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A.99 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.99
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: This alliance represents young, monospecific plantation stands of ~Pinus taeda$. These are cultivated forests and are not considered natural or near-natural vegetation. They are maintained as plantations for the harvest of forest products (usually pulpwood). The core concept of these stands are those which support dense, often perfect rows of planted ~Pinus taeda$ or otherwise dense, young, stands which are managed and maintained for the extraction of forest products. In most cases these stands support almost no other tree species in the overstory, and typically very little understory. This association rarely exceeds 20-40 years of age on most timberlands. Stands are typically established with mechanical planting, but may also be established through other means. Excluded from this association are plantation stands which have "broken up" with age to approximate a more natural structure. Dense planting in rows, if successful, tends to result in nearly complete canopy closure which persists until the stand has either been regenerated or transitions into a different association. Herbaceous ground cover of any kind tends to be sparse due to reduction during site preparation, the typically dense canopy cover, and to the fact that many young plantations are infrequently burned at best. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.2616.A99
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: 01-May-2019
     
  • status: accepted
  • Community's Parent: I.A.8.C.x
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Code: A.99
  Scientific: PINUS TAEDA PLANTED FOREST ALLIANCE
  Common: Loblolly Pine Planted Forest Alliance