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Wildlife, Animals, and Plants
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DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Carnegiea gigantea | Saguaro
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION :
Saguaro occurs throughout most of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona,
California, and Mexico [65,68]. The northern limits of its distribution
are on the edge of the Hualapait Mountains in Arizona and along the
Colorado River in southeastern California [30,32,40,65]. The range of
saguaro extends southward; the largest populations of this species occur
in Sonora, Mexico [67].
ECOSYSTEMS :
FRES30 Desert shrub
STATES :
AZ CA MEXICO
ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS :
ORPI SAGU
BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS :
7 Lower Basin and Range
KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS :
K027 Mesquite bosque
K041 Creosotebush
K042 Creosotebush - bursage
K043 Paloverde - cactus shrub
K044 Creosotebush - tarbush
SAF COVER TYPES :
241 Western live oak
242 Mesquite
SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES :
NO-ENTRY
HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES :
Saguaro is a dominant or codominant member of the paloverde (Cercidium
spp.)/saguaro (also known as the spinose suffrutescent community) and
the paloverde/bursage (Ambrosia spp.) desertscrub community types on
bajadas (i.e., eroded outwash fans) [35,46,74,75,78]. Infrequently, on
the southwestern edge of its range, saguaro occurs in creosotebush
(Larrea spp.) communities as a xeroriparian species in arroyos and
washes [3,5,11,46].
Saguaro is a community type indicator species in the following
publication:
Vegetation of the Santa Catalina Mountains: Community types and
dynamics [46].
Related categories for Species: Carnegiea gigantea
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