This report, titled “The Natural Communities and Flora of Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum”, produced detailed botanical inventories of each natural area on the four properties, as well as Floristic Quality Assessment for each. Natural...
A spreadsheet containing records of all prescribed burns that have occurred at our properties, including the year, location, and season. Please refer to the Prescribed Burn Web Map for burn area boundaries.
A file geodatabase of burn units in Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum dating back to 2004. Layers are separated by property and year in corresponding Feature Layer Datasets ("Arboretum_Burns" and "Botanical_Gardens_Burns"). Also...
Polygon shapefile of natural communities surveyed in 2011-2012 on all four properties
Natural features, landcover type, natural communities and soil disturbance data resulting from the botanical surveys conducted in 2011-2012, in ESRI File Geodatabase format
Summarized results of Floristic Quality Assessment at all four properties, arranged by plant community type. Complete plant inventories are not included. For more information on FQA, see:...
Summarized results of Floristic Quality Assessment at all four properties, arranged by property. Complete plant inventories are not included. For more information on FQA, see:...
Description of the degree to which each natural area represents an imperiled ecosystem. For ranking criteria, see: http://mnfi.anr.msu.edu/communities/ranking.cfm
Brief descriptions of the maps currently available on this page
Brief descriptions of the data resources currently available on this page
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