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NATURAL HERITAGE

The Natural Communities of Virginia
Classification of Ecological Community Groups
SECOND APPROXIMATION (Version 2.2)


 

TIDAL WETLANDS

Ecological community groups of regularly or irregularly flooded, lunar tidal wetlands and irregularly flooded, wind-tidal wetlands. Structurally and compositionally diverse vegetation is represented. In the descriptions that follow, the terms “high” and “low” marsh refer to the relative elevation of stands within the intertidal zone.


Tidal Freshwater Marshes

Tidal Oligohaline Marshes

Wind-Tidal Oligohaline Marshes

Tidal Mesohaline and Polyhaline Marshes

Tidal Shrub Swamps

Tidal Bald Cypress Forests and Woodlands

Tidal Hardwood Swamps

Tidal Freshwater and Oligohaline Aquatic Beds

Tidal Mesohaline and Polyhaline Aquatic Beds

Salt Flats

Salt Scrub

photo of James River tidal woodland
Gary P. Fleming
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Table of Contents

Introduction

Overview of VA Physiography & Vegetation

Glossary

Literature

Format of Descriptions

Terrestrial System

Palustrine System
  

Riverine System

Estuarine System: TIDAL WETLANDS
   - Tidal Freshwater Marshes
   - Tidal Oligohaline Marshes
   - Wind-Tidal Oligohaline Marshes
   - Tidal Mesohaline and Polyhaline Marshes
   - Tidal Shrub Swamps
   - Tidal Bald Cypress Forests and Woodlands
   - Tidal Hardwood Swamps
   - Tidal Freshwater and Oligohaline Aquatic Beds
   - Tidal Mesohaline and Polyhaline Aquatic Beds
   - Salt Flats
   - Salt Scrub

Marine System