{"thcode":62,"term":{"code":"BC-579","name":"Freshwater Tidal Forest\/Woodland","parent":"BC-438","scope":"Biotic Group: Tidal riverine areas dominated by salt-intolerant tree species that are greater than 6 meters tall. The list of Biotic Communities for this group is long: a few examples are provided below, and the complete list is available in Appendix F."},"uf":[],"bt":[{"code":"BC-438","name":"Tidal Forest\/Woodland","parent":"BC-397","scope":"Biotic Subclass: Estuarine or tidal riverine areas with greater than 10% tree cover. This cutoff value is the standard employed by FGDC-STD-005-2008 for defining the Forest and Woodland Formation Class [FGDC 2008]."},{"code":"BC-397","name":"Forested Wetland","parent":"BC-389","scope":"Biotic Class: Areas in this class are characterized by woody vegetation that is generally 6 meters or taller. ..."},{"code":"BC-389","name":"Benthic\/Attached Biota","parent":"BC-C002","scope":"Biotic Setting: This biotic setting describes areas where biota lives on, in, or in close association with the seafloor or other substrates (e.g., pilings, buoys), extending down into the sediment to include the sub-surface layers of substrate that contain multi-cellular life. ..."},{"code":"BC-C002","name":"Biotic","parent":"root","scope":null},{"code":"root","name":"CMECS","parent":null,"scope":"Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard: Category terms encompassing waters from the head of tide or inland incursion of ocean salinity to the splash zone of the coasts to the deepest portions of the oceans and the deep waters of the Great Lakes."}],"nt":[],"rt":[]}