2015 Wildlife Action Plan Habitats Crosswalk

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1 2015 Wildlife Action Plan Habitats Crosswalk A crosswalk guide between Wildlife Action Plan Habitats and other habitat classification schemes. Ecosystem Comments NH WAP 2015 NHNHB System Open Water (NLCD-NHD open water) Developed (NLCD & 31) Agriculture (NLCD 81-82) Atlantic Coastal Plain Beach and Dune Combined systems & N. Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale & NACP Sandy Beach Open Water NLCD Developed Classes Dune Coastal sand dune North Atlantic Coastal Plain Maritime North Atlantic Coastal Plain Hardwood North Atlantic Coastal Plain Tidal Salt Marsh From Chesapeake Bay Ecoregion north-- undifferentiated salt/brackish/oligohalin e tidal marsh Appalachian oak-pine Appalachian oak-pine Salt marsh Coastal sand dune Appalachian oak - pine Salt marsh Acadian Sub-boreal Spruce Flat Lowland sprucefir / Acadian-Appalachian Montane Spruce- Fir-Hardwood High-elevation spruce-fir High-elevation spruce - fir Acadian-Appalachian Alpine Tundra Alpine Alpine tundra Laurentian-Acadian Calcareous Cliff and Laurentian-Acadian Calcareous Cliff and Northern Appalachian-Acadian Rocky Heath Outcrop Northern Appalachian-Acadian Rocky Heath Outcrop Laurentian-Acadian Calcareous Rocky Outcrop Cliff, and Cliff, and Cliff, and Cliff, and Cliff, and Cliff, and Cliff, and Cliff, and Montane cliff Montane slope Montane cliff Montane rocky ridge New Hampshire Wildlife Action Plan Appendix C-1

2 Laurentian-Acadian Calcareous Rocky Montane rocky ridge Outcrop Cliff, and Acadian-North Atlantic Rocky Coast Coastal island Maritime rocky shore Laurentian-Acadian Alkaline Fen Incomplete-- represents only a few occurrences in the northern part of the Lower New England ecoregion Medium level fen Patterned fen Poor level fen/bog Calcareous sloping fen Primarily deciduous ed occurrences along larger rivers, Northern Appal & St. Lawrence-Champlain Valley Ecoregions only Major river silver maple Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Pine barren Pitch pine sand plain Central Appalachian Dry Oak-Pine Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland North-Central Appalachian Acidic Cliff and Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland North-Central Appalachian Circumneutral Cliff and North-Central Interior Flatwoods North Atlantic Coastal Plain Heathland and Northeastern Coastal and Interior Pine- Oak Appalachian Appalachian oak - pine oak-pine Rocky ridge Appalachian oak - pine Rocky ridge Cliff and Rocky ridge Rocky ridge minerotrophic system Appalachian oak - pine New Hampshire Wildlife Action Plan Appendix C-2

3 North Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Peat Lower New England/Northern Piedmont & coastal ecoregions only-- not split out by hydrology in LNE/NP (mostly in isolated & headwater ) Coastal conifer peat Shrubland & grassland (NLCD 52/71) Not always ruderal or successional-- some natural shrublands Laurentian-Acadian Red Oak-Northern Hardwood This system was split out and mapped only in the Northern Appalachian & St. Lawrence-Champlain Valley Ecoregions Laurentian-Acadian Pine-Hemlock- Hardwood Laurentian-Acadian Northern Hardwood Northern hardwoodconifer Northern hardwoodconifer Hemlock - hardwood - pine Northern hardwood - conifer Northern hardwood - conifer Acadian Low Elevation Spruce-Fir- Hardwood Northern Appalachian-Acadian Conifer-Hardwood Acidic Northern Appalachian-Acadian Conifer-Hardwood Acidic Laurentian-Acadian Alkaline Conifer- Hardwood Laurentian-Acadian Meadow- Shrub Laurentian-Acadian Meadow- Shrub Appalachian (Hemlock)-Northern Hardwood Appalachian (Hemlock)-Northern Hardwood Laurentian-Acadian Freshwater Marsh Laurentian-Acadian Freshwater Marsh Lowland sprucefir Northern / Black spruce / Montane/near-boreal minerotrophic peat Drainage marsh - shrub Sand plain basin marsh Hemlock - hardwood - pine Rich mesic Drainage marsh - shrub Sandy pond shore New Hampshire Wildlife Action Plan Appendix C-3

4 North-Central Appalachian Acidic North-Central Appalachian Acidic Rich Rich s, marshes, peatlands in and riparian peat minor river minerotrophic system minor river Major river silver maple Acidic Kettle hole bog Acidic Medium level fen Acidic Poor level fen/bog s, marshes, peatlands in Northern Montane/near-boreal s, marshes, peatlands in Moderate-gradient sandycobbly New Hampshire Wildlife Action Plan Appendix C-4

5 s, marshes, peatlands in High-gradient rocky s, marshes, peatlands in Low-gradient silty-sandy s, marshes, peatlands in Moderate-gradient sandycobbly s, marshes, peatlands in Low-gradient silty-sandy New Hampshire Wildlife Action Plan Appendix C-5