DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Hylocomium splendens  | Mountain-Fern Moss 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Mountain-fern moss occurs from Greenland to Alaska, south to North
Carolina, and west to Oregon and California.  It also occurs in the West
Indies, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand [9,14,16].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES22  Western white pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES24  Hemlock - Sitka spruce
   FRES25  Larch
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES44  Alpine


STATES : 
     AK  AZ  CA  CO  CT  DE  ID  IL  IN  IA
     KY  ME  MD  MA  MI  MN  MT  NH  NJ  NY
     NC  ND  OH  OR  PA  RI  SD  UT  VT  VA
     WA  WV  WI  WY  AB  BC  MB  NB  NF  NT
     NS  ON  PE  PQ  SK  YT


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
NO-ENTRY


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    4  Sierra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K001  Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K003  Silver fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K004  Fir - hemlock forest
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K013  Cedar - hemlock - pine forest
   K014  Grand fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest
   K020  Spruce - fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K021  Southwestern spruce - fir forest
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K094  Conifer bog
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K097  Southeastern spruce - fir forest
   K107  Northern hardwoods - fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
     5  Balsam fir
    12  Black spruce
    13  Black spruce - tamarack
    18  Paper birch
    24  Hemlock - yellow birch
    30  Red spruce - yellow birch
    31  Red spruce - sugar maple - beech
    32  Red spruce
    33  Red spruce - balsam fir
    34  Red spruce - Fraser fir
    35  Paper birch - red spruce - balsam fir
    37  Northern white-cedar
    38  Tamarack
   107  White spruce
   201  White spruce
   202  White spruce - paper birch
   204  Black spruce
   205  Mountain hemlock
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   218  Lodgepole pine
   223  Sitka spruce
   224  Western hemlock
   225  Western hemlock - Sitka spruce
   226  Coastal true fir - hemlock
   251  White spruce - aspen
   253  Black spruce - white spruce
   254  Black spruce -  paper birch
   256  California mixed subalpine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Mountain-fern moss is often an indicator of stable, late stages of
succession stands dominated by white spruce (Picea glauca) or black
spruce (P. mariana) [17].  Publications listing mountain-fern moss as a
dominant ground cover are as follows:

Field guide to forest ecosystems of west-central Alberta [10].
Flood-plain succession and vegetation classification in interior Alaska [29].
Some forest types of central Newfoundland and their relation to
  environmental factors [35].
A review of forest site classification acitivities in Newfoundland and
   Labrador [36].
A preliminary classification system for vegetation of Alaska [31].

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