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Pinus ponderosa / Pteridium aquilinum Woodland | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Pinus ponderosa / Pteridium aquilinum Woodland
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This association has only been described from Zion National Park, Utah. Additional global information will be added as it becomes available. At Zion National Park, <i>Pinus ponderosa</i> has 50-60% canopy cover with an understory dominated by <i>Pteridium aquilinum</i> at 80% foliar cover. Grasses and forbs are present and contribute less than 5% cover. Where openings in the canopy of the mature ponderosa pine occur, grasses and sedges dominate mesic meadows. Small stream channels meander through Pine Valley from the Upper Kolob Plateau feeding ponderosa pine woodlands and grassland meadows at an elevation of 2103 m (6900 feet). Following a prescribed surface fire in 1998, bracken fern established as dense understory vegetation. The terrain is gentle with moderately well-drained sandy soils. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:31846-{DCCECDD7-EA37-45FF-A34D-2CEB5EA05BD9}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 25-Apr-2017 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.686633 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL002944
  Translated: Ponderosa Pine / Western Brackenfern Woodland
  Scientific: Pinus ponderosa / Pteridium aquilinum Woodland
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