Title: MassGIS 2003 Massachusetts Priority Natural Vegetation Communities : Acidic Peatland Community Systems (April 2003)
- Polygon data
- 2003
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Harvard)
Dates
- Issued: May 19, 2003
- Coverage: 2003
Publishers
- Office of Geographic and Environmental Information (MassGIS)
Summary
This datalayer contains polygons representing Massachusetts Priority Natural Vegetation Communities : Acidic Peatland Community Systems. The data covers only a portion of eastern Massachusetts. Acidic Peatland Systems include evergreen forest and shrub bogs, Atlantic White Cedar (AWC) swamps and bogs, and shrub and graminoid fens. This layer is part of the MassGIS Priority Natural Vegetation Communities dataset, which depicts the distribution of the eight natural community systems identified by the Massachusetts Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program (NHESP) as most critical to the conservation of the Commonwealth's biological diversity (Barbour et al., 1998).
Subjects
- Environment
- Massachusetts
- Peatlands
- Plant communities
- Atlantic White Cedar
- Fens
- Wetlands
- Biodiversity conservation
- biota
- inlandWaters
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-71.364161, -70.51623, 42.859412, 41.535629)
- Geometry: BBOX (-71.364161, -70.51623, 42.859412, 41.535629)
Provider
Harvard
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
MassGIS (Office : Mass.), Massachusetts. Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program. MassGIS 2003 Massachusetts Priority Natural Vegetation Communities : Acidic Peatland Community Systems (April 2003). Office of Geographic and Environmental Information (MassGIS). Polygon data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-mgisvcpeatp
Format
Shapefile