Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps

North America Landcover / JRC Ispra (Downloadable datasets in various formats -- in "Products" section)

Prevailing Vegetation (Inset on: North America -- Political. In: Times Survey Atlas of the World, 1922)

Land Use, Fisheries & Erosion (The Great Lakes Atlas)

Canada Temperate and Boreal Forest and Protected Areas (Map 5 UNEP-WCMC)

Canada Vegetation Map

Canada Vegetation Regions

[Map of the Prairie in the U.S. and Canada]

Mountains and Mountain Forests North America (Covers U.S. and Canada)

NatureServe Explorer: an Online Encyclopedia of Life (Includes state/provincial-level distribution maps)

Poison Ivy, Western Poison Oak, Poison Sumac (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - Publication No 1699 by Gerald A. Mulligan. Includes photos and distribution maps)

Alberta Vegetation Zones

Canada : Hood River Region

Greenland and Iceland Landcover / JRC Ispra (Downloadable datasets in various formats -- in "Products" section)

Carta agrícola : [México] / A. García Cubas (Shows forested areas. In: Atlas pintoresco e histórico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, 1885, pl. VIII)

Coryphantha Homepage Distribution Maps by Reto F. Dicht

Madro-Tertiary Geoflora Relict Tehuacán mexical (Mexican Chaparral) Distribution under Wet-summer Climates in Mexico

Mapa forestal de la República Mexicana

Mexico : vegetación natural predominante y áreas naturales protegidas

Mexico : vegetation (INEGI)

Mountains and Mountain Forests Central America (Covers also Mexico, UNEP-WCMC)

Tipos de vegetacion de Mexico Zonas Ecologicas

United States of America and Mexico Temperate Forest and Protected Areas (Map 6 UNEP-WCMC)

Baja Peninsula : Vegetation Regions

Alien Plant Invaders of Native Areas (Includes state-level distribution maps for some plants)

Ceanothus distribution map[s] for North America [i.e., United States]

Land Use History of North America (LUHNA) (USGS)

[Map of the Prairie in the U.S. and Canada]

Map Showing in Five Degrees of Density the Distribution of Woodland within the Territory of the United States, 1873 / compiled by Wm. H. Brewer. (Statistical Atlas of the United States Based on the Results of the Ninth Census 1870, pl. III-IV)

Mich GIS Prototype (Fungi distribution maps)

Midwestern Wetland Flora (Distribution maps covering the U.S.)

Mountains and Mountain Forests North America (Covers U.S. and Canada)

National Atlas of the United States of America, 1970 (p. 89, 90-92, 154-156, 157-160 - vegetation, forests, land use)

NatureServe Explorer: an Online Encyclopedia of Life (Includes state/provincial-level distribution maps)

Orchids of Wisconsin (Wisc. and U.S. distribution maps)

Poison Ivy, Western Poison Oak, Poison Sumac (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - Publication No 1699 by Gerald A. Mulligan. Includes photos and distribution maps)

A Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands

United States : Invasive Species

United States of America and Mexico Temperate Forest and Protected Areas (Map 6 UNEP-WCMC)

University of Michigan Herbarium Web Prototype. Interactive Distribution Maps of Fungi in the United States

USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program (Classifies, describes and maps vegetation in National Parks. Includes air photos for some parks)

Woodland : This Map Shows the Percentage of Land per County Recorded in the 1987 Census of Agriculture as Being Woodland

Circumpolar Arctic Geobotanical Atlas

Eastern Russia and Alaska Temperate and Boreal Forest and Protected Areas (Map 1 UNEP-WCMC)

Kotzebue Sound Subregion Vegetation

Vegetation Map of Tok, Alaska

Arizona GAP Products (FTP directory)

Tuzigoot National Monument (USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program)

Arkansas Biodiversity - Vascular Plants (Distribution maps for the Arkansas Flora)

Arkansas GAP Products (FTP directory)

National Gap Analysis Program (Biodiversity status of vegetation communities and vertebrates, land cover/land use)

Calflora (Includes county-level distribution maps)

CalFlora: Texas A&M Bioinformatics Working Group's full-text indexing of the CalFlora Database

California Digital Conservation Atlas (California Resources Agency; layers include Landcover bioregions, USDA ecoregions, Coarse landcover, Fine landcover, CNDDB species by quad)

California Gap Analysis Project

California GAP Products (FTP Directory)

California Hardwoods

California Hardwoods Rangeland Monitoring Project

California Vascular Plants: Checklist (with Distribution Maps) from the Jepson Manual

County-level Specimen-vouchered Distribution Maps

Distribution Maps and Species Lists of All Plants Covered by the Jepson Manual (Includes bioregion distribution maps)

Generalized Types and Age Classes of Timber Stands : Redwood--Douglas-fir Subregion, California

Identification of Vegetation State-and-transition Domains in California's Hardwood Rangelands

Keys to Juncus and Lazula of California by Barbara Ertter

Land Classification of Eastern California, 1877 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 65(D). Covers W 117°52’30”--W 116°30’/N 36°30’--N 35°40’)

Land Classification Map of Parts of Eastern Cal. and Western Nev., 1877 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheets 47(B) & 47(D). Covers W 120°37’30”--W 119°15’/N 40°40’--N 38°55’)

Monitoring Sudden Oak Death in California (Includes distribution and county SOD maps)

National Gap Analysis Program (Biodiversity status of vegetation communities and vertebrates, land cover/land use)

Point Distribution Mapping (Berkeley Natural History Museum) Datasets

Potential Riparian Plant Species Richness

Riparian Zone Hardwoods

Statewide & County Maps of Vegetation Change with Cause for the First Statewide Cycle (California Land Cover Mapping & Monitoring Program (LCMMP))

Statewide Map of 13 Land Cover Classes, Aggregated from CWHR classes (Derived from FRAP multi-source data, CDF)

Vegetation in the Northwest Ecoregion

The Wieslander Vegetation Type Map (VTM)

Map of Bolsa Chica Restoration Alternative

Forest Vegetation, Jackson Demonstration State Forest

Land Classification Map of Part of Southern California, 1879 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 73(A). Covers W 119°15’--W 117°52’30”/N 35°40’--N 34°50’)

UCD McLaughlin Reserve : Vegetation Map

Holland Natural Communities Map of the Mojave Desert, California

UCSC Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve : Vegetation Map

UCD McLaughlin Reserve : Vegetation Map

UCD Quail Ridge Reserve : Vegetation Map

Land Classification Map of Part of North Central California, 1881 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 47(A). Covers W 122°--W 120°37’30”/N 40°40’--N 39°50’)

Land Classification Map of Parts of N.E. California & N.W. Nevada, 1880 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 38(D). Covers W 120°37’30”--W 119°15’/N 41°30’--N 40°40’)

UCI San Joaquin Fresh Water Marsh Reserve : Habitat Map

Russian River Watershed GIS (NOAA Fisheries & Circuit Rider Productions, Inc. "Map gallery" includes: 1942 Middle Reach riparian habitat & landuse; Middle reach 1992 riparian habitat, succession status & land use; Middle Reach riparian habitat loss 1940-1992)

BADGER (Outlines vegetation areas)

San Francisco Estuary Invasive Spartina Project

The San Jacinto Mountains MACROSCOPE Online GIS application can create zoomable vegetation and other maps

Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve Online GIS System

Land Classification Map of Part of S.W. California, 1881 (Shows timber areas, Los Angeles, Kern and Ventura counties; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 73(C))

UCD McLaughlin Reserve : Vegetation Map

Yosemite National Park (USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program) (Classifies, describes and maps vegetation in National Parks. Includes air photos for some parks)

Changes in Forest Cover : [Colorado]

Economical Features of Central Colorado, 1876 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 61(B). Covers W 106°52'30"--W 105°30'/N 39°--N 38°10’)

Economic Features of Parts of Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico, 1877 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 70(A). Covers W 105°30'--W 104°07'30"/N 37°20'--N 36°30’)

Economic Features of Parts of South'n. Colorado and North'n. New Mexico, 1878 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 69(B). Covers W 106°52'30"--W 105°30'/N 37°20'--N 36°30’)

Economic Features of S.W. Colorado, San Juan Mining Region, 1877 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 61(C). Covers W 107°57'--W 107°15'/N 38°07'--N 37°42’)

Economic map of Colorado / F.V. Hayden, 1881 (Geological and geographical atlas of Colorado and portions of adjacent territory, sheet III)

Land Classification Map of Part of Central Colorado, 1878 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 62(A). Covers W 105°30'--W 104°07'30"/N 39°--N 38°10’)

Land Classification Map of Part of Central Colorado, 1879 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 52(D). Covers W 106°52'30"--W 105°30'/N 39°50'--N 39°00’)

Land Classification Map of Part of South Western Colorado, 1878 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 61(C). Covers W 108°15'--W 105°52'30"/N 38°10'--N 37°20’)

Land Classification Map of Part of South Western Colorado, 1879 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 61(D). Covers W 106°52'30"--W 105°30'/N 38°10'--N 37°20’)

Land Classification Map of Part of Southern Colorado, 1878 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 62(C). Covers W 105°30'--W 104°07'30"/N 38°10'--N 37°20’)

Land Use and Land Cover in and around Rocky Mountain National Park

Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants

Florida : Everglades

Vegetation Map of Atlanta, Georgia

Alien Species in Hawaii Distribution Maps

Insular Scale Hydrologic Response: Kaho’olawe, Hawaii (Includes Map of landcover prepared from the NDVI processed Landsat scene of Kaho’olawe, Illustration of the effect of an introduction or removal of vegetation on eroded depth / Erik Wahlstrom and Keith Loague, Stanford University)

[Idaho Rare Species] (Includes maps for selected species)

INVADERS Database System (exotic plant data including county-level distribution maps)

Land Classification Map of North-eastern Utah & South-eastern Idaho, 1878 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 41(B). Covers W 112°22’30"--W 111°/N 42°20’--N 41°30’)

Land Classification Map of Part of South Eastern Idaho, 1881 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 32(C). Covers W 113°45’--W 112°22’30”/N 43°10’--N 42°20’)

Land Classification Map of Part of South-eastern Idaho, 1879 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 32(D). Covers W 111°22’30"--W 111°/N 43°10’--N 42°20’)

Parts of Southern Idaho & Northern Utah [Land Classification], 1880 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 41(A). Covers W 113°45’--W 112°22'30"/N 42°20’--N 41°30’)

Louisiana GAP Products (FTP Directory)

[Maps of Louisiana Grasses]

Maine GAP Products (FTP Directory)

Electronic Atlas of the Cape Cod Environment (Contains current and historic land use/land cover maps)

MICH Geographic Information System (MICH Fungal Bioinformatics Project)

Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain Ecoregional Plan 1999-2001 (PowerPoint)

True North: Mapping Minnesota's History (includes Pre-Settlement Vegetation, 1895; Native Food Sources (Wild Rice); and Forest Cover layers)

Checklist of the Grasses of Montana (Includes some distribution maps)

INVADERS Database System (Exotic plant data including county-level distribution maps)

Montana GAP Products (FTP Directory)

Montana Natural Heritage Program (Includes county level distribution maps)

National Gap Analysis Program (Biodiversity status of vegetation communities and vertebrates, land cover/land use)

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument (USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program)

Scotts Bluff National Monument (USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program)

Nevada GAP Products (FTP directory)

Nevada Mountain Atlas

Nevada Rare Plant Atlas

Plants of the Great Basin (Initially only Nevada Juniper distribution map)

Vegetation Map for White Rock Mountains

Vegetation Map for Wild Horse Range

Atlas of the Flora of New England (Includes county-level distribution maps)

Invasive Plant Atlas of New England

Location of the New Jersey Pinelands

Economic Features, Part of Central New Mexico, 1877 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 77(B). Covers W 106°52'30"--W 105°30'/N 35°40'--N 34°50’)

National Gap Analysis Program (Biodiversity status of vegetation communities and vertebrates, land cover/land use)

Land Classification Map of Part of Central New Mexico, 1879 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 78(A). Covers W 105°30'--W 104°07'30"/N 35°40'--N 34°50’)]

Land Classification Map of Part of Central New Mexico, 1876 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 69(D). Covers W 106°52'30"--W 105°30'/N 36°30'--N 35°40')

Land Classification Map of Part of Central New Mexico, 1878 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 77(D). Covers W 106°52'30"--W 105°30'/N 34°50'--N 34°)

Land Classification Map of Part of Central New Mexico, 1882 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 77. Covers W 108°15'--W 105°30'/N 35°40'--N 34°)

Land Classification Map of Part of North Central New Mexico, 1877 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 70(C). Covers W 105°30'--W 104°07'30"/N 36°30'--N 35°40')

Land Classification Map of Part of Southern New Mexico, 1879 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 84(B). Covers W 106°52'30'--W 105°30'/N 34°--N 33°10’)

Land Classification Map of Part of Southwestern New Mexico, 1881 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 84. Covers W 108°15'--W 105°30'/N 34°--N 33°20’)

Land Classification Map of Part of Southwestern New Mexico, 1881 (Shows timber areas; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) Atlas sheet 84(C). Covers W 108°15'--W 106°52'30"/N 33°10'--N 32°20’)

New Mexico GAP Products (FTP directory)

New Mexico State University Weed Information (Includes weed distribution maps)

Sevilleta Vegetation Map

New York GAP Products (FTP Directory)

New York Metropolitan Flora Project / Brooklyn Botanic Garden (Includes distribution maps of woody plants within counties)

INVADERS Database System (Exotic plant data including county-level distribution maps)

Northwest U.S. GAP Products (FTP directory)

Algaeweb (Includes county distribution maps for freshwater dinoflagellates)

Ohio Forest Cover from 1940 - 1994

Oklahoma Vascular Plants Database

INVADERS Database System (Exotic plant data including county-level distribution maps)

Landscape Conservation Networks : North American Fire Learning Network (The Nature Conservancy) (Includes Bighorns Landscape, WY-MT; Jemez Mountains, NM; Middle Niobrara Nebraska Sandhills; Long Island Pine Barrens, NY; Shawangunk Ridge, NY-NJ-PA; Upper Deschutes Basin, OR)

Oregon GAP Products (FTP Directory)

Tree Identification Home Page at Oregon State University (Distribution maps)

Western Oregon Vegetation

South Carolina Plant Atlas

South Dakota Vegetation Map

Jewel Cave National Monument (USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program)

Mount Rushmore National Historic Site (USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program)

Wind Cave National Park (USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program)

Atlas of Tennessee Vascular Plants

Coryphantha Homepage Distribution Maps by Reto F. Dicht

Diversity Map for Genus Helianthus [Sunflowers]

Vascular Plants Endemic to Texas

Atlas of the Vascular Plants of Utah

National Gap Analysis Program (Biodiversity status of vegetation communities and vertebrates, land cover/land use)

Utah GAP Products (FTP directory)

Vegetation classification

Virginia's Rare Plants and Animals

INVADERS Database System (Exotic plant data including county-level distribution maps)

The Washington Gap Analysis Home Page (Includes satellite images of Washington and King and Pierce counties, and maps of "Washington State Ecozones" and "Washington State Landcover")

Washington GAP Products (FTP directory)

West Virginia GAP Products (FTP directory)

Western U.S. GAP Products (FTP directory)

Point Distribution Mapping Datasets (Berkeley Natural History Museum)

Orchids of Wisconsin

Early Vegetation of Wisconsin (1965)

Wisconsin Vascular Plants (Includes county-level distribution maps. Wisconsin State Herbarium, University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Wisconsin Vegetation before 1850

Wisconsin Vegetation, 1850

Wisconsin Vegetation, 1990

INVADERS Database System (Exotic plant data including county-level distribution maps)

National Gap Analysis Program (Biodiversity status of vegetation communities and vertebrates, land cover/land use)

Wyoming GAP Products (FTP directory)

Devils Tower National Monument (USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program)

Fort Laramie National Historic Site (USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program)

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Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps

by Claire Englander and Philip Hoehn

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Document maintained on server by: Earth Sciences & Map Library
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Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Mapsby Claire Englander and Philip Hoehn

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Copyright © 2008 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Document maintained on server by: Earth Sciences & Map Library 1996. Last updated 01/27/2008.

Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps

by Claire Englander and Philip Hoehn

Copyright © 2008 The Regents of the University of California.
All rights reserved.
Document maintained on server by: Earth Sciences & Map Library
1996. Last updated 01/27/2008.