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Chilean Mediterranean Deciduous Forest Macrogroup | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Chilean Mediterranean Deciduous Forest Macrogroup Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019 Description: This macrogroup represents the deciduous forests of the central Chilean region, characterized by a moist Mediterranean climate. These are forests mostly distributed in sub-humid to humid conditions that occur in the higher elevations of the Coastal Cordillera from 1000-2200 m elevation and in the Andean western slopes of central Chile from 900-1800 m elevation. The canopy is closed, 15-20 m high and dominated by deciduous trees species accompanied by evergreen lauroid and sclerophyllous species. Diagnostic canopy species are <i>Nothofagus macrocarpa, Ribes punctatum, Nothofagus glauca, Nothofagus obliqua, Austrocedrus chilensis, Nothofagus alessandrii, Cryptocarya alba, Persea lingue</i>, and in the understory are <i>Aristotelia chilensis, Gevuina avellana, Azara petiolaris, Azara integrifolia, Lomatia hirsuta, Kageneckia oblonga, Sophora macrocarpa</i>, among many other species.  Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40905-{D35B04DB-5480-49F8-9D23-A5D298F75E54} Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
	Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization) Perspective from: 17-Apr-2014 to: ongoing
	status: accepted Community's Parent: Chilean Warm Temperate Forest & Woodland Division This Community's Level: Macrogroup This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.884802 NatureServe Explorer   Code: M653   Scientific: Chilean Mediterranean Deciduous Forest Macrogroup