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Table A -5. Cover Data - Aspen Reference Area, Seneca IIW Mine, SCC, Routt Co., CO - 2011 <br />PLANT SPECIES <br />Standing dead <br />Litter <br />Bare soil <br />TOTALS <br />TOTAL VEGETATION COVER <br />GROUND COVER (Litter +Rock +Veg +St.Dead) <br />SPECIES DENSITY (# of species /100 sq.m.) <br />(AVERAGE= 40.1 Std.Dev.= 8.9) <br />FIRST HIT RELATIVE ALL HIT RELATIVE <br />AVERAGE VEGETATION AVERAGE VEGETATION <br />COVER' FREQUENCY COVER` COVER COVER <br />( %) ( %) ( %) ( %) ( %) <br />0.40 33.33 0.40 <br />5.20 100.00 5.20 <br />3.13 93.33 3.13 <br />100.0 156.8 <br />91.3 (s =3.9) <br />100.0 148.1 (s =20.5) 100.0 <br />96.9 153.7 <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 occurred <br />° First Hit Relative Cover = Percent of the First Hit vegetation cover comprised <br />of this species or lifeform <br />d All Hit Cover = Absolute percent cover in vertical view accounting for all cover <br />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 of <br />this species or lifeform <br />'P= Present within 1 m. on either side of cover transect, but not quantitatively encountered. <br />()= Data in parentheses represent other hits that are used in conjunction with first hits for cover all statistics. <br />Page 4 of 12 <br />