A NC Natural Heritage Program report (2001), developed from the Classification of the Natural Communities of North Carolina (Schafale and Weakley 1990), was used as the basis for terrestrial habitat designations. Through Technical Committee feedback, designations were modified to improve the scale and specificity of particular habitats with respect to the conservation needs addressed in the Plan. This resulted in a total of 23 habitat types. A crosswalk was developed between these designations and the 1992 NC Gap Analysis Program (NC GAP) land cover classification in order to standardize habitat labels for mapping purposes (Appendix F of NC WAP). Habitats were linked to ecoregions using designations based on Bailey (1995) (Figure 2.2, Table 2.15 of NC WAP).See Appendix F that provides a crosswalk between NC Wildlife Action Plan habitat labels and North Carolina Gap Analysis Program 1992 land cover types. [ - ]

A NC Natural Heritage Program report (2001), developed from the Classification of the Natural... [ + ]