Plants

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Features

- Assessments are used to locate rare and endangered plants and natural communities to determine if proposed projects will result in avoidable losses.
- Vegetation communities have characteristics that are constantly changing, such as how they are distributed, what they are composed of, and what type of land they cover. These changes can occur naturally over time, or they can be caused by environmental stressors.
- Ecological land classification (ELC) is a common hierarchical framework and terminology for classifying ecologically distinctive areas. It is a process of delineating and classifying ecologically distinctive areas of the surface.