OF DELTA = .47763328E-01
THE SKEWNESS OF DELTA = -.80530833
PROBABILITY OF A SMALLER OR EQUAL DELTA = .00170269
FLATS vs HYDROLOGY
INPUT HAS 10 WETLAND
THERE WERE 2 FUNCTIO
WEIGHTING OPTION: C(I) = n(I)/sum(n(I))
DISTANCE MEASURE = Euclidean
GROUP NUMBER 1 OF SIZE 8 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = .42669679
GROUP NUMBER 2 OF SIZE 2 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = .52009598
THE TEST STATISTIC IS = -4.5671409
THE OBSERVED DELTA IS = .44537663
THE EXPECTED DELTA IS = .60609777
THE VARIANCE OF DELTA = .12383893E-02
THE SKEWNESS OF DELTA = -2.2842500
PROBABILITY OF A SMALLER OR EQUAL DELTA = .00471710
FIGURE 3
FLATS DATA vs WATER QUALITY FUNCTION
CLUSTER ANALYSIS, EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE WARD’S METHOD Percent chaining = 10.00
L O G o f D I S T A N C E
-2.507 -1.361 -.216 .929 2.074
|-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
SWAMP ----------------------------|
|-----------------A----|
POCOSN ----------------------------| |-----------|
| |
HDWTR ----------------------------------------------B----| |
|
PLANTN ----------| |
|-------------------------| |
ESTFOR ----------| | |
|------C---| |
PINEFL --------------------| | | |
|---------------| | |
MARFOR | | | |
|-------------------| |---------------|
HDWDFL | |
|
FWMAR ------------------------------------------| |
|-D--|
ESTSS ------------------------------------------|
FLATS DATA vs HABITAT FUNCTION
CLUSTER ANALYSIS, EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE WARD’S METHOD Percent chaining = 20.00
L O G o f D I S T A N C E
-3.058 -1.508 .042 1.592 3.142
|-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
SWAMP -----------------|
|--------|
HDWDFL -------| | |
|---------| |-----|
ESTFOR -------| | |
| |----------|
ESTSS --------------------------| | |
| |------A------------|
MARFOR --------------------------------| | |
| |
HDWTR -------------------------------------------| |
|
POCOSN | |
|------------------------------------------B------| |
PINEFL | | |
|------------|
PLANTN ------------------------------------| |
|------C------|
FWMAR ------------------------------------|
FIGURE 4
MULTI-RESPONSE PERMUTATION PROCEDURES (MRPP)
FLATS DATA vs WATER QUALITY FUNCTION
INPUT HAS 10 WETLAND
THERE WERE 5 FUNCTIO
WEIGHTING OPTION: C(I) = n(I)/sum(n(I))
DISTANCE MEASURE = Euclidean
GROUP NUMBER 1 OF SIZE 3 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 1.0432764
GROUP NUMBER 2 OF SIZE 5 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = .65312513
GROUP NUMBER 3 OF SIZE 2 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 1.1060742
THE TEST STATISTIC IS = -3.5193961
THE OBSERVED DELTA IS = .86076030
THE EXPECTED DELTA IS = 1.2377404
THE VARIANCE OF DELTA = .11473620E-01
THE SKEWNESS OF DELTA = -.75876056
PROBABILITY OF A SMALLER OR EQUAL DELTA = .00328094
FLATS DATA vs HABITAT FUNCTION
INPUT HAS 10 WETLAND
THERE WERE 4 FUNCTIO
WEIGHTING OPTION: C(I) = n(I)/sum(n(I))
DISTANCE MEASURE = Euclidean
GROUP NUMBER 1 OF SIZE 6 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = .97239887
GROUP NUMBER 2 OF SIZE 2 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = .30659426
GROUP NUMBER 3 OF SIZE 2 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 1.1099998
THE TEST STATISTIC IS = -4.1097749
THE OBSERVED DELTA IS = .86675814
THE EXPECTED DELTA IS = 1.9302940
THE VARIANCE OF DELTA = .66968136E-01
THE SKEWNESS OF DELTA = -.77009040
PROBABILITY OF A SMALLER OR EQUAL DELTA = .00117972
FIGURE 5
RIVERINE DATA vs ALL INDICATOR FUNCTIONS
Percent chaining = 27.27
L O G o f D I S T A N C E
-.447 .719 1.886 3.053 4.220
|-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
BLH --------------|
|-------|
SWAMP | | |
|-------------| |---------A------|
HDWTR | | |
| |-----------------------|
PINEFL ----------------------| | |
| |
ESTSS --------------------------------B------| |
|
PLANTN ----------------------------------------C------| |
|---------------|
HDWDFL ---------------------------------| |
|------D------|
ESTFOR ---------------------------------|
RIVERINE DATA vs HYDROLOGY FUNCTION
Percent chaining = 45.45
L O G o f D I S T A N C E
-1.124 -.259 .605 1.469 2.333
|-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
BLH --------------|
|------------------A-------|
SWAMP | | |
|-------------| |
HDWTR | |---------|
| |
PINEFL -------------------------| | |
|-------B-------| |-----------|
ESTFOR -------------------------| | |
| |
PLANTN ---------------------------------| | |
|--------C--------| |
ESTSS ---------------------------------| |
|
HDWDFL ------------------------------------------D--------------------|
FIGURE 6
MULTI-RESPONSE PERMUTATION PROCEDURES (MRPP)
RIVERINE DATA vs ALL INDICATOR FUNCTIONS
INPUT HAS 8 WETLAND
THERE WERE 12 FUNCTIO
WEIGHTING OPTION: C(I) = n(I)/sum(n(I))
DISTANCE MEASURE = Euclidean
GROUP NUMBER 1 OF SIZE 5 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 1.9224570
GROUP NUMBER 2 OF SIZE 3 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 3.6860060
THE TEST STATISTIC IS = -4.3453310
THE OBSERVED DELTA IS = 2.5837878
THE EXPECTED DELTA IS = 4.0305237
THE VARIANCE OF DELTA = .11084926
THE SKEWNESS OF DELTA = -1.7464730
PROBABILITY OF A SMALLER OR EQUAL DELTA = .00384555
RIVERINE DATA vs HYDROLOGY FUNCTION
INPUT HAS 8 WETLAND
THERE WERE 4 FUNCTIO
WEIGHTING OPTION: C(I) = n(I)/sum(n(I))
DISTANCE MEASURE = Euclidean
GROUP NUMBER 1 OF SIZE 3 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = .85879566
GROUP NUMBER 2 OF SIZE 3 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 2.5133439
GROUP NUMBER 3 OF SIZE 2 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 1.1357817
THE TEST STATISTIC IS = -.36402852
THE OBSERVED DELTA IS = 1.5484978
THE EXPECTED DELTA IS = 1.5901126
THE VARIANCE OF DELTA = .13068501E-01
THE SKEWNESS OF DELTA = -.39088442
PROBABILITY OF A SMALLER OR EQUAL DELTA = .33703575
FIGURE 7
RIVERINE DATA vs WATER QUALITY FUNCTION
L O G o f D I S T A N C E
-2.843 -1.784 -.724 .335 1.395
|-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
BLH |
|----------------------------------A------|
HDWTR | |
|----------|
SWAMP -----------------| | |
|----------| | |
ESTFOR -----------------| |------B------| |---------|
| | |
PINEFL ----------------------------| | |
| |
ESTSS --------------------------------------------C--------| |
|
PLANTN -----------------------------------| |
|--------------D------------|
HDWDFL -----------------------------------|
RIVERINE DATA vs HABITAT FUNCTION
Percent chaining = 27.27
L O G o f D I S T A N C E
-2.063 -.552 .959 2.471 3.982
|-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
BLH ------------------------|
|
SWAMP | |------A-------|
|-------------| | |
HDWTR | |---------| |
| |-----------------------|
PINEFL --------------| | |
| |
ESTSS -------------------------------B-------| |
|
PLANTN --------------------------------------C------| |
|-----------------|
HDWDFL --------------------------------| |
|-----D------|
ESTFOR --------------------------------|
FIGURE 8
MULTI-RESPONSE PERMUTATION PROCEDURES (MRPP)
RIVERINE DATA vs WATER QUALITY FUNCTION
INPUT HAS 8 WETLAND
THERE WERE 4 FUNCTIO
WEIGHTING OPTION: C(I) = n(I)/sum(n(I))
DISTANCE MEASURE = Euclidean
GROUP NUMBER 1 OF SIZE 2 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = .34132098
GROUP NUMBER 2 OF SIZE 4 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = .93795927
GROUP NUMBER 3 OF SIZE 2 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = .69462213
THE TEST STATISTIC IS = -2.7977403
THE OBSERVED DELTA IS = .72796541
THE EXPECTED DELTA IS = .99550933
THE VARIANCE OF DELTA = .91448247E-02
THE SKEWNESS OF DELTA = -.71037093
PROBABILITY OF A SMALLER OR EQUAL DELTA = .01057138
RIVERINE DATA vs HABITAT FUNCTION
INPUT HAS 8 WETLAND
THERE WERE 4 FUNCTIO
WEIGHTING OPTION: C(I) = n(I)/sum(n(I))
DISTANCE MEASURE = Euclidean
GROUP NUMBER 1 OF SIZE 5 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 1.3455621
GROUP NUMBER 2 OF SIZE 3 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 2.2937802
THE TEST STATISTIC IS = -4.3764696
THE OBSERVED DELTA IS = 1.7011439
THE EXPECTED DELTA IS = 3.4245902
THE VARIANCE OF DELTA = .15507711
THE SKEWNESS OF DELTA = -1.7829369
PROBABILITY OF A SMALLER OR EQUAL DELTA = .00384718
FIGURE 9
MULTI-RESPONSE PERMUTATION PROCEDURES (MRPP)
FLATS vs ALL INDICATOR FUNCTIONS (-FW MARSH)
INPUT HAS 9 WETLAND
THERE WERE 11 FUNCTIO
WEIGHTING OPTION:
C(I) = n(I)/sum(n(I))
DISTANCE MEASURE = Euclidean
GROUP NUMBER 1 OF SIZE 2 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 1.8320208
GROUP NUMBER 2 OF SIZE 5 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 1.5745250
GROUP NUMBER 3 OF SIZE 2 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 1.5055564
THE TEST STATISTIC IS = -3.2287706
THE OBSERVED DELTA IS = 1.6164200
THE EXPECTED DELTA IS = 2.2551987
THE VARIANCE OF DELTA = .39140512E-01
THE SKEWNESS OF DELTA = -.62947674
PROBABILITY OF A SMALLER OR EQUAL DELTA = .00439497
TABLE 1
OVERALL DATASET
WETLAND TYPES INDICATOR FUNCTIONS
1. FW MAR (Freshwater Marsh) 1. SURF (Surface water)
2. HDWTR (Headwater) 2. SUBSURF (Subsurface water)
3. EST SS (Estuarine Shrub-scrub) 3. VEL RED (Velocity Reduction)
4. POCOSN (Pocosin) 4. GW MOD (Groundwater modification)
5. BLH (Bottomland Hardwood) 5. NUTRAN (Nutrient Transformations)
6. SWAMP (Swamp) 6. PPT (Removal of elements)
7. HDWDFLT (Hardwood Flat) 7. OCEXP (Organic Carbon export)
8. PINE FLT (Pine Flat) 8. SOM (Soil organic matter)
9. PLANTN (Pine Plantation) 9. SPOD (Spodosols)
10. MAR FOR (Maritime Forest) 10. WOOD (Woody retention)
11. EST FOR (Estuarine Forest) 11. REMAT (Removal of dissolved)
12. PLANT (Plant community)
13. VERT (Vertical habitat)
14. DETRIT (Detritus)
15. FOOD (Foodweb support)
TABLE 2
FLATS/DEPRESSIONAL DATASET
WETLAND TYPES INDICATOR FUNCTIONS
HYDROLOGY
1. FW MAR (Freshwater Marsh) 1. SURF (Surface water)
2. EST FOR (Estuarine Forest) 2. SUBSURF (Subsurface water)
3. EST SS (Estuarine Shrub-scrub)
WATER QUALITY
4. POCOSN (Pocosin)
5. HDWTR (Headwater) 3. NUTRAN (Nutrient Transformations)
6. SWAMP (Swamp) 4. PPT (Removal of elements)
7. HDWDFLT (Hardwood Flat) 5. OCEXP (Organic Carbon export)
8. PINE FLT (Pine Flat) 6. SOM (Soil organic matter)
9. PLANTN (Pine Plantation) 7. SPOD (Spodosols)
10. MAR FOR (Maritime Forest)
HABITAT
8. PLANT (Plant community)
9. VERT (Vertical habitat)
10. DETRIT (Detritus)
11. FOOD (Foodweb support)
TABLE 3
RIVERINE DATASET
WETLAND TYPES INDICATOR FUNCTIONS
HYDROLOGY
1. BLH (Bottomland Hardwood) 1. SURF (Surface water)
2. SWAMP (Swamp) 2. SUBSURF (Subsurface water)
3. HDWTR (Headwater) 3. VEL RED (Velocity Reduction)
4. EST FOR (Estuarine Forest) 4. GW MOD (Groundwater modification)
5. EST SS (Estuarine Shrub-scrub) WATER QUALITY
6. PLANTN (Pine Plantation) 5. NUTRAN (Nutrient transformations)
7. HDWDFLT (Hardwood Flat) 6. OCEXP (Organic Carbon Export)
8. PINE FLT (Pine Flat) 7. WOOD (Woody retention)
8. REMAT (Removal of dissolved)
HABITAT
9. PLANT (Plant community)
10. VERT (Vertical habitat)
11. DETRIT (Detritus)
12. FOOD (Foodweb support)
TABLE 4
FLATS/DEPRESSIONAL DATASET
CLUSTERING SUMMARY
ALL HYDROLOGY WATER QUALITY HABITAT
GROUP A SWAMP SWAMP SWAMP SWAMP
HDWTR POCOSN HDWD FLT
EST FOR
EST SS
MAR FOR
HDWTR
GROUP B MAR FOR MAR FOR HDWTR POCOSN
HDWDFLT HDWD FLT PINE FLT
EST FOR HDWTR
EST SS POCOSN
FW MAR
EST SS
EST FOR
GROUP C POCOSN PLANTN PINE FLT PLANTN
PLANTN PINE FLT PLANTN FW MAR
PINE FLT EST FOR
FW MAR MAR FOR
HDWD FLT
GROUP D N/A N/A FW MAR N/A
EST SS
TABLE 5
RIVERINE DATASET
CLUSTERING SUMMARY
ALL HYDROLOGY WATER QUALITY HABITAT
GROUP A BLH BLH BLH BLH
SWAMP SWAMP HDWTR SWAMP
HDWTR HDWTR HDWTR
PINE FLT PINE FLT
GROUP B EST SS PINE FLT SWAMP EST SS
EST FOR EST FOR
PINE FLT
GROUP C PLANTN PLANTN EST SS PLANTN
EST SS
GROUP D HDWDFLT HDWD FLT PLANTN EST FOR
EST FOR HDWD FLT HDWD FLT
TABLE 6
FLATS/DEPRESSIONAL DATASET
MRPP GROUP SUMMARY
ALL HYDROLOGY WATER QUALITY HABITAT
GROUP 1 SWAMP SWAMP SWAMP SWAMP
HDWTR POCOSN POCOSN HDWDFLT
HDWDFLT HDWTR EST FOR
HDWTR EST SS
FW MAR MAR FOR
MAR FOR HDWTR
EST SS
EST FOR
GROUP 2 MAR FOR PLANTN PLANTN POCOSN
HDWDFLT PINEFLT EST FOR PINEFLT
EST FOR PINEFLT
EST SS MAR FOR
HDWDFLT
GROUP 3 POCOSN N/A FW MAR PLANTN
PLANTN EST SS FW MAR
PINEFLT
FW MAR
TABLE 7
RIVERINE DATA
MRPP GROUP SUMMARY
ALL HYDROLOGY WATER QUALITY HABITAT
GROUP 1 BLH BLH BLH BLH
SWAMP SWAMP HDWTR SWAMP
HDWTR HDWTR HDWTR
PINE FLT PINE FLT
EST SS EST SS
GROUP 2 PLANTN PLANTN SWAMP PLANTN
HDWDFLT EST SS EST FOR HDWDFLT
EST FOR HDWDFLT PINE FLT EST FOR
EST SS
GROUP 3 N/A PINE FLT PLANTN N/A
EST FOR HDWDFLT
TABLE 8
FLATS/DEPRESSIONAL DATASET
FUNCTIONAL VALUE SUMMARY
(with Mean indicator scores shown)
ALL HYDROLOGY WATER QUALITY HABITAT
HIGH Swamp Swamp Swamp Swamp
VALUE Hdwtr X=7.67 Pocosin Hdwd flt
X=10.35 Hdwtr Est for
X=10.71 Est ss
Mar for
Hdwtr
X=12.21
MEDIUM Mar for Mar for Fw mar Pocosn
VALUE Hdwd flt Hdwd flt Est ss Pine flt
Est for Hdwtr X=8.06 X=9.41
Est ss Pososn
X=8.60 Fw mar
Est ss
Est for
X=6.32
LOW Pocosn Plantn Pine flt Plantn
VALUE Plantn Pine flt Hdwd flt Fw mar
Pine flt X=5.63 Mar for X=6.46
Fw mar Est for
X=7.47 Plantn
X=7.70
TABLE 9
RIVERINE DATA
FUNCTIONAL VALUE SUMMARY
(with Mean indicator scores)
ALL HYDROLOGY WATER QUALITY HABITAT
HIGH Blh Blh Swamp Blh
VALUE Swamp Swamp Est for Swamp
Hdwtr Hdwtr Pine flt Hdwtr
Pine flt X=9.75 Est ss Pine flt
Est ss X=10.05 Est ss
X=10.22 X=11.46
MEDIUM Plantn Plantn Blh Plantn
VALUE Hdwdflt Est ss Hdwtr Hdwdflt
Est for Hdwdflt X=9.63 Est for
X=8.13 Pine flt X=6.35
Est for
X=8.68
LOW Plantn
VALUE Hdwdflt
X=9.03

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Title	NC-Crews : North Carolina coastal region evaluation of wetland significance
Other Title	Report of the strategic plan for improving coastal management in North Carolina
Contributor	Sutter, Lori. United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Region IV. United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. NOAA National Marine Fisheries. North Carolina. Division of Water Quality, WEtlands / 401 Unit. North Carolina Wetlands Restoration Program. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. North Carolina. Division of Coastal Management.
Date	1999-05
Subjects	Wetland conservation--North Carolina Geographic information systems Coastal zone management--North Carolina Wetland ecology--North Carolina
Place	North Carolina, United States
Description	"May 1999."; "Performed under the Coastal Zone Enhancements Grants Program"--Cover.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-103).; "The preparation of this report was financed by funds provided by the United States Environmental Protection Agency; Wetlands Coastal and Water Quality Branch... A publication of the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources pursuant to the United States Environmental Protection Agency Award No. 994548-94-5."
Publisher	North Carolina Division of Coastal Management, Dept. of Environmental and Natural Resources?]
Agency-Current	North Carolina Division of Coastal Management, Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Rights	State Document see http://digital.ncdcr.gov/u?/p249901coll22,63754
Physical Characteristics	vi, 103 p. ; 28 cm.
Collection	North Carolina State Documents Collection. State Library of North Carolina
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Language	English
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Full Text	Water Quality Rating WQF01 Hydrology Rating HYF01 Habitat Rating HAF01 Overall Wetland Rating OWR01 Interior Habitat Size haf01111 Availability of Water haf01112 Internal Heterogeneity haf01113 Wetland Type haf01114 Internal Habitat haf0111 Wetland Juxtaposition haf01121 Surrounding Habitat haf01122 Landscape Habitat haf0112 Corridor Functions haf01131 Island Functions haf01132 Movement System haf0113 Terrestrial Wildlife haf011 Anadromous Fish haf0121 Other Fish haf0122 Wetland Type haf01231 Surrounding Habitat haf01232 Amphib./Invertebrate Habitat haf0123 Aquatic Life haf012 Habitat Function haf01 ≤ ≥ ≥ ≤ ≤ ≥ ≥ FIGURE 1 FLATS DATA vs ALL INDICATOR FUNCTIONS Percent chaining = 10.00 L O G o f D I S T A N C E -1.119 .040 1.200 2.360 3.519 \|-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+ SWAMP -----------------------------------\| \|-----------A----\| HDWTR -----------------------------------\| \| \| MARFOR ------------\| \|---------\| \|---------\| \| \| HDWDFL \| \| \| \| \| \|-----------\| \|-------------------------B---\| \| ESTFOR \| \| \| \| \| ESTSS ----------------------\| \| \| POCOSN -----------------------------------------------\| \| \| \| PLANTN -----------------------------\| \|---C----------\| \|-----------\| \| PINEFL -----------------------------\| \|-----\| \| FWMAR -----------------------------------------\| FLATS DATA vs HYDROLOGY FUNCTION Percent chaining = 45.00 L O G o f D I S T A N C E -6.685 -4.769 -2.854 -.939 .976 \|-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+ SWAMP ----------------------------------------------------A---------\| \| POCOSN ---------------------\| \| \|---\| \| HDWDFL ---------------------\| \| \| \|-------\| \| HDWTR \| \| \| \| \|------------------------\| \|----\| \| FWMAR \| \| \| \| \| \| \| MARFOR ---------------------------------\| \|------------B----\| \| \| \| \| ESTSS ------------\| \| \| \| \|-------------------------\| \|-----\| ESTFOR ------------\| \| \| PLANTN --------------------------------------------\| \| \|-----C-----\| PINEFL --------------------------------------------\| FIGURE 2 MULTI-RESPONSE PERMUTATION PROCEDURES (MRPP) FLATS vs ALL INDICATOR FUNCTIONS INPUT HAS 10 WETLAND THERE WERE 11 FUNCTIO WEIGHTING OPTION: C(I) = n(I)/sum(n(I)) DISTANCE MEASURE = Euclidean GROUP NUMBER 1 OF SIZE 2 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 1.8320208 GROUP NUMBER 2 OF SIZE 4 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 2.1452494 GROUP NUMBER 3 OF SIZE 4 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 1.0824680 THE TEST STATISTIC IS = -3.9489068 THE OBSERVED DELTA IS = 1.6574911 THE EXPECTED DELTA IS = 2.5205177 THE VARIANCE OF DELTA = .47763328E-01 THE SKEWNESS OF DELTA = -.80530833 PROBABILITY OF A SMALLER OR EQUAL DELTA = .00170269 FLATS vs HYDROLOGY INPUT HAS 10 WETLAND THERE WERE 2 FUNCTIO WEIGHTING OPTION: C(I) = n(I)/sum(n(I)) DISTANCE MEASURE = Euclidean GROUP NUMBER 1 OF SIZE 8 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = .42669679 GROUP NUMBER 2 OF SIZE 2 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = .52009598 THE TEST STATISTIC IS = -4.5671409 THE OBSERVED DELTA IS = .44537663 THE EXPECTED DELTA IS = .60609777 THE VARIANCE OF DELTA = .12383893E-02 THE SKEWNESS OF DELTA = -2.2842500 PROBABILITY OF A SMALLER OR EQUAL DELTA = .00471710 FIGURE 3 FLATS DATA vs WATER QUALITY FUNCTION CLUSTER ANALYSIS, EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE WARD’S METHOD Percent chaining = 10.00 L O G o f D I S T A N C E -2.507 -1.361 -.216 .929 2.074 \|-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+ SWAMP ----------------------------\| \|-----------------A----\| POCOSN ----------------------------\| \|-----------\| \| \| HDWTR ----------------------------------------------B----\| \| \| PLANTN ----------\| \| \|-------------------------\| \| ESTFOR ----------\| \| \| \|------C---\| \| PINEFL --------------------\| \| \| \| \|---------------\| \| \| MARFOR \| \| \| \| \|-------------------\| \|---------------\| HDWDFL \| \| \| FWMAR ------------------------------------------\| \| \|-D--\| ESTSS ------------------------------------------\| FLATS DATA vs HABITAT FUNCTION CLUSTER ANALYSIS, EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE WARD’S METHOD Percent chaining = 20.00 L O G o f D I S T A N C E -3.058 -1.508 .042 1.592 3.142 \|-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+ SWAMP -----------------\| \|--------\| HDWDFL -------\| \| \| \|---------\| \|-----\| ESTFOR -------\| \| \| \| \|----------\| ESTSS --------------------------\| \| \| \| \|------A------------\| MARFOR --------------------------------\| \| \| \| \| HDWTR -------------------------------------------\| \| \| POCOSN \| \| \|------------------------------------------B------\| \| PINEFL \| \| \| \|------------\| PLANTN ------------------------------------\| \| \|------C------\| FWMAR ------------------------------------\| FIGURE 4 MULTI-RESPONSE PERMUTATION PROCEDURES (MRPP) FLATS DATA vs WATER QUALITY FUNCTION INPUT HAS 10 WETLAND THERE WERE 5 FUNCTIO WEIGHTING OPTION: C(I) = n(I)/sum(n(I)) DISTANCE MEASURE = Euclidean GROUP NUMBER 1 OF SIZE 3 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 1.0432764 GROUP NUMBER 2 OF SIZE 5 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = .65312513 GROUP NUMBER 3 OF SIZE 2 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 1.1060742 THE TEST STATISTIC IS = -3.5193961 THE OBSERVED DELTA IS = .86076030 THE EXPECTED DELTA IS = 1.2377404 THE VARIANCE OF DELTA = .11473620E-01 THE SKEWNESS OF DELTA = -.75876056 PROBABILITY OF A SMALLER OR EQUAL DELTA = .00328094 FLATS DATA vs HABITAT FUNCTION INPUT HAS 10 WETLAND THERE WERE 4 FUNCTIO WEIGHTING OPTION: C(I) = n(I)/sum(n(I)) DISTANCE MEASURE = Euclidean GROUP NUMBER 1 OF SIZE 6 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = .97239887 GROUP NUMBER 2 OF SIZE 2 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = .30659426 GROUP NUMBER 3 OF SIZE 2 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 1.1099998 THE TEST STATISTIC IS = -4.1097749 THE OBSERVED DELTA IS = .86675814 THE EXPECTED DELTA IS = 1.9302940 THE VARIANCE OF DELTA = .66968136E-01 THE SKEWNESS OF DELTA = -.77009040 PROBABILITY OF A SMALLER OR EQUAL DELTA = .00117972 FIGURE 5 RIVERINE DATA vs ALL INDICATOR FUNCTIONS Percent chaining = 27.27 L O G o f D I S T A N C E -.447 .719 1.886 3.053 4.220 \|-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+ BLH --------------\| \|-------\| SWAMP \| \| \| \|-------------\| \|---------A------\| HDWTR \| \| \| \| \|-----------------------\| PINEFL ----------------------\| \| \| \| \| ESTSS --------------------------------B------\| \| \| PLANTN ----------------------------------------C------\| \| \|---------------\| HDWDFL ---------------------------------\| \| \|------D------\| ESTFOR ---------------------------------\| RIVERINE DATA vs HYDROLOGY FUNCTION Percent chaining = 45.45 L O G o f D I S T A N C E -1.124 -.259 .605 1.469 2.333 \|-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+ BLH --------------\| \|------------------A-------\| SWAMP \| \| \| \|-------------\| \| HDWTR \| \|---------\| \| \| PINEFL -------------------------\| \| \| \|-------B-------\| \|-----------\| ESTFOR -------------------------\| \| \| \| \| PLANTN ---------------------------------\| \| \| \|--------C--------\| \| ESTSS ---------------------------------\| \| \| HDWDFL ------------------------------------------D--------------------\| FIGURE 6 MULTI-RESPONSE PERMUTATION PROCEDURES (MRPP) RIVERINE DATA vs ALL INDICATOR FUNCTIONS INPUT HAS 8 WETLAND THERE WERE 12 FUNCTIO WEIGHTING OPTION: C(I) = n(I)/sum(n(I)) DISTANCE MEASURE = Euclidean GROUP NUMBER 1 OF SIZE 5 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 1.9224570 GROUP NUMBER 2 OF SIZE 3 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 3.6860060 THE TEST STATISTIC IS = -4.3453310 THE OBSERVED DELTA IS = 2.5837878 THE EXPECTED DELTA IS = 4.0305237 THE VARIANCE OF DELTA = .11084926 THE SKEWNESS OF DELTA = -1.7464730 PROBABILITY OF A SMALLER OR EQUAL DELTA = .00384555 RIVERINE DATA vs HYDROLOGY FUNCTION INPUT HAS 8 WETLAND THERE WERE 4 FUNCTIO WEIGHTING OPTION: C(I) = n(I)/sum(n(I)) DISTANCE MEASURE = Euclidean GROUP NUMBER 1 OF SIZE 3 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = .85879566 GROUP NUMBER 2 OF SIZE 3 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 2.5133439 GROUP NUMBER 3 OF SIZE 2 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 1.1357817 THE TEST STATISTIC IS = -.36402852 THE OBSERVED DELTA IS = 1.5484978 THE EXPECTED DELTA IS = 1.5901126 THE VARIANCE OF DELTA = .13068501E-01 THE SKEWNESS OF DELTA = -.39088442 PROBABILITY OF A SMALLER OR EQUAL DELTA = .33703575 FIGURE 7 RIVERINE DATA vs WATER QUALITY FUNCTION L O G o f D I S T A N C E -2.843 -1.784 -.724 .335 1.395 \|-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+ BLH \| \|----------------------------------A------\| HDWTR \| \| \|----------\| SWAMP -----------------\| \| \| \|----------\| \| \| ESTFOR -----------------\| \|------B------\| \|---------\| \| \| \| PINEFL ----------------------------\| \| \| \| \| ESTSS --------------------------------------------C--------\| \| \| PLANTN -----------------------------------\| \| \|--------------D------------\| HDWDFL -----------------------------------\| RIVERINE DATA vs HABITAT FUNCTION Percent chaining = 27.27 L O G o f D I S T A N C E -2.063 -.552 .959 2.471 3.982 \|-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+ BLH ------------------------\| \| SWAMP \| \|------A-------\| \|-------------\| \| \| HDWTR \| \|---------\| \| \| \|-----------------------\| PINEFL --------------\| \| \| \| \| ESTSS -------------------------------B-------\| \| \| PLANTN --------------------------------------C------\| \| \|-----------------\| HDWDFL --------------------------------\| \| \|-----D------\| ESTFOR --------------------------------\| FIGURE 8 MULTI-RESPONSE PERMUTATION PROCEDURES (MRPP) RIVERINE DATA vs WATER QUALITY FUNCTION INPUT HAS 8 WETLAND THERE WERE 4 FUNCTIO WEIGHTING OPTION: C(I) = n(I)/sum(n(I)) DISTANCE MEASURE = Euclidean GROUP NUMBER 1 OF SIZE 2 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = .34132098 GROUP NUMBER 2 OF SIZE 4 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = .93795927 GROUP NUMBER 3 OF SIZE 2 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = .69462213 THE TEST STATISTIC IS = -2.7977403 THE OBSERVED DELTA IS = .72796541 THE EXPECTED DELTA IS = .99550933 THE VARIANCE OF DELTA = .91448247E-02 THE SKEWNESS OF DELTA = -.71037093 PROBABILITY OF A SMALLER OR EQUAL DELTA = .01057138 RIVERINE DATA vs HABITAT FUNCTION INPUT HAS 8 WETLAND THERE WERE 4 FUNCTIO WEIGHTING OPTION: C(I) = n(I)/sum(n(I)) DISTANCE MEASURE = Euclidean GROUP NUMBER 1 OF SIZE 5 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 1.3455621 GROUP NUMBER 2 OF SIZE 3 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 2.2937802 THE TEST STATISTIC IS = -4.3764696 THE OBSERVED DELTA IS = 1.7011439 THE EXPECTED DELTA IS = 3.4245902 THE VARIANCE OF DELTA = .15507711 THE SKEWNESS OF DELTA = -1.7829369 PROBABILITY OF A SMALLER OR EQUAL DELTA = .00384718 FIGURE 9 MULTI-RESPONSE PERMUTATION PROCEDURES (MRPP) FLATS vs ALL INDICATOR FUNCTIONS (-FW MARSH) INPUT HAS 9 WETLAND THERE WERE 11 FUNCTIO WEIGHTING OPTION: C(I) = n(I)/sum(n(I)) DISTANCE MEASURE = Euclidean GROUP NUMBER 1 OF SIZE 2 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 1.8320208 GROUP NUMBER 2 OF SIZE 5 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 1.5745250 GROUP NUMBER 3 OF SIZE 2 HAS AN AVERAGE DISTANCE = 1.5055564 THE TEST STATISTIC IS = -3.2287706 THE OBSERVED DELTA IS = 1.6164200 THE EXPECTED DELTA IS = 2.2551987 THE VARIANCE OF DELTA = .39140512E-01 THE SKEWNESS OF DELTA = -.62947674 PROBABILITY OF A SMALLER OR EQUAL DELTA = .00439497 TABLE 1 OVERALL DATASET WETLAND TYPES INDICATOR FUNCTIONS 1. FW MAR (Freshwater Marsh) 1. SURF (Surface water) 2. HDWTR (Headwater) 2. SUBSURF (Subsurface water) 3. EST SS (Estuarine Shrub-scrub) 3. VEL RED (Velocity Reduction) 4. POCOSN (Pocosin) 4. GW MOD (Groundwater modification) 5. BLH (Bottomland Hardwood) 5. NUTRAN (Nutrient Transformations) 6. SWAMP (Swamp) 6. PPT (Removal of elements) 7. HDWDFLT (Hardwood Flat) 7. OCEXP (Organic Carbon export) 8. PINE FLT (Pine Flat) 8. SOM (Soil organic matter) 9. PLANTN (Pine Plantation) 9. SPOD (Spodosols) 10. MAR FOR (Maritime Forest) 10. WOOD (Woody retention) 11. EST FOR (Estuarine Forest) 11. REMAT (Removal of dissolved) 12. PLANT (Plant community) 13. VERT (Vertical habitat) 14. DETRIT (Detritus) 15. FOOD (Foodweb support) TABLE 2 FLATS/DEPRESSIONAL DATASET WETLAND TYPES INDICATOR FUNCTIONS HYDROLOGY 1. FW MAR (Freshwater Marsh) 1. SURF (Surface water) 2. EST FOR (Estuarine Forest) 2. SUBSURF (Subsurface water) 3. EST SS (Estuarine Shrub-scrub) WATER QUALITY 4. POCOSN (Pocosin) 5. HDWTR (Headwater) 3. NUTRAN (Nutrient Transformations) 6. SWAMP (Swamp) 4. PPT (Removal of elements) 7. HDWDFLT (Hardwood Flat) 5. OCEXP (Organic Carbon export) 8. PINE FLT (Pine Flat) 6. SOM (Soil organic matter) 9. PLANTN (Pine Plantation) 7. SPOD (Spodosols) 10. MAR FOR (Maritime Forest) HABITAT 8. PLANT (Plant community) 9. VERT (Vertical habitat) 10. DETRIT (Detritus) 11. FOOD (Foodweb support) TABLE 3 RIVERINE DATASET WETLAND TYPES INDICATOR FUNCTIONS HYDROLOGY 1. BLH (Bottomland Hardwood) 1. SURF (Surface water) 2. SWAMP (Swamp) 2. SUBSURF (Subsurface water) 3. HDWTR (Headwater) 3. VEL RED (Velocity Reduction) 4. EST FOR (Estuarine Forest) 4. GW MOD (Groundwater modification) 5. EST SS (Estuarine Shrub-scrub) WATER QUALITY 6. PLANTN (Pine Plantation) 5. NUTRAN (Nutrient transformations) 7. HDWDFLT (Hardwood Flat) 6. OCEXP (Organic Carbon Export) 8. PINE FLT (Pine Flat) 7. WOOD (Woody retention) 8. REMAT (Removal of dissolved) HABITAT 9. PLANT (Plant community) 10. VERT (Vertical habitat) 11. DETRIT (Detritus) 12. FOOD (Foodweb support) TABLE 4 FLATS/DEPRESSIONAL DATASET CLUSTERING SUMMARY ALL HYDROLOGY WATER QUALITY HABITAT GROUP A SWAMP SWAMP SWAMP SWAMP HDWTR POCOSN HDWD FLT EST FOR EST SS MAR FOR HDWTR GROUP B MAR FOR MAR FOR HDWTR POCOSN HDWDFLT HDWD FLT PINE FLT EST FOR HDWTR EST SS POCOSN FW MAR EST SS EST FOR GROUP C POCOSN PLANTN PINE FLT PLANTN PLANTN PINE FLT PLANTN FW MAR PINE FLT EST FOR FW MAR MAR FOR HDWD FLT GROUP D N/A N/A FW MAR N/A EST SS TABLE 5 RIVERINE DATASET CLUSTERING SUMMARY ALL HYDROLOGY WATER QUALITY HABITAT GROUP A BLH BLH BLH BLH SWAMP SWAMP HDWTR SWAMP HDWTR HDWTR HDWTR PINE FLT PINE FLT GROUP B EST SS PINE FLT SWAMP EST SS EST FOR EST FOR PINE FLT GROUP C PLANTN PLANTN EST SS PLANTN EST SS GROUP D HDWDFLT HDWD FLT PLANTN EST FOR EST FOR HDWD FLT HDWD FLT TABLE 6 FLATS/DEPRESSIONAL DATASET MRPP GROUP SUMMARY ALL HYDROLOGY WATER QUALITY HABITAT GROUP 1 SWAMP SWAMP SWAMP SWAMP HDWTR POCOSN POCOSN HDWDFLT HDWDFLT HDWTR EST FOR HDWTR EST SS FW MAR MAR FOR MAR FOR HDWTR EST SS EST FOR GROUP 2 MAR FOR PLANTN PLANTN POCOSN HDWDFLT PINEFLT EST FOR PINEFLT EST FOR PINEFLT EST SS MAR FOR HDWDFLT GROUP 3 POCOSN N/A FW MAR PLANTN PLANTN EST SS FW MAR PINEFLT FW MAR TABLE 7 RIVERINE DATA MRPP GROUP SUMMARY ALL HYDROLOGY WATER QUALITY HABITAT GROUP 1 BLH BLH BLH BLH SWAMP SWAMP HDWTR SWAMP HDWTR HDWTR HDWTR PINE FLT PINE FLT EST SS EST SS GROUP 2 PLANTN PLANTN SWAMP PLANTN HDWDFLT EST SS EST FOR HDWDFLT EST FOR HDWDFLT PINE FLT EST FOR EST SS GROUP 3 N/A PINE FLT PLANTN N/A EST FOR HDWDFLT TABLE 8 FLATS/DEPRESSIONAL DATASET FUNCTIONAL VALUE SUMMARY (with Mean indicator scores shown) ALL HYDROLOGY WATER QUALITY HABITAT HIGH Swamp Swamp Swamp Swamp VALUE Hdwtr X=7.67 Pocosin Hdwd flt X=10.35 Hdwtr Est for X=10.71 Est ss Mar for Hdwtr X=12.21 MEDIUM Mar for Mar for Fw mar Pocosn VALUE Hdwd flt Hdwd flt Est ss Pine flt Est for Hdwtr X=8.06 X=9.41 Est ss Pososn X=8.60 Fw mar Est ss Est for X=6.32 LOW Pocosn Plantn Pine flt Plantn VALUE Plantn Pine flt Hdwd flt Fw mar Pine flt X=5.63 Mar for X=6.46 Fw mar Est for X=7.47 Plantn X=7.70 TABLE 9 RIVERINE DATA FUNCTIONAL VALUE SUMMARY (with Mean indicator scores) ALL HYDROLOGY WATER QUALITY HABITAT HIGH Blh Blh Swamp Blh VALUE Swamp Swamp Est for Swamp Hdwtr Hdwtr Pine flt Hdwtr Pine flt X=9.75 Est ss Pine flt Est ss X=10.05 Est ss X=10.22 X=11.46 MEDIUM Plantn Plantn Blh Plantn VALUE Hdwdflt Est ss Hdwtr Hdwdflt Est for Hdwdflt X=9.63 Est for X=8.13 Pine flt X=6.35 Est for X=8.68 LOW Plantn VALUE Hdwdflt X=9.03
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NC-Crews : North Carolina coastal region evaluation of wetland significance

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