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Castanea dentata - Quercus rubra Forest Alliance | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Castanea dentata - Quercus rubra Forest Alliance Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro... Description: This alliance once occurred at high elevations in the Appalachian Mountains. These forests were dominated by mixtures of Castanea dentata and Quercus rubra, but all associations in this alliance now are extirpated. Castanea dentata was a major forest dominant in the eastern United States that has virtually been eliminated since 1900 by Cryphonectria parasitica (= Endothia parasitica) (Chestnut Blight), introduced on Asiatic chestnut. In the Great Smoky Mountains, these forests occurred at high elevations (mostly over 4500 feet, 1400 m) and have been described as the submesic, high-altitude equivalent of chestnut oak - chestnut forests, dominated by Quercus rubra and Castanea dentata, sometimes with Fagus grandifolia or Quercus alba. Other associated species included Halesia tetraptera var. monticola, Rhododendron calendulaceum, Vaccinium spp., Carex pensylvanica, Athyrium filix-femina ssp. asplenioides, Laportea canadensis, and Rugelia nudicaulis. Today these forests have been replaced, in part, by forests in the I.B.2.N.a Quercus rubra Montane Forest Alliance (A.272), I.B.2.N.a Quercus alba Montane Forest Alliance (A.271), and I.B.2.N.a Quercus prinus - Quercus rubra Forest Alliance (A.250). There is some hope for the potential recovery of these forests, or something resembling it, if a blight-resistant chestnut can be developed and introduced.  Accession Code: VB.CC.18653.CASTANEADENTATA Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
	Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization) Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: 01-May-2019
	status: accepted This Community's Level: Alliance This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   Scientific: Castanea dentata - Quercus rubra Forest Alliance   Translated: American Chestnut - Northern Red Oak Forest Alliance   UID: HIGHER_CLASS_UNIT.2.125824 NatureServe Explorer   Code: A.268