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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 27.
Published in final edited form as: Ecol Indic. 2017;83:462–473. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.07.026

Table 3.

Hectares of agricultural land selected as potentially amenable to wetland restoration (PRW-Ag) across ecoregions by the three classes of wetland potential.

Omernik Level 2 Ecoregion Name Ecoregion Code Low PRW-Ag (ha) % Ecoregion Moderate PRW-Ag (ha) % Ecoregion High PRW-Ag (ha) % Ecoregion Total PRW-Ag (ha) % Ecoregion
Mixed Wood Shield 5.2 38,576 0 134,285 1 247,983 1 420,844 2
Atlantic Highlands 5.3 38,674 0 43,075 0 28,938 0 110,687 1
Western Cordillera 6.2 43,456 0 220,083 0 262,957 0 526,495 1
Marine West Coast Forest 7.1 46,831 1 117,228 1 171,857 2 335,916 4
Mixed Wood Plains 8.1 536,895 1 633,077 2 1,324,509 3 2,494,480 7
Central USA Plains 8.2 878,950 4 1,272,934 6 4,418,555 20 6,570,438 29
Southeastern USA Plains 8.3 558,949 1 2,404,201 2 1,855,889 2 4,819,039 5
Ozark/Ouachita-Appalachian Forests 8.4 125,577 0 551,086 1 161,384 0 838,047 2
Mississippi Alluvial & Southeast Coastal Plains 8.5 573,257 2 1,455,116 4 4,470,921 13 6,499,294 20
Temperate Prairies 9.2 2,039,693 4 8,373,825 16 5,694,313 11 16,107,831 31
West-Central Semiarid Prairies 9.3 39,672 0 3,117,022 5 205,918 0 3,362,612 6
South Central Semiarid Prairies 9.4 15,312 0 1,437,067 1 122,952 0 1,575,331 2
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Plain 9.5 33,473 0 881,218 12 368,415 5 1,283,107 18
Tamaulipas-Texas Semiarid Plain 9.6 15 0 2,406 0 164 0 2,585 0
Cold Deserts 10.1 29,445 0 510,905 1 295,441 0 835,791 1
Warm Deserts 10.2 85 0 3,125 0 1,130 0 4,339 0
Mediterranean California 11.1 10,061 0 85,082 1 495,779 3 590,922 4
Western Sierra Madre Piedmont 12.1 0 0 61 0 0 0 61 0
Upper Gila Mountains 13.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Everglades 15.4 16,669 1 20,943 1 277,026 13 314,638 15
Total 5,025,588 0.66 21,262,738 2.78 20,404,131 2.67 46,692,457 6.10