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DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE

SPECIES: Quercus arizonica | Arizona White Oak
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Arizona white oak is distributed from central Arizona to southwestern New Mexico [59,66,77]. Scattered populations occur in western Texas and northern Mexico. In Mexico, the range of Arizona white oak extends from the state of Coahuila westward to Baja California Sur [16,27,39,42,61]. It occurs in fewer than 20 locations in Baja California Sur and is a species of concern in Mexico [40]. ECOSYSTEMS : FRES20 Douglas-fir FRES21 Ponderosa pine FRES28 Western hardwoods FRES31 Shinnery FRES32 Texas savanna FRES34 Chaparral - mountain shrub FRES35 Pinyon - juniper STATES : AZ NM TX MEXICO ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : BIBE CHIR CORO FOBO SAGU BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 7 Lower Basin and Range 12 Colorado Plateau 13 Rocky Mountain Piedmont KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : K018 Pine - Douglas-fir forest K019 Arizona pine forest K023 Juniper - pinyon woodland K031 Oak - juniper woodlands K071 Shinnery SAF COVER TYPES : 67 Mohrs (shin) oak 210 Interior Douglas-fir 235 Cottonwood - willow 237 Interior ponderosa pine 239 Pinyon - juniper 240 Arizona cypress 241 Western live oak SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : NO-ENTRY HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : Arizona white oak is found in diverse communities along elevation or moisture gradients from savannas, semidesert grasslands, and interior chaparral [10,57] to Madrean evergreen woodland and pine-oak (Pinus spp.-Quercus spp.) communities [7]. Arizona white oak is codominant with Emory oak (Q. emoryi) and gray oak in the encinal mixed woodland series and Madrean evergreen woodland series [9,19,38,52]. Arizona white oak habitat series occur in savannas of New Mexico [19]. Arizona white oak is an indicator species in dry Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), Chihuahua pine (Pinus leiophylla var. chihuahuana), ponderosa pine (P. ponderosa), and Apache pine (P. engelmanii) habitat and community types [1,3,55,63]. Arizona white oak is dominant or codominant in open and closed-canopy pinyon-juniper (Juniperus spp.) woodlands [28,53]. Occasionally, Arizona white oak is an important understory species in pinyon-juniper stands [58] and Mexican pinyon (P. cembroides) forests [46]. Isolated Arizona white oak occur infrequently in riparian woodland associations, such as Arizona walnut (Juglans major) and Arizona sycamore (Platanus wrightii) community types with permanent or semipermanent streams [43,44,69,73,75]. Arizona white oak occurs on edges of interior chaparral of Arizona in communities such as the Arizona white oak-yellowleaf silktassel (Garrya flavescens)-Emory oak association [11,13,35,63]. Some of the publications in which Arizona white oak is listed as a dominant or indicator species are: (1) Forest and woodland habitat types (plant associations) of Arizona south of the Mogollon Rim and southwestern New Mexico [3] (2) Forest habitat types south of the Mogollon Rim, Arizona and New Mexico [18] (3) Classification of mixed broadleaf riparian forest in Tonto National Forest [37] (4) A series vegetation classification for Region 3 [52] (5) A forest habitat type classification of southern Arizona and its relationship to forests of the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico [54] (6) Vegetation of the Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona: a gradient analysis of the south slope [82]. Woody species associated with Arizona white oak but not previously mentioned in Distribution and Occurrence information include Arizona madrone (Arbutus arizonica), Arizona rosewood (Vaquelina californica), and coral-bean (Erythrina flabeliformis) [45,55].

Related categories for Species: Quercus arizonica | Arizona White Oak

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