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WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Dipodomys ordii | Ord's Kangaroo Rat
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION :
Ord's kangaroo rat ranges from southern Alberta and southern
Saskatchewan to southern Hidalgo, Mexico, and from central Oregon and
eastern California east to central Kansas and Oklahoma [11].
ECOSYSTEMS :
FRES21 Ponderosa pine
FRES28 Western hardwoods
FRES29 Sagebrush
FRES30 Desert shrub
FRES31 Shinnery
FRES32 Texas savanna
FRES33 Southwestern shrubsteppe
FRES34 Chaparral-mountain shrub
FRES35 Pinyon-juniper
FRES38 Plains grasslands
FRES39 Prairie
FRES40 Desert grasslands
STATES :
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CA |
CO |
ID |
KS |
MT |
NE |
NV |
NM |
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| OR |
SD |
TX |
UT |
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BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS :
5 Columbia Plateau
6 Upper Basin and Range
7 Lower Basin and Range
8 Northern Rocky Mountains
9 Middle Rocky Mountains
10 Wyoming Basin
11 Southern Rocky Mountains
12 Colorado Plateau
13 Rocky Mountain Piedmont
14 Great Plains
16 Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands
KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS :
K022 Great Basin pine forest
K023 Juniper-pinyon woodland
K024 Juniper steppe woodland
K027 Mesquite bosque
K031 Oak-juniper woodlands
K032 Transition between K031 and K037
K033 Chaparral
K037 Mountain-mahogany-oak scrub
K038 Great Basin sagebrush
K039 Blackbrush
K040 Saltbush-greasewood
K041 Creosotebush
K042 Creosotebush-bursage
K043 Paloverde-cactus shrub
K044 Creosotebush-tarbush
K047 Fescue-oatgrass
K050 Fescue-wheatgrass
K051 Wheatgrass-bluegrass
K055 Sagebrush steppe
K064 Grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass
K065 Grama-buffalograss
K066 Wheatgrass-needlegrass
K067 Wheatgrass-bluestem-needlegrass
K068 Wheatgrass-grama-buffalograss
K069 Bluestem-grama prairie
K085 Mesquite-buffalograss
K070 Sandsage-bluestem prairie
K088 Fayette prairie
SAF COVER TYPES :
68 Mesquite
220 Rocky Mountain juniper
238 Western juniper
242 Mesquite
SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES :
104 Antelope bitterbrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
105 Antelope bitterbrush-Idaho fescue
106 Bluegrass scabland
107 Western juniper/big sagebrush/bluebunch wheatgrass
109 Ponderosa pine shrubland
110 Ponderosa pine-grassland
210 Bitterbrush
211 Creosotebush scrub
212 Blackbush
314 Big sagebrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
315 Big sagebrush-Idaho fescue
316 Big sagebrush-rough fescue
317 Bitterbrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
318 Bitterbrush-Idaho fescue
319 Bitterbrush-rough fescue
320 Black sagebrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
321 Black sagebrush-Idaho fescue
322 Curlleaf mountain-mahogany-bluebunch wheatgrass
324 Threetip sagebrush-Idaho fescue
401 Basin big sagebrush
402 Mountain big sagebrush
403 Wyoming big sagebrush
404 Threetip sagebrush
405 Black sagebrush
406 Low sagebrush
407 Stiff sagebrush
408 Other sagebrush types
409 Tall forb
412 Juniper-pinyon woodland
414 Salt desert shrub
416 True mountain-mahogany
501 Saltbush-greasewood
503 Arizona chaparral
504 Juniper-pinyon pine woodland
506 Creosotebush-bursage
507 Palo verde-cactus
508 Creosotebush-tarbush
509 Transition between oak-juniper woodland and mahogany-oak association
605 Sandsage prairie
606 Wheatgrass-bluestem-needlegrass
607 Wheatgrass-needlegrass
608 Wheatgrass-grama-needlegrass
612 Sagebrush-grass
614 Crested wheatgrass
615 Wheatgrass-saltgrass-grama
701 Alkali sacaton-tobosagrass
702 Black grama-alkali sacaton
703 Black grama-sideoats grama
704 Blue grama-western wheatgrass
705 Blue grama-galleta
706 Blue grama-sideoats grama
707 Blue grama-sideoats grama-black grama
709 Bluestem-grama
712 Galleta-alkali sacaton
713 Grama-muhly-threeawn
714 Grama-bluestem
715 Grama-buffalograss
716 Grama-feathergrass
718 Mesquite-grama
720 Sand bluestem-little bluestem (dunes)
721 Sand bluestem-little bluestem (plains)
722 Sand sagebrush-mixed prairie
725 Vine mesquite-alkali sacaton
727 Mesquite-buffalograss
PLANT COMMUNITIES :
Ord's kangaroo rats occur in communities on sandy soils including
semiarid grasslands, mixed-grass prairie, shrub- and scrublands, and
pinyon (Pinus spp.)-juniper (Juniperus spp.) woodlands [11]. In Canada
Ord's kangaroo rats are confined to open, sandy areas with a sparse
cover of sagebrush (Artemisia spp.), snowberry (Symphoricarpos spp.),
rose (Rosa spp.), creeping juniper (J. horizontalis), and buffaloberry
(Shepherdia spp.); the distribution of Ord's kangaroo rats appears to be
closely associated with that of lanceleaved breadroot (Psoralea
lanceolata) [2]. In Oregon Ord's kangaroo rats occur in big sagebrush
(A. tridentata), western juniper (J. occidentalis), and greasewood
(Sarcobatus spp.) communities. In Idaho they are most abundant in
juniper woodlands with rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus spp.) and winterfat
(Krascheninnikovia lanata) in the understory [11], but also occur on
shadscale (Atriplex confertifolia) range [12]. In Utah Ord's kangaroo
rats have an affinity for sagebrush, pinyon-juniper, and saltbush
(Atriplex spp.) communities [11]. In Nevada Ord's kangaroo rats are
associated with big sagebrush communities [37]. In Colorado Ord's
kangaroo rats comprised 19 percent of small mammal captures in
pinyon-juniper forest, scattered pinyon-juniper, and pinyon-juniper in
canyon habitats [30]. In New Mexico Ord's kangaroo rats are found in
yucca (Yucca spp.), oak (Quercus spp.), mesquite (Prosopis spp.),
saltbush, and creosotebush (Larrea tridentata) communities [11,23].
They are particularly abundant in mesquite sand dunes [7]. In Texas
Ord's kangaroo rats occur in honey mesquite (P. glandulosa), sand
sagebrush (Artemisia filifolia), yucca, sand shinnery oak (Q. havardii),
and broom snakeweed (Gutierrezia sarothrae) communities [11]. In
southwestern Kansas Ord's kangaroo rats are characteristic residents of
sand sagebrush prairie [33].
REFERENCES :
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Related categories for Wildlife Species: Dipodomys ordii
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