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Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps: Central America

Lists of online vegetation maps from website titled "Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps." These lists of links are no longer being actively maintained and are provided for archival purposes only.

Central America & West Indies

Central America & West Indies (see also Latin America and North America)

Central America

América Central : cobertura vegetal y de suelo = vegetation/land cover
Centers of Plant Diversity : Middle America & Caribbean Islands
Central America Land Cover and Contour Lines
Coastal Systems of Central America
Hydrology & Coastal Systems of Central America
Mountains and Mountain Forests Central America  (Also covers Mexico, UNEP-WCMC)

Belize

[Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area (RBCMA)]

Dominica

Dominica Land Cover
Dominica : National Parks & Forest Reserves ; Generalized Land Use Map ; Generalized Vegetation Map

Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic Forest Types (1922)
Dominican Republic Vegetation Types
Dominican Republic : Vegetation Types (small)
Hispaniola : Vegetation Map Showing the General Distribution of Dry, Moist, and Pine Forests (Modified from Holdridge, 1945)

El Salvador

Vegetation and Land Use

Guatemala

Project For A Sustainable Peten Forest: The Maya Biosphere Reserve, Peten, Guatemala

Haiti

Haiti Vegetation Map
Hispaniola : Vegetation Map Showing the General Distribution of Dry, Moist, and Pine Forests (Modified from Holdridge, 1945)

Jamaica

Jamaica Vegetation and Land Cover

Nicaragua

Nicaragua Land Utilization and Vegetation Map, 1979

Panama

Mapa de vegetación de Panama

Puerto Rico

Land Cover and Forest Formations for Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico Terrestrial Conservation Targets

St. Eustatius

Land Cover and Forest Formations for St. Kitts Nevis and St. Eustatius
St. Eustatius : Vegetation Map

St. Kitts and Nevis

Land Cover and Forest Formations for St. Kitts Nevis and St. Eustatius
Landsat-derived Land Use Maps of St. Kitts and Nevis Islands : [Conservation Opportunities Where Sugar Cane Cultivation Has Become Unprofitable]

St. Maarten

St. Maarten : Vegegation Map

St. Vincent

St. Vincent : Vegetation Map

West Indies

Caribbean Vegetation Atlas / The Nature Conservancy  (Includes vegatation maps of Andros (Bahamas), Anegada, Anguilla, Antigua, Aruba, Barbados, Barbuda, Bimini (Bahamas), Bonaire, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grand Caymen, Grenada, Grenada Grenadines, Guadalupe, Jamaica, Little Caymen, Martinique, Monserrat, Nevis, Saba, St. Barthelemy, St. Eustasius, St. John, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Martin, St. Vincent, St. Vincent Grenadines, Tobago, Tortola, Trinidad and Virgin Gorda)
Greater Antilles Vegetation
Land Cover and Forest Formations for Barbados
Land Cover and Forest Formations for Grenada
Lesser Antilles Land Cover and Forest Formation
Lesser Antilles Vegetation
Land Cover and Forest Formations for Mona
Mountains and Mountain Forests Caribbean  (UNEP-WCMC)
Types of Coastal Systems of the Central Caribbean Marine Ecoregions
Vegetation Map of Latin America / JRC Ispra  (Downloadable datasets in various formats -- in "Products" section)

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South America

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North America

Pacific

Arctic (Polar Regions)

Guide History

Original title of website: Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps

Compiled by Claire Englander (1996-2013).  Founding co-compiler Philip Hoehn (1996-2009).   With thanks to Phyllis Bischof, Ed Colijn, Rheal Coupal, John Creaser, Larry Cruse, Joe Dalton, Hugh Eva, Vic Fazio, Xavier Font Castell, Steve Glenn, Lawrence Hislop, Robert Hoare, Michael Jennings, Stephen Killeffer, Brian Klinkenberg, Raino Lampinen, Andrew Lillie, David MacDevette, Philippe Mayaux, Justin Moat, Jim Moore, Tom Owens, Scott Sundberg, Thomas A. Stone, Urs-Beat Brändli, Rob Waller, Hugh D.Wilson and George Wooten.

Maps are no longer being added to or deleted from these lists - the lists are maintained in this guide for archival purposes only.

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