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Classification of Natural Communities

Palustrine

For a single document with all the palustrine community descriptions click here; the individual descriptions are below:

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

Updated: 09/10/2007