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Title: MassGIS 2003 Massachusetts Priority Natural Vegetation Communities : Coastal Plain Pond Systems (April 2003)

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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 : Coastal Plain Pond Systems. The data covers only a portion of southeastern Massachusetts. Coastal Plain Pond Systems consist of certain kettlehole ponds and the pondshores developed around their fluctuating water levels. 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
  • Ponds
  • Plant communities
  • Bodies of water
  • Biodiversity conservation
  • inlandWaters
  • biota
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-71.141728, -70.535382, 42.010029, 41.619955)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-71.141728, -70.535382, 42.010029, 41.619955)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

MassGIS (Office : Mass.), Manomet Center for Conservation Science., Massachusetts. Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program. MassGIS 2003 Massachusetts Priority Natural Vegetation Communities : Coastal Plain Pond Systems (April 2003). Office of Geographic and Environmental Information (MassGIS). Polygon data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-mgisvccstpp

Format

Shapefile