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Monte Floodplain Forest Macrogroup | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Monte Floodplain Forest Macrogroup Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019 Description: These are gallery forests along rivers throughout the biogeographic province known as Monte in Argentina, where the climate is xeric and soils and groundwater have significant salinity contents in some places. The more diverse type of gallery forest tends to be distributed in the southern portions of the Monte in the Neuquen and Rio Negro provinces, on alluvial soils of sandy clayish texture. Mature forests can reach 20 m, but have a very poorly developed understory. Under more xeric conditions, the formation is not a forest but scattered trees. Diagnostic species are <i>Salix humboldtiana, Baccharis salicifolia, Tessaria absinthioides, Discaria trinervis, Discaria serratifolia, Phragmites australis (= Phragmites communis), Juncus acutus, Buddleja globosa, Glycirrhiza astragalina, Cortaderia rudiuscula</i>, and <i>Atriplex lampa</i>. Towards the north in the same region, with stronger xeric conditions and saline soils, in the Rio Atuel basin, develops another type of riparian forest or woodland which is formed by almost monodominant stands of <i>Tamarix gallica</i>. The younger stands are 0.5-2.5 m high, while the ones on older riverbanks can reach 3-5 m high. Also in the transition to the northern Atacama Desert, another type of riparian forest develops at the canyon bottoms of the Andes foothills. This open forest, 10-12 m high, is characterized by <i>Baccharis scandens, Cortaderia jubata, Equisetum giganteum, Escallonia angustifolia</i>, and <i>Myrica pavonis</i>.  Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40916-{0DD31B66-E3B2-4984-B82E-5A7264A3D039} 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: Northern Patagonian Flooded Forest Division This Community's Level: Macrogroup This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.884820 NatureServe Explorer   Code: M664   Scientific: Monte Floodplain Forest Macrogroup