ORAL PRESENTATION CO-AUTHOR: David Bart (UW-Madison) TITLE: Cross examining Wisconsin’s herbaceous wetland community types against hundreds of high-quality site surveys ABSTRACT: Many are familiar with the archetypical wetland community types described in The Vegetation of Wisconsin (Curtis, 1959) and later refined in The Ecological Landscapes of Wisconsin. Part 1 (Wisconsin DNR, 2015, Ch7), but how do these constructs fare when tested against hydrogeologic, morphologic, and floristic survey data from hundreds of real-world sites? I will discuss results of an exploratory multivariate analysis examining factors influencing floristic composition in herbaceous wetlands across Wisconsin, what they say about our current understanding of community types, and ways in which these community models might be improved. BIO: Chris Noll has been exploring, documenting, and studying Wisconsin's wetlands for over a decade. Since 2015, he has inventoried vegetation at more than 400 sites, overhauled the Wisconsin DNR's wetland mapping methods, published hundreds of square miles of wetland maps, and planned wetland restorations. He is currently finishing an master's degree in landscape architecture at UW-Madison studying the flora of herbaceous wetlands.