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This dataset provides location information and some limited attributes of known and potential ciénegas in the Madrean Archipelago ecoregion and closely surrounding area. This was created using point data and information provided by Dean Hendrickson and Thomas Minckley, combined with potential locations derived from analysis of classified raster land cover images and other specialized datasets. Ciénegas, as defined here, are wetlands in arid and semi-arid regions associated with groundwater or lotic components that ideally result in perennial waters on temporal scales of decades to centuries. Ciénegas are typically located at elevations ranging from 0 to 2000m. Ciénegas are typified by significant differences in...
Tags: Arizona,
Ecology,
Geography,
Hydrology,
Land Use Change, All tags...
Madrean Archipelago ecoregion,
New Mexico,
Sonora,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
arid lands,
ciénaga,
ciénega,
freshwater marsh,
inlandWaters,
springs,
wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags
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Ciénegas, as defined here, are wetlands in arid and semi-arid regions associated with groundwater or lotic components that ideally result in perennial waters on temporal scales of decades to centuries. Ciénegas are typically no lower than 0 m, and higher than 2000 m, rarely lower but sometimes higher elevation localities occur. Ciénegas are typified by significant differences in flora and fauna relative to the greater terrestrial conditions in the region in which it is located. Ciénegas are freshwater to brackish North American wetlands associated with fluvial systems of arid/semi-arid areas of the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico. Once extensively utilized by the region's indigenous human cultures, early...
Tags: Ecology,
Geography,
Hydrology,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Water Resources, All tags...
arid lands,
ciénaga,
ciénega,
freshwater marsh,
inlandWaters,
northern Mexico,
southwestern U.S.,
springs,
wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags
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