Fable 15-9. (Concluded) 



Circular 39 types 



NWI wetland and deepwater habitats 



Classes 



Water regimes 



Water 

 chemistry 



Type 13— Coastal deep fresh marshes 

 Marsh (Anderson et al. 1968) 

 Estuarine bay marshes, estuarine river marshes 



(Stewart 1962) 

 Fresh and intermediate marshes (Chabreck 1972) 



Type 14— Coastal open fresh water 

 Estuarine bavs (Stewart 1962) 



Type 15— Coastal salt flats 

 Panne, slough marsh (Redfield 1972) 

 Marsh pans (Pestrong 1965) 



Type 16— Coastal salt meadows 

 Salt marsh (Redfield 1972; Chapman 1974) 



Type 17 — Irregularly flooded salt marshes 

 Salt marsh (Chapman 1974) 

 Saline, brackish, and intermediate marsh (Eleuterius 1972) 



Type 18— Regularly flooded salt marshes 

 Salt marsh (Chapman 1974) 



Type 19— Sounds and bays 



Kelp beds, temperate grass flats (Phillips 1974) 



Tropical marine meadows (Odum 1974) 



Eelgrass beds (Akins and Jefferson 1973; Eleuterius 1973) 



Type 20— Mangrove swamps 

 Mangrove swamps (Walsh 1 974) 

 Mangrove swamp systems (Kuenzler 1974) 

 Mangrove (Chapman 1976) 



Emergent Wetland Regularly Flooded Mixohaline 



Semipermanently Fresh 



Flooded-Tidal 



15-30 



