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Pinus ponderosa - Calocedrus decurrens / Chamaebatia foliolosa Forest | Western Ecology Working Group of...
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Name: Pinus ponderosa - Calocedrus decurrens / Chamaebatia foliolosa Forest
Reference: Western Ecology Working Group of...
Description: This forest association is currently only known from Yosemite National Park in California, and the following description is based on occurrences there. Additional information will be added as it becomes available. Stands are found at submesic sites at mid elevations (1770-1950 m [5800-6400 feet]) on the mid to upper portions of south- to southwest-facing slopes. These sites tend to be undulating to linear and gentle to moderately steep (0-14°). These sites generally have well-developed but occasionally poorly developed soils with textures ranging from rocky, gravelly loam to loam of granitic parent material. Penetrability tends to be easy to moderate, and soil depths are medium to deep. Stands form a two-story structure with an intermittent to nearly closed tree layer dominated by <i>Pinus ponderosa</i> and <i>Calocedrus decurrens</i>, and a shrub layer dominated by <i>Chamaebatia foliolosa</i> and sometimes with <i>Arctostaphylos patula</i> with highly variable cover depending on overstory cover. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.32970.CEGL008672
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 17-Nov-2014 to: 01-May-2019
     
  • status: accepted
  • This Community's Level: association
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.687563 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Translated: Ponderosa Pine - Incense-cedar / Mountain Misery Forest
  Scientific: Pinus ponderosa - Calocedrus decurrens / Chamaebatia foliolosa Forest
  Code: CEGL008672