Description: Mangrove communities in Florida and Texas
Copyright Text: National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; Office for Coastal Management, NOS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Description: Florida mangrove community includes 3 true species - Red Mangrove (Rhizophora mangle), Black Mangrove (Avicennia germinarus), and White Mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa) with 1 associated species - Buttonwood (Conocarpus erectus). Mangroves cover an area of 450,000 to 550,000 acres in Florida.
Description: These mangrove data were extracted from a larger dataset that maps benthic habitat in the Texas Bend Coastal Bays. The mangrove classes were exported from the benthic habitat GIS files for each bay and combined into one Esri shapefile (TXCB2004_Mangroves_merge.shp). In 2006 and 2007 the NOAA Coastal Services Center purchased services to process existing digital multi-spectral imagery (ADS-40) and create digital benthic habitat data from this imagery for selected Texas coastal bend bays. The Center worked cooperatively with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and the Texas A&M University Center for Coastal Studies to develop benthic habitat data, primarily Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) for several coastal bays.
Copyright Text: National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; Office for Coastal Management, NOS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Description: Mexican mangrove community includes 4 species - Red Mangrove (Rhizophora mangle), Black Mangrove (Avicennia germinarus), White Mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa), and Buttonwood (Conocarpus erectus). Identification based on 2005 SPOT 5 satellite imagery. Estimated coverage in Mexico is 774,090 hectares.
Copyright Text: National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO)