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Ecological Communities
Acidic talus slope woodland
Acidified lake
Acidified stream
Allegheny oak forest
Alpine krummholz
Alpine sliding fen
Alvar pavement grassland
Alvar shrubland
Alvar woodland
Appalachian oak-hickory forest
Appalachian oak-pine forest
Aquatic cave community
Artificial beach
Artificial pool
Backwater slough
Balsam flats
Basement/building foundation
Beech-maple mesic forest
Black spruce-tamarack bog
Bog lake/pond
Boreal heath barrens
Brackish interdunal swales
Brackish intertidal mudflats
Brackish intertidal shore
Brackish meadow
Brackish subtidal aquatic bed
Brackish tidal marsh
Brushy cleared land
Calcareous cliff community
Calcareous pavement woodland
Calcareous red cedar barrens
Calcareous shoreline outcrop
Calcareous talus slope woodland
Canal
Chestnut oak forest
Cliff community
Coastal oak-beech forest
Coastal oak-heath forest
Coastal oak-hickory forest
Coastal oak-holly forest
Coastal oak-laurel forest
Coastal plain Atlantic white cedar swamp
Coastal plain pond
Coastal plain pond shore
Coastal plain poor fen
Coastal plain stream
Coastal salt pond
Cobble shore
Cobble shore wet meadow
Common reed marsh
Confined river
Conifer plantation
Construction/road maintenance spoils
Cropland/field crops
Cropland/row crops
Cultural eutrophic lake
Deep emergent marsh
Deepwater river
Ditch/artificial intermittent stream
Dredge spoil lake shore
Dredge spoils
Dredge spoil wetland
Dry alvar grassland
Dwarf pine plains
Dwarf pine ridges
Dwarf shrub bog
Estuarine channel/artificial impoundment
Estuarine common reed marsh
Estuarine ditch
Estuarine dredge excavation pit/channel
Estuarine dredge spoil shore
Estuarine impoundment marsh
Estuarine riprap/artificial shore
Estuarine submerged structure
Estuarine water-chestnut bed
Eutrophic dimictic lake
Eutrophic pond
Farm pond/artificial pond
Floodplain forest
Floodplain grassland
Flower/herb garden
Freshwater intertidal mudflats
Freshwater intertidal shore
Freshwater subtidal aquatic bed
Freshwater tidal creek
Freshwater tidal marsh
Freshwater tidal swamp
Gravel mine
Great Lakes aquatic bed
Great Lakes bluff
Great Lakes deepwater community
Great Lakes dunes
Great Lakes exposed shoal
Hardwood plantation
Hemlock-hardwood swamp
Hemlock-northern hardwood forest
Hempstead Plains grassland
Herbicide-sprayed roadside/pathway
Highbush blueberry bog thicket
High salt marsh
Ice cave talus community
Impounded marsh
Impounded swamp
Industrial cooling pond
Industrial effluent stream
Inland Atlantic white cedar swamp
Inland calcareous lake shore
Inland non-calcareous lake shore
Inland poor fen
Inland salt marsh
Inland salt pond
Interior of barn/agricultural building
Interior of non-agricultural building
Intermittent stream
Junkyard
Lacustrine submerged structure
Lacustrine water chestnut bed
Landfill/dump
Limestone woodland
Low salt marsh
Maple-basswood rich mesic forest
Marine aquaculture areas
Marine back-barrier lagoon
Marine deepwater community
Marine dredge excavation pit/channel
Marine dredge spoil dump site
Marine dredge spoil shore
Marine eelgrass meadow
Marine intertidal gravel/sand beach
Marine intertidal mudflats
Marine riprap/artificial shore
Marine rocky intertidal
Marine submerged artificial structure/reef
Maritime beach
Maritime beech forest
Maritime bluff
Maritime dunes
Maritime freshwater interdunal swales
Maritime grassland
Maritime heathland
Maritime holly forest
Maritime pitch pine dune woodland
Maritime post oak forest
Maritime red cedar forest
Maritime shrubland
Marl fen
Marl pond
Marl pond shore
Marsh headwater stream
Medium fen
Meromictic lake
Mesotrophic dimictic lake
Mine/artificial cave community
Mine spoils
Mine spoil wetland
Mountain fir forest
Mountain spruce-fir forest
Mowed lawn
Mowed lawn with trees
Mowed roadside/pathway
Northern white cedar rocky summit
Northern white cedar swamp
Oak openings
Oak-tulip tree forest
Oligotrophic dimictic lake
Oligotrophic pond
Open alpine community
Orchard
Oxbow lake/pond
Pastureland
Patterned peatland
Paved road/path
Perched bog
Perched swamp white oak swamp
Pine barrens shrub swamp
Pine barrens vernal pond
Pine-northern hardwood forest
Pine plantation
Pitch pine-blueberry peat swamp
Pitch pine-heath barrens
Pitch pine-oak forest
Pitch pine-oak-heath rocky summit
Pitch pine-oak-heath woodland
Pitch pine-scrub oak barrens
Post oak-blackjack oak barrens
Purple loosestrife marsh
Quarry pond
Railroad
Red cedar rocky summit
Red maple-blackgum swamp
Red maple-hardwood swamp
Red maple-swamp white oak swamp
Red maple-sweetgum swamp
Red maple-tamarack peat swamp
Red pine rocky summit
Reservoir/artificial impoundment
Reverted drained muckland
Rich graminoid fen
Rich hemlock-hardwood peat swamp
Rich mesophytic forest
Rich shrub fen
Rich sloping fen
Riprap/artificial lake shore
Riprap/erosion control roadside
Riverine submerged structure
Riverine water chestnut bed
Riverside ice meadow
Riverside/lakeside bluff
Riverside sand/gravel bar
Roadcut cliff/slope
Rock quarry
Rocky headwater stream
Rocky summit grassland
Rural structure exterior
Salt panne
Salt shrub
Saltwater tidal creek
Sand beach
Sand mine
Sandstone pavement barrens
Sea level fen
Sedge meadow
Serpentine barrens
Sewage treatment pond
Sewer
Shale cliff and talus community
Shale talus slope woodland
Shallow emergent marsh
Shoreline outcrop
Shrub swamp
Silver maple-ash swamp
Sinkhole wetland
Spring
Spruce/fir plantation
Spruce-fir rocky summit
Spruce-fir swamp
Spruce flats
Spruce-northern hardwood forest
Successional blueberry heath
Successional fern meadow
Successional maritime forest
Successional northern hardwoods
Successional northern sandplain grassland
Successional old field
Successional red cedar woodland
Successional shrubland
Successional southern hardwoods
Summer-stratified monomictic lake
Talus cave community
Terrestrial cave community
Tidal river
Tunnel
Unconfined river
Unpaved road/path
Urban structure exterior
Urban vacant lot
Vernal pool
Vineyard
Water recharge basin
Wet alvar grassland
Winter-stratified monomictic lake
Ecological Community Systems
For more information, see
Ecological Community System Descriptions
and
Key to Ecological Community Systems and Subsystems
.
ESTUARINE
LACUSTRINE
MARINE
PALUSTRINE
RIVERINE
SUBTERRANEAN
TERRESTRIAL
Ecological Community Subsystems
For more information, see
Ecological Community System Descriptions
and
Key to Ecological Community Systems and Subsystems
.
BARRENS AND WOODLANDS
ESTUARINE CULTURAL
ESTUARINE INTERTIDAL
ESTUARINE SUBTIDAL
FORESTED MINERAL SOIL WETLANDS
FORESTED PEATLANDS
FORESTED UPLANDS
LACUSTRINE CULTURAL
MARINE CULTURAL
MARINE INTERTIDAL
MARINE SUBTIDAL
NATURAL CAVES
NATURAL LAKES AND PONDS
NATURAL STREAMS
OPEN MINERAL SOIL WETLANDS
OPEN PEATLANDS
OPEN UPLANDS
PALUSTRINE CULTURAL
RIVERINE CULTURAL
SUBTERRANEAN CULTURAL
TERRESTRIAL CULTURAL
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