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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Nov 8.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Pollut. 2017 Dec 21;234:902–914. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2017.12.002

Table 1.

List of indicator species used for VSD+PROPS modeling at Hubbard Brook, Piney River, and Cosby Creek.

Indicator Species
Scientific Name Common Name Life Form # of Occurrences for PROPS Hubbard Brook Piney River Cosby Creek

Acer pensylvanicum striped maple tree 103 x x x
Acer saccharum sugar maple tree 266 x x
Actaea racemosa black baneberry herb 34 x
Ageratina altissima white snakerooot herb 207 x
Carya ovata shagbark hickory tree 63 x

Dennstaedtia punctilobula eastern hayscented fern fern 117 x
Dryopteris intermedia intermediate woodfern fern 168 x
Fagus grandifolia American beech tree 196 x
Fraxinus americana white ash tree 284 x x
Hydrophyllum virginianum eastern waterleaf herb 36 x

Laportea canadensis wood nettle herb 72 x
Maianthemum racemosum feathery false lily of the valley herb 317 x x
Medeola virginiana Indian cucumber herb 128 x
Oxalis montana mountain woodsorrel herb 89 x
Picea rubens red spruce tree 68 x

Prunus virginiana choke cherry tree 133 x
Quercus alba white oak tree 151 x
Quercus rubra northern red oak tree 185 x
Trientalis borealis starflower herb 427 x
Trillium undulatum painted trillium herb 78 x