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Classification of Natural Communities

Palustrine

The individual descriptions are below:

 

List of Palustrine Communities
Acidic Graminoid Fen Inland Acidic Pondshore/Lakeshore
Acidic Shrub Fen Inland Atlantic White Cedar Swamp
Alluvial Atlantic White Cedar Swamp Kettlehole Level Bog
Alluvial Hardwood Flats (2011) Kettlehole Wet Meadow
Alluvial Red Maple Swamp Level Bog
Atlantic White Cedar Bog Low-Energy Riverbank
Black Ash Red-Maple-Tamarack Calcareous Seepage Swamp (Revised 2011) Major-River Floodplain Forest
Black Ash Swamp (Revised 2011) Mud Flat
Black Gum-Pin Oak-Swamp White Oak "Perched" Swamp Northern Atlantic White Cedar Swamp
Black Gum Swamp Red Maple Swamp
Calcareous Basin Fen Red Maple-Black Ash-Bur Oak Swamp (2011)
Calcareous Pondshore/Lakeshore Red Spruce Swamp
Calcareous Seepage Marsh Rich Conifer Swamp (2011)
Calcareous Sloping Fen Riverine Pointbar And Beach
Coastal Atlantic White Cedar Swamp Riverside Seep
Coastal Interdunal Marsh/Swale Sea-Level Fen
Coastal Plain Pondshore Shallow Emergent Marsh
Cobble Bar Forest Shrub Swamp
Deep Emergent Marsh Small-River Floodplain Forest
Hemlock Hardwood Swamp (Revised & Renamed 2011) Spruce-Fir Boreal Swamp (Revised & Renamed 2011)
Hemlock Swamp Spruce-Tamarack Bog
Highbush Blueberry Thicket Transitional Floodplain Forest
High-Energy Riverbank Wet Meadow
High-Terrace Floodplain Forest Woodland Vernal Pool

 

Updated: 08/25/2011