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Name: Nyssa aquatica Forest
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This semipermanently flooded water tupelo swamp forest is found in the Coastal Plain from Virginia south to Florida, west to Texas, and north in the Mississippi delta region to Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky. Stands occur on permanently saturated soils on low, wet flats and sloughs, swales and backswamps, and the association is more common on floodplains of brownwater, rather than blackwater, rivers. Both organic and mineral soils may be present. The vegetation is dominated by dense, and occasionally pure, stands of <i>Nyssa aquatica</i> but often in association with <i>Taxodium distichum</i> (never very abundant in this type), <i>Liquidambar styraciflua, Planera aquatica, Nyssa biflora, Gleditsia aquatica, Fraxinus profunda</i>, and <i>Cephalanthus occidentalis</i>. The herbaceous layer is conspicuously sparse, and density is wholly dependent upon the extent and duration of flooding. Where water is permanent, herbaceous plants rely on substrates found on rotting logs, stumps, terraces, and buttresses of trees. Subcanopy density and forest tree recruitment are poor due to fluctuating water levels. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.36021.CEGL002419
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:   Code: CEGL002419
  Common: Water Tupelo Swamp Forest
  Scientific: Nyssa aquatica Forest
  Translated: Water Tupelo Forest
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