Conservation planners associated with the Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks (GCPO) and Gulf Coast Prairie (GCP) Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCCs) require contemporary data on distribution and extent of coastal vegetation classes (i.e., fresh, intermediate, brackish and saline marsh types) to model habitat availability for priority taxa. To help meet these data needs, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation and collaboration with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via the Gulf Coast Joint Venture, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, the University of Louisiana- Lafayette, and Ducks Unlimited, Inc., has produced a seamless and standardized classification of marsh vegetation types indicative of salinity zones (fresh, intermediate, brackish, and saline).
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patial data depicting marsh types (e.g. fresh, intermediate, brackish and saline) for the north-central Gulf of Mexico coast from a project funded by the U.S. Geological Survey South Central Climate Science Center.