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A.1570 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.1570
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: One stand in this alliance was reported from White Sands Missile Range in the Tularosa Basin of southern New Mexico. Elevations range from 1200-2700 m at White Sands Missile Range. The climate is arid. Mean annual precipitation is 22 cm with over half occurring during the late summer monsoon season often as high-intensity convection storm. Grasslands in this Chihuahuan Desert alliance are dominated by the perennial shortgrass ~Bouteloua eriopoda$. There is also a sparse dwarf-shrub layer dominated by ~Artemisia bigelovii$. More detailed description information was not available. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.1326.A1570
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: 17-Mar-2005
     
  • status: accepted
  • Community's Parent: V.A.8.N.a
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: BOUTELOUA ERIOPODA DWARF-SHRUB HERBACEOUS ALLIANCE
  Code: A.1570
  Common: Black Grama Dwarf-shrub Herbaceous Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Bouteloua eriopoda Dwarf-shrub Herbaceous Alliance