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CONTENTS
APPENDIX: PLANT COMMUNITY (ASSOCIATION) DESCRIPTIONS
OVERVIEW .....................................................................................................................................................................1
ASSOCIATION NOMENCLATURE......................................................................................................................................6
INDEX TO ASSOCIATIONS BY ECOLOGICAL GROUP.........................................................................................................7
PLANT COMMUNITY (ASSOCIATION) DESCRIPTIONS
1.1. ACID PEATLANDS.........................................................................................................................................19
1.2. RICH PEAT FENS ..........................................................................................................................................39
1.3. SEEPS ...........................................................................................................................................................65
1.4. OPEN AND EMERGENT MARSHES .................................................................................................................73
1.5. WET PRAIRIES AND WET MEADOWS..........................................................................................................111
1.6. WOODED SWAMPS AND FLOODPLAINS.......................................................................................................157
2.1. SHORELINE SAND/MUD STRANDS, BEACHES AND DUNES .........................................................................241
2.2. ROCKY SHORES..........................................................................................................................................259
2.3. ROCKY UPLANDS (GLADES, ROCK BARRENS, OUTCROPS AND ALVARS) ..................................................277
2.4. CLIFFS, TALUS, BUTTES AND BADLANDS ..................................................................................................317
2.5. FORESTS AND WOODLANDS .......................................................................................................................363
2.6. SHRUBLANDS/DWARF-SHRUBLANDS ........................................................................................................N/A
2.7. SHRUB GRASSLANDS.................................................................................................................................N/A
2.8. SAVANNAS AND NON-ROCK BARRENS ......................................................................................................551
2.9. PRAIRIES/GRASSLANDS..............................................................................................................................573
ADDENDUM I: ADDITIONAL TYPES OF UNCERTAIN STATUS IN THE MIDWEST ..........................................................N/A
ADDENDUM II: A LIST OF ASSOCIATIONS FOR THE MIDWEST IN ORDER OF GLOBAL ELCODE..................................N/A
BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR DESCRIPTIONS ...........................................................................................................................N/A
PLANT COMMUNITIES OF THE MIDWEST – 2001. APPENDIX: ASSOCIATION DESCRIPTIONS
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