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Chilean Mediterranean Coastal Semi-Desert Scrub & Grassland Macrogroup | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Chilean Mediterranean Coastal Semi-Desert Scrub & Grassland Macrogroup
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This macrogroup represents the plant communities that develop along the coast and up to 1200 m elevation on the Chilean Coastal Range under the hyper-desertic conditions of the Atacama Desert, only in situations with some moisture availability provided by the fog that forms thanks to the proximity of the ocean and the Coastal Range. They are shrublands and dense thickets up to 2 m high, with columnar succulents 3-4 m tall. The vegetation cover is usually 30-40% and may reach values up to 80% in the most favorable situations, which happen at about 700-800 m elevation or the optimum elevation for fog formation, so the communities get impoverished as they occur both lower or upper in the elevational gradient. Characteristic species are <i>Euphorbia lactiflua, Eulychnia saint-pieana, Eulychnia iquiquensis, Echinopsis fulvilanus, Echinopsis deserticola, Heliotropium talatalense, Heliotropium</i> spp., <i>Puya boliviensis, Oxalis gigantea, Proustia tipia, Nolana crassulifolia, Nolana leptophylla, Ophryosporus triangularis</i>, among many others. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:41013-{429D6A32-A761-442D-9D57-6C2599BBB05F}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 17-Apr-2014 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.885139 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: M784
  Scientific: Chilean Mediterranean Coastal Semi-Desert Scrub & Grassland Macrogroup