Ecology of Red Maple Swamps in the Glaciated Northeast: A ...

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Fig . 7.6. Wad duck 103
Fig . 7.7. Southern red-backed vole 1%
Fig . 7.8. Mite-tailed deer 107
Fig . 8.1. Sweet pepperbush 113
Fig . 8.2. Red maple swamp providing open space arnidst residential and industrial
development ......................................... 114
Fig .,. 8.3. Southern New England red maple swamp cleared for cranberry bog
expansion ........................................... 117
Fig . 8.4. Electric utility lines passing through a former red maple swamp .......... 119
Fig . 8.5. Stormwater discharge in a red maple swamp ..................... 120
Fig . 8.6. Wetland buffer width model developed for wildlife habitat functions in
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Rhode Island red maple swamps 126
Table 1.1. Synaptic outline of the physiographic regions of the glaciated Northeast .....
Table 1.2. Climatic data for the northeastern United States. by physiographic region ....
Table 1.3. Principal tree species in upland md wetland forests of the glaciated
Northeast, by forest region ..................................
Table 1.4. Relative abundance of forested wetland and broad-leaved deciduous
forested wetland in the glaciated northeastern United States ...............
Table 1.5. I'erccrltiige of total land arca in each glaciated northeastern state covered
by pnlustri~~r wet. land and by forested wetland .......................
Table 2.1. ICydrogeologic classificatior~ of x~ortheastern inland wetlands ...........
Table 2.2. Gentam1 characteristics of red maple forested wetlands studied by O'Brien ....
Tablo 2.3. Water regimes of northeastrn red maple swamps .................
Table 2.4. Soil drninage classes .................................
'ikble 2.5. IIydrc~logic d~aracteristics of seasonally saturated soils from Rhode Island
red maple Hwanlps during the growing season .......................
Table 2.6. Percentage of the growing season during which air-filled porosity at a
30-cxn depth was 15% or less in soils from EUlode Island red maple swamps and
adjacent upland forests ...................................
Table 3.1, Stmttural characteristics of the tree layer in northeastern red rnaple
swamps ............................................
Table 3.2. Structural charactfiristics of the shrub and herb layers in nortl~eastern red
maple swamps . ........................................
Table 3.3. Flora of red maple swamps in the glaciated Northeast ...............
Table 4.1. Soil and water table characteristics of three forested wetland communities
at Labrador kIollow S wap in central New York ......................
Table 4.2. Relative abundance of plant species in wetland, transition, and uplarld
zones associated with eight red maple swamps in northeastern Connecticut .......
Table 4.3. Wetland indicator categories for plant species that occur in wetlands .......
Tmble 4.4 Frequency of occurrence of major tree, shrub, and herb layer species by
soil &&age class in the wetland-upland transition zone of three Rhode Island
red mtrple swrunps . ......................................