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In November 1999 The Nature Conservancy released a final version of "A Guide to Caribbean Vegetation Types: Classification Systems and Descriptions," They have mounted 35 vegetation maps for the Insular Caribbean (on an island-by-island basis---some maps are at 1:500,000 scale, others are at 1:24,000). This "Vegetation Atlas" is a terrific resource, because what they have done is to take the best/most recent vegetative mapping for an island, and then reclassified it, using the new standard classification system. This is a very powerful tool for mapping and comparing land covers in the insular Caribbean. These existing maps can be consulted at the USGS server at http://edcintl.cr.usgs.gov/igdn/tnc/metadata.html. Please contact The Nature Conservancy if you have updates and corrections Note that the images available on this site are not actually maps---they are JPEG images which cannot be directly queried as a GIS coverage might be. It is likely that arrangements could be made with the Nature Conservancy to secure regular GIS resources.
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