BBS Physiographic Strata Names
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Source:
Droege, Sam. 1990. The North American Breeding Bird Survey. pages 1-4. in J.R. Sauer and S. Droege, eds. Survey designs and statistical methods for the estimation of avian population trends. USFWS Biological Report 90(1). 160 pp. As modified from --
Bystrak, Danny. 1981. The North American Breeding Bird Survey. pages 34-41. in C.J. Ralph and J.M. Scott, eds. Estimating numbers of terrestrial birds. Studies in Avian Biology No. 6. 630 pp.
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Stratum
|
Name
|
Area Km2
|
|
Stratum
|
Name
|
Area Km2
|
01
|
Subtropical
|
18226
|
|
37
|
Drift Prairie�
|
247060
|
02
|
Floridian
|
63636
|
|
38
|
Glaciated Missouri Plateau
|
275586
|
03
|
Coastal Flatwoods
|
157110
|
|
39
|
Great Plains Roughlands
|
369965
|
04
|
Upper Coastal Plain
|
513884
|
|
40
|
Black Prairie
|
147060
|
05
|
Mississippi Alluvial Plain
|
109126
|
|
53
|
Edward's Plateau
|
78516
|
06
|
Coastal Prairies
|
73804
|
|
54
|
Rolling Red Plains
|
114084
|
07
|
South Texas Brushlands
|
86369
|
|
55
|
Staked Plains
|
129818
|
08
|
East Texas Prairies�
|
105115
|
|
56
|
Chihuahuan Desert
|
163419
|
09
|
Glaciated Coastal Plains
|
5825
|
|
61
|
Black Hills
|
14751
|
10
|
Northern Piedmont
|
32820
|
|
62
|
Southern Rockies
|
133649
|
11
|
Southern Piedmont
|
169837
|
|
63
|
Fraser Plateau
|
116550
|
12
|
Southern New England
|
37809
|
|
64
|
Central Rockies
|
423978
|
13
|
Ridge and Valley
|
144262
|
|
65
|
Dissected Rockies
|
177208
|
14
|
Highland Rim�
|
120800
|
|
66
|
Sierra Nevada�
|
56957
|
15
|
Lexington Plain
|
54468
|
|
67
|
Cascade Mountains
|
54750
|
16
|
Great Lakes Plain�
|
181176
|
|
68
|
Northern Rockies
|
697047
|
17
|
Driftless Area
|
59773
|
|
80
|
Great Basin Deserts
|
152983
|
18
|
St. Lawrence River Plain
|
99163
|
|
81
|
Mexican Highlands
|
74592
|
19
|
Ozark/Ouachita Plateau
|
158213
|
|
82
|
Sonoran Deserts
|
109878
|
20
|
Great Lakes Transition
|
108992
|
|
83
|
Mojave Desert
|
86597
|
21
|
Cumberland Plateau
|
52889
|
|
84
|
Pinyon/Juniper Woodlands
|
195587
|
22
|
Ohio Hills
|
76926
|
|
85
|
Pitt-Klamath Plateau
|
69199
|
23
|
Blue Ridge Mountains
|
40059
|
|
86
|
Wyoming Basin
|
122850
|
24
|
Allegheny Plateau�
|
133238
|
|
87
|
Intermountain Grasslands
|
318697
|
25
|
Open Boreal Forest�
|
169844
|
|
88
|
Basin and Range
|
212123
|
26
|
Adirondack Mountains
|
24872
|
|
89
|
Columbia Plateau
|
238601
|
27
|
Northern New England
|
52412
|
|
90
|
Southern California Grasslands
|
35398
|
28
|
Northern Spruce/Hardwoods
|
609324
|
|
91
|
Central Valley
|
55991
|
29
|
Closed Boreal Forest
|
1025965
|
|
92
|
California Foothills
|
79642
|
30
|
Aspen Parklands
|
358734
|
|
93
|
Southern Pacific Rainforests
|
134742
|
31
|
Till Plains
|
201004
|
|
94
|
Northern Pacific Rainforests
|
138246
|
32
|
Dissected Till Plains
|
228855
|
|
95
|
Los Angeles Ranges
|
5470
|
33
|
Osage Plain/Cross Timbers
|
154162
|
|
96
|
Southern Alaska Coast
|
NA
|
34
|
High Plains Border
|
166823
|
|
98
|
Willamette Lowlands
|
12934
|
35
|
Rolling Red Prairies
|
90164
|
|
99
|
Tundra
|
NA
|
36
|
High Plains
|
236133
|
|
|
|
|