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CEGL003157 Pinus monticola - Pinus contorta var. murrayana / Sparse Understory Woodland

Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available


Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Western White Pine - Sierra Lodgepole Pine / Sparse Understory Woodland

Colloquial Name: No Data Available

Hierarchy Level:  Association

Type Concept: This association has only been described from Yosemite National Park and environs. Information about its global characteristics is not available without additional inventory.

Diagnostic Characteristics: No Data Available

Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available

Classification Comments: No Data Available

Similar NVC Types: No Data Available
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Physiognomy and Structure: No Data Available

Floristics: No Data Available

Dynamics:  No Data Available

Environmental Description:  No Data Available

Geographic Range: No Data Available

Nations: US

States/Provinces:  CA




Confidence Level: Low - Poorly Documented

Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available

Grank: GNR

Greasons: No Data Available


Concept Lineage: No Data Available

Predecessors: No Data Available

Obsolete Names: No Data Available

Obsolete Parents: No Data Available

Synonomy: = Pinus monticola - Pinus contorta var. murrayana/Achnatherum occidentale Forest [Provisional] (Keeler-Wolf et al. 2012)
= Pinus monticola - Pinus contorta var. ssp. murrayana (Sawyer et al. 2009) [87.170.07]

Concept Author(s): Sawyer et al. (2009)

Author of Description: No Data Available

Acknowledgements: No Data Available

Version Date: No Data Available

  • Keeler-Wolf, T., M. Schindel, S. San, P. Moore, and D. Hickson. 2003a. Classification of the vegetation of Yosemite National Park and surrounding environs in Tuolumne, Mariposa, Madera and Mono counties, California. Unpublished report by NatureServe in cooperation with the California Native Plant Society and California Department of Fish and Game, Wildlife and Habitat Data Analysis Branch, Sacramento, CA.
  • Keeler-Wolf, T., P. E. Moore, E. T. Reyes, J. M. Menke, D. N. Johnson, and D. L. Karavidas. 2012. Yosemite National Park vegetation classification and mapping project report. Natural Resource Technical Report NPS/YOSE/NRTR--2012/598. National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO.
  • Sawyer, J. O., T. Keeler-Wolf, and J. Evens. 2009. A manual of California vegetation. Second edition. California Native Plant Society, Sacramento CA. 1300 pp.
  • Western Ecology Working Group of NatureServe. No date. International Ecological Classification Standard: International Vegetation Classification. Terrestrial Vegetation. NatureServe, Boulder, CO.