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Communities
Acidic talus slope woodland
Allegheny oak forest
Alpine krummholz
Alpine meadow
Alpine sliding fen
Alvar grassland
Alvar pavement-grassland
Alvar shrubland
Alvar woodland
Appalachian oak-hickory forest
Appalachian oak-pine forest
Backwater slough
Balsam flats
Beech-maple mesic forest
Black spruce-tamarack bog
Bog lake
Boreal heath barrens
Brackish interdunal swales
Brackish intertidal mudflats
Brackish intertidal shore
Brackish meadow
Brackish subtidal aquatic bed
Brackish tidal marsh
Brushy cleared land
Calcareous cliff community
Calcareous pavement barrens
Calcareous red cedar barrens
Calcareous shoreline outcrop
Calcareous talus slope woodland
Chestnut oak forest
Cliff community
Coastal oak-beech forest
Coastal oak-heath forest
Coastal oak-hickory forest
Coastal oak-holly forest
Coastal plain Atlantic white cedar swamp
Coastal plain pond
Coastal plain pond shore
Coastal plain poor fen
Coastal salt pond
Cobble shore
Cobble shore wet meadow
Confined river
Cropland/field crops
Cultural eutrophic lake
Deep emergent marsh
Deepwater river
Ditch/artificial intermittent stream
Dredge spoil lake shore
Dwarf pine plains
Dwarf pine ridges
Dwarf shrub bog
Eroding slope
Estuarine riprap/artificial shore
Eutrophic dimictic lake
Eutrophic pond
Farm pond/artificial pond
Floodplain forest
Freshwater intertidal mudflats
Freshwater intertidal shore
Freshwater subtidal aquatic bed
Freshwater tidal creek
Freshwater tidal marsh
Freshwater tidal swamp
Gravel mine
Great Lakes dunes
Hemlock-hardwood swamp
Hemlock-northern hardwood forest
Hempstead Plains grassland
High salt marsh
Highbush blueberry bog thicket
Ice cave talus community
Impounded marsh
Inland Atlantic white cedar swamp
Inland calcareous lake shore
Inland non-calcareous lake shore
Inland poor fen
Inland salt marsh
Intermittent stream
Limestone woodland
Low salt marsh
Main channel stream
Maple-basswood rich mesic forest
Marine intertidal mudflats
Marine riprap/artificial shore
Marine rocky intertidal
Maritime beach
Maritime dunes
Maritime freshwater interdunal swales
Maritime grassland
Maritime heathland
Maritime pitch pine dune woodland
Maritime shrubland
Marl fen
Marl pond
Marl pond shore
Marsh headwater stream
Medium fen
Meromictic lake
Mesotrophic dimictic lake
Midreach stream
Mine spoil wetland
Mountain fir forest
Mountain spruce-fir forest
Mowed lawn
Mowed roadside/pathway
Northern white cedar rocky summit
Northern white cedar swamp
Oak openings
Oak-tulip tree forest
Oligotrophic dimictic lake
Oligotrophic pond
Oxbow lake
Pastureland
Patterned peatland
Perched bog
Perched swamp white oak swamp
Pine barrens shrub swamp
Pine barrens vernal pond
Pine-northern hardwood forest
Pitch pine-blueberry peat swamp
Pitch pine-heath barrens
Pitch pine-oak forest
Pitch pine-oak-heath rocky summit
Pitch pine-oak-heath woodland
Pitch pine-scrub oak barrens
Post oak-blackjack oak barrens
Red cedar rocky summit
Red maple-black gum swamp
Red maple-blackgum swamp
Red maple-hardwood swamp
Red maple-sweetgum swamp
Red maple-tamarack peat swamp
Red pine rocky summit
Reedgrass/purple loosestrife marsh
Reservoir/artificial impoundment
Rich graminoid fen
Rich hemlock-hardwood peat swamp
Rich mesophytic forest
Rich shrub fen
Rich sloping fen
Riverine submerged structure
Riverside ice meadow
Riverside sand/gravel bar
Roadcut cliff/slope
Rock quarry
Rocky headwater stream
Rocky summit grassland
Salt panne
Salt shrub
Saltwater tidal creek
Sand beach
Sand mine
Sandstone pavement barrens
Sea level fen
Sedge meadow
Serpentine barrens
Shale cliff and talus community
Shale talus slope woodland
Shallow emergent marsh
Shoreline outcrop
Shrub swamp
Silver maple-ash swamp
Sinkhole wetland
Spring
Spruce flats
Spruce-fir rocky summit
Spruce-fir swamp
Spruce-northern hardwood forest
Successional blueberry heath
Successional fern meadow
Successional maritime forest
Successional northern hardwoods
Successional northern sandplain grassland
Successional old field
Successional red cedar woodland
Successional shrubland
Successional southern hardwoods
Summer-stratified monomictic lake
Tidal creek
Tidal river
Undetermined forested uplands
Unpaved road/path
Urban structure exterior
Vernal pool
Winter-stratified monomictic lake
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