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SURINAME<br />
area. Paramaribo, United Nations Food and Agriculture Project.<br />
(Working Document No. 9.) In pocket.<br />
1974-1977 "SURINAME LOWLAND ECOSYSTEMS (COASTAL PLAIN AND SAVANNA<br />
BELT)<br />
in color 1:200,000<br />
LEGEND<br />
A. Ecosystems <strong>of</strong> the coastal plain<br />
I. Ecosystems <strong>of</strong> salt to brackish water areas<br />
a. Ecosystems <strong>of</strong> beaches and young ridges<br />
1. Beach <strong>vegetation</strong>: herb <strong>vegetation</strong>s with Ipomoea pes-caprae and<br />
Canavalia marítima, scattered Hibiscus tiliaceus scrub and Avicennia<br />
germinans forest fragments<br />
2. Savannas <strong>of</strong> galibi type (dry and marshy beach savannas): short<br />
grass savannas with scattered scrub and gnarled treelets<br />
3. Mixed xerophytic coastal wood and forest, in E. Suriname rich in<br />
cactuses (Cereus hexagonus)<br />
b. Ecosystems <strong>of</strong> mudflats and young swamps<br />
4. Coastal mudflats<br />
5. Coastal mudgrass <strong>vegetation</strong> (Spartina brasiliensis) and mangrove<br />
(A vicennia germinans) wood<br />
6. Mature mangrove forest, dominated by Avicennia germinans<br />
7. Dying mangrove forest (Avicennia germinans)<br />
8. Salt water ponds with Ruppia marítima and brackish ponds and<br />
lakes with Ruppia marítima and Nymphaea ampla<br />
9. Shallow salt water swamps with halophytic herb <strong>vegetation</strong>, dominated<br />
by Sesuvium portulacastrum, Batís marítima or Sporobolus<br />
virginicus<br />
10. Brackish short grass swamps, dominated by Eleocharis mutata,<br />
Cyperus articúlalas or Paspalum vaginalum, fern swamps dominated<br />
by Acrosticum aureum<br />
11. Scattered mangrove in brackish to fresh water grass swamps<br />
II. Ecosystems <strong>of</strong> brackish to fresh water areas<br />
a. Ecosystems <strong>of</strong> young ridges<br />
12. Mixed xero-mesophytic dryland- and marsh forest<br />
b. Ecosystems <strong>of</strong> young swamps<br />
13. Brackish to freshwater short grass swamps dominated by Cyperus<br />
articulatus or Leersia hexandra and tall grass swamps dominated<br />
by Typha angustijolia<br />
14. Brackish to fresh water swamp scrub dominated by Machaerium<br />
lunatum<br />
15. Brackish to fresh water swamp wood dominated by Erythrina<br />
glauca<br />
16. Brackish to fresh water mangrove forest with Euterpe olerácea<br />
palms<br />
c. Ecosystems <strong>of</strong> estuary floodplains<br />
17. Brackish to fresh water mangrove forest dominated by Rhizophora<br />
mangle<br />
III. Ecosystems <strong>of</strong> fresh water areas<br />
a. Ecosystems <strong>of</strong> young ridges<br />
18. Predominantly mixed mesophytic dryland- and marsh forest;<br />
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