Table 4.6. Plant species present and their percent coverage in the salt marsh habitat in the Louisiana 

 portion of the Chenier Plain by basin (Chabreck 1972). 



No plants. 



Table 4.7 Estimated net primary production per 

 square meter for the salt marsh habitat. 

 Total net primary production is calculated 

 as 2, (percent coverage times net primary 

 primary production)for n species. 



"Chabreck 1972 



Gosselink ct al. 1977 



'^Boyd 1969 



Productivity assumed to be ecjual to the average for other 

 species in the habitat 



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