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Table A -7. Cover Data - Sagebrush Reference Area, Seneca II Mine, Seneca Coal Company, Routt Co., CO - 2011 <br />BRYOPHYTES <br />FIRST HIT <br />ALL HIT <br />FIRST HIT <br />RELATIVE <br />ALL HIT <br />RELATIVE <br />PLANT SPECIES AVERAGE <br />VEGETATION <br />AVERAGE <br />VEGETATION <br />COVERS <br />FREQUENCY° COVER` <br />COVER° <br />COVERS <br />( %) <br />(%) (%) <br />(%) <br />( %) <br />BRYOPHYTES <br />Moss <br />0.00 <br />6.67 <br />0.00 <br />0.00 <br />0.00 <br />TOTAL BRYOPHYTES <br />0.0 <br />6.7 <br />0.0 <br />0.0 <br />0.0 <br />MUSHROOMS <br />Mushroom <br />0.00 <br />13.33 <br />0.00 <br />0.00 <br />0.00 <br />TOTAL MUSHROOMS <br />0.0 <br />13.3 <br />0.0 <br />0.0 <br />0.0 <br />Standing dead <br />0.53 <br />40.00 <br />0.53 <br />Litter <br />16.07 <br />100.00 <br />16.07 <br />Bare soil <br />9.13 <br />100.00 <br />9.13 <br />TOTALS <br />100.0 <br />102.8 <br />TOTAL VEGETATION COVER <br />74.3 (s =5.9) <br />100.0 <br />77.1 (s =6.6) <br />100.0 <br />GROUND COVER (Litter +Rock +Veg +St.Dead) <br />90.9 <br />93.7 <br />SPECIES DENSITY (# of species /100 sq.m.) <br />(AVERAGE= 33.4 Std.Dev.= 5.9) <br />a First Hit Cover = Absolute percent cover in vertical view with no account of <br />plants obscured by first (i.e. top) hit. <br />b Frequency = Percent of the samples in which a species or lifeform <br />occurred <br />° First Hit Relative Cover = Percent of the First Hit vegetation cover <br />comprised of this species or lifeform <br />°AII Hit Cover = Absolute percent cover in vertical view accounting for all <br />cover by the species or lifeform, whether over- arched by other plants or not <br />e All Hit Relative Cover = Percent of the All Hit vegetation cover comprised <br />of this species or lifeform <br />Page 3 of 6 <br />•P= Present within 1 m. on either side of cover transect, but not quantitatively encountered. <br />() =Data in parens. = 2nd hits. A 1st hit is top -most layer of vegetation, below 1st hit interceptions may exist other interceptions - these are 2nd hits. <br />