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Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces comprise a riverine ecoregion that provides important wildlife corridors and habitat.
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Floodplains and Low Terraces are a continuation of the riverine 65p ecoregion across the Southern Coastal Plain.
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The Floodplains and Low Terraces ecoregion of the Texas Blackland Prairies includes only the broadest floodplains, i.e., those of the Trinity, Brazos, and Colorado rivers.
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Floodplains, fluvial terraces, and alluvial fans are most extensive in Ojai Valley.
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Covering primarily the Holocene floodplain and low terrace deposits, the Floodplains and Low Terraces ecoregion, especially to the southwest, has a different bottomland forest than the floodplains of Ecoregion 35.
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In Texas, the Floodplains and Low Terraces of Ecoregion 35 comprise the western margin of the southern bottomland hardwood communities that extend along the Gulf and Atlantic coastal plains from Texas to Virginia.
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Ecoregion 35c is less dissected and more poorly-drained than the Cretaceous Dissected Uplands (35d), and is floristically unlike the Floodplains and Low Terraces (35b).
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Floodplains have meanders and many swampy sloughs where river channels have shifted their courses.
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The Floodplains and Low Terraces ecoregion is nearly level, susceptible to flooding, and veneered by alluvium; it includes natural levees, swales, terraces, and slowly moving streams in meandering, low gradient channels.
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The Floodplains and Low Terraces ecoregion contains floodplain and low terrace deposits downstream from Ecoregion 32 and upstream from Ecoregions 34 and 35.
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