Classification of Wetlands and Deepwater Habitats of the U. S.The classification system contained in this report was developed by wetland ecologists, with the assistance of many private individuals and organizations and local, State, and Federal agencies. Includes scientific and common names of plants and animals, glossary of terms, and much more. Over 80 b/w photos. |
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Alaska algae areal cover areas bedrock black spruce clam CLASS Emergent Wetland CLASS Unconsolidated Shore classification system Coastal cordgrass County Deciduous deepwater habitats Dominance Types ecology Estuarine Estuarine Systems Examples of Dominance F. C. Golet Fish and Wildlife Forested Wetland grass habitats halophytes Histosols hydric soils hydrophytes Island Lacustrine lake lichens Marine and Estuarine marshes mineral soil mollusks namea Nonpersistent oligochaete organic soil material Palustrine Palustrine Systems Photo by F. C. Picea mariana Plate Reef REGIME Permanently Flooded REGIME Regularly Flooded REGIME Seasonally Flooded Riverine System Rock Bottom Rocky Shore salinity salts SOIL Mineral species Streambed Stutsman County SUBCLASS SUBCLASS Mud SUBCLASS Persistent Subordinate plants include substrate SUBSYSTEM Intertidal Subtidal surface SYSTEM Estuarine SYSTEM Palustrine SYSTEM Riverine Taxodium distichum Temporarily Flooded tides U.S. Fish vegetation Washington County WATER CHEMISTRY Fresh WATER CHEMISTRY Mixohaline WATER REGIME WATER REGIME Permanently WATER REGIME Regularly wetland classification wetlands and deepwater worms Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta zone
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Page 7 - Estuary" means that part of a river or stream or other body of water having unimpaired connection with the open sea, where the sea water is measurably diluted with fresh water derived from land drainage.
Page 3 - For purposes of this classification, wetlands must have one or more of the following three attributes: (1) at least periodically, the land supports predominantly hydrophytes, (2) the substrate is predominantly undrained hydric soil, and (3) the substrate is nonsoil and is saturated with water or covered by shallow water at some time during the growing season of each year.
Page 7 - The part of a body of water deep enough to be used for navigation through an area otherwise too shallow for navigation.
Page 5 - Wetland Rock Bottom Unconsolidated Bottom Aquatic Bed Rocky Shore Unconsolidated Shore Emergent Wetland Rock Bottom Unconsolidated Bottom Aquatic Bed Rocky Shore Unconsolidated Shore Emergent Wetland Rock Bottom Unconsolidated Bottom Aquatic Bed Rocky Shore Unconsolidated Shore...
Page 3 - Wetlands are lands transitional between terrestrial and aquatic systems where the water table is usually at or near the surface or the land is covered by shallow water....
Page 4 - ... obstructed, or sporadic access to the open ocean, and in which ocean water is at least occasionally diluted by freshwater runoff from the land.
Page 10 - Rock Bottom Unconsolidated Bottom Aquatic Bed Rock Bottom Unconsolidated Bottom Aquatic Bed Rocky Shore Unconsolidated Shore Emergent Wetland Rock Bottom Unconsolidated Bottom Aquatic Bed Unconsolidated Shore Moss-Lichen Wetland Emergent Wetland Scrub-Shrub Wetland Forested Wetland FIGURE 3.23 Classification hierarchy of wetlands and deepwater habitats, showing systems, subsystems, and classes.
Page 3 - In general terms, wetlands are lands where saturation with water is the dominant factor determining the nature of soil development and the types of plant and animal communities living in the soil and on its surface.
Page 1 - Within the Subsystems, Classes are based on substrate material and flooding regime, or on vegetative life form. The same Classes may appear under one or more of the Systems or Subsystems.
Page 3 - The upland limit of wetland is designated as (1) the boundary between land with predominantly hydrophytic cover and land with predominantly mesophytic or xerophytic cover; (2) the boundary between soil that is predominantly hydric and soil that is predominantly non-hydric; or (3) in the case of wetlands without vegetation or soil, the boundary between land that is flooded or saturated at some time each year and land that is not.