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CEGL006954 Quercus falcata / Carya pallida - Quercus prinoides / Carex pensylvanica Woodland
Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available
Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Southern Red Oak / Sand Hickory - Dwarf Chinkapin Oak / Pennsylvania Sedge Woodland
Colloquial Name: Oak / Sand Hickory / Sedge Paleodune Woodland
Hierarchy Level: Association
Type Concept: This paleodune woodland occurs in paleodune habitats in the southern subregion of the New Jersey Pinelands near Maurice River, including TNC''s Willow Grove Lake Preserve and Manumuskin River Preserve. This community is characterized by an open canopy of dominant trees including various combinations of Quercus falcata, Quercus alba, and Quercus velutina, with smaller amounts of Sassafras albidum, Carya tomentosa, Pinus rigida, and Pinus echinata. Patchy low percent covers of the low heaths include Gaylussacia baccata and Vaccinium pallidum, while taller shrubs in patches or as scattered individuals with 5-10% cover include Quercus ilicifolia, Quercus prinoides, Quercus stellata, Gaylussacia frondosa, Carya pallida, and rarely Cornus florida. Most stands at Willow Grove Lake have little or no shrub oak cover, while stands at Manumuskin have an open shrub oak stratum, so a shrub oak variant may be needed pending more data. Smilax glauca also occurs as scattered vines. Carex pensylvanica forms a widespread herb stratum with 50-75% cover, with other herbs including Cladina subtenuis and Schizachyrium scoparium.
Diagnostic Characteristics: No Data Available
Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available
Classification Comments: Association described by A. Windisch (Ow1) based on mapping at Willow Grove Lake.
Similar NVC Types: No Data Available
note: No Data Available
Physiognomy and Structure: No Data Available
Floristics: No Data Available
Dynamics: This woodland is found on the xeric paleodune deposits near Maurice River in peripheral areas of the southern Pinelands. Because of its geographic location here in a matrix of oak-dominated forest on submesic Bridgeton Formation deposits, fires are infrequent relative to paleodunes sand barrens (PD) of the central Pinelands where the matrix is fire-prone pine-shrub oak barrens in a broad subregion of sandy substrates. As a result, this community supports open oak-hickory woodlands with a graminoid understory instead of nearly treeless paleodune sand barrens.
Environmental Description: No Data Available
Geographic Range: This paleodune woodland is restricted to the southwesterly parts of the New Jersey Pinelands near Maurice River, including TNC''s Willow Grove Lake Preserve and Manumuskin River Preserve (Windisch 1998a).
Nations: US
States/Provinces: NJ
Plot Analysis Summary:
http://vegbank.org/natureserve/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.688129
Confidence Level: Low - Poorly Documented
Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available
Grank: G1
Greasons: No Data Available
| Type | Name | Database Code | Classification Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| Class | 1 Forest & Woodland Class | C01 | 1 |
| Subclass | 1.B Temperate & Boreal Forest & Woodland Subclass | S15 | 1.B |
| Formation | 1.B.2 Cool Temperate Forest & Woodland Formation | F008 | 1.B.2 |
| Division | 1.B.2.Na Eastern North American Forest & Woodland Division | D008 | 1.B.2.Na |
| Macrogroup | 1.B.2.Na.9 Pitch Pine - oak spp. - American Holly North Atlantic Forest Macrogroup | M525 | 1.B.2.Na.9 |
| Group | 1.B.2.Na.9.b Black Oak - American Beech - Pitch Pine Coastal Plain Forest Group | G894 | 1.B.2.Na.9.b |
| Alliance | A3113 Southern Red Oak - Sand Hickory - Pine species Mid-Atlantic Paleodune Woodland Alliance | A3113 | 1.B.2.Na.9.b |
| Association | CEGL006954 Southern Red Oak / Sand Hickory - Dwarf Chinkapin Oak / Pennsylvania Sedge Woodland | CEGL006954 | 1.B.2.Na.9.b |
Concept Lineage: No Data Available
Predecessors: No Data Available
Obsolete Names: No Data Available
Obsolete Parents: No Data Available
Synonomy: = Quercus (alba, velutina, stellata, falcata) / Carya pallida - Quercus prinoides / Carex pensylvanica Woodland (Windisch 1995a)
> Mixed Oak - Shrub Oak - Sedge Xeric Woodland (Ow1) (Windisch 2014a)
> Oak - (Pine) - Shrub Oak Woodland (Ow2) (Windisch 2014a)
> Mixed Oak - Shrub Oak - Sedge Xeric Woodland (Ow1) (Windisch 2014a)
> Oak - (Pine) - Shrub Oak Woodland (Ow2) (Windisch 2014a)
- Eastern Ecology Working Group of NatureServe. No date. International Ecological Classification Standard: International Vegetation Classification. Terrestrial Vegetation. NatureServe, Boston, MA.
- Schweitzer, D .F., M. C. Minno, and D. L. Wagner. 2011. Rare, declining and poorly known butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) of forests and woodlands in the eastern United States. FHTET-2011-01. USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team, Morgantown, WV. 517 pp.
- Wagner, D. L., M. W. Nelson, and D. F. Schweitzer. 2003. Shrubland Lepidoptera of southern New England and southeastern New York: Ecology, conservation, and management. Forest Ecology and Management 185:95-112.
- Windisch, A .G. 2014a. Pinelands ecological communities and higher level groups with crosswalk / proposed 2008 revisions to NVC. November 16, 2014 draft. New Jersey Natural Heritage Program, Trenton.
- Windisch, A. G. 1995a. Natural community inventory of Willow Grove Lake Site, Salem, Cumberland and Gloucester counties, New Jersey. The Nature Conservancy draft report. New Jersey Natural Heritage Program, Trenton, NJ.
- Windisch, A. G., D. Snyder, and D. Schweitzer. 2000. Potential habitat and fire ecology of rare plants and Lepidoptera at Fort Dix, New Jersey, with emphasis on pitch pine-reedgrass savanna habitats. Unpublished report dated May 17, 2000, submitted to Fort Dix, Natural Resources Section. Office of Natural Lands Management, Parks and Forestry, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Tenton.