USGS Scientific Investigations Map 3290: Vegetation Types in Coastal Louisiana in 2013

Vegetation Types in Coastal Louisiana in 2013

By Charles E. Sasser, Jenneke M. Visser, Edmond Mouton, Jeb Linscombe, and Steve B. Hartley

Abstract

During the summer of 2013, the U.S. Geological Survey, Louisiana State University, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Coastal and Nongame Resources Division jointly completed an aerial survey to collect data on 2013 vegetation types in coastal Louisiana. Plant species were listed and their abundance classified. On the basis of species composition and abundance, each marsh sampling station was assigned a marsh type: fresh, intermediate, brackish, or saline (saltwater) marsh. The current map presents the data collected in this effort.

First posted March 17, 2014

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Suggested citation:

Sasser, C.E., Visser, J.M., Mouton, Edmond, Linscombe, Jeb, and Hartley, S.B., 2014, Vegetation types in coastal Louisiana in 2013: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3290, 1 sheet, scale 1:550,000, https://dx.doi.org/10.3133/sim3290.

ISSN 2329-132X (online)

Contents

Abstract

Methodology

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