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Field checking the National Wetlands Inventory at South Slough, Oregon

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Graves, Jonathan K.

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) was developed to map U.S. wetlands comprehensively, following the Cowardin classification system. Wetlands are mapped by the NWI using small scale aerial photographs, but the inventory is not field checked in detail. The accuracy of this inventory has been questioned....

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Figure 3. South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve in Charleston, OR ( 43° 19'N, 125° 19'W); the
Testing the correlation between inundation period and coastal wetland productivity in Carex lyngbyei and Distichlis spicata communities, South Slough National Estuarine Reserve, Oregon

Creator:

Gilman, Eric

Abstract:

I tested the hypothesis that there is a correlation between inundation period and net primary production (NPP) in estuarine salt marshes through an observational experiment at South Slough National Estuarine Reserve, Oregon. I estimated primary production and inundation period for selected monotypic plant communities in (1) a naturally restored wetland...

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Distichlis spicata communities South Slough National Estuarine Reserve, Oregon Monday June 7, 1993 1:00 pm