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DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE

SPECIES: Shepherdia canadensis | Russet Buffaloberry
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Russet buffaloberry is found from Nova Scotia, southwest across Maine to western New York and northern Ohio, west to the Black Hills of South Dakota and Alaska, avoiding most of the Great Basin. From Alaska it follows the Rocky Mountains south to Arizona and New Mexico and extends east across northern Canada to Newfoundland. The northern limits are within the Arctic Circle [6,35,37,50,52,57]. ECOSYSTEMS : FRES10 White - red - jack pine FRES11 Spruce - fir FRES15 Oak - hickory FRES17 Elm - ash - cottonwood FRES19 Aspen - birch FRES20 Douglas-fir FRES21 Ponderosa pine FRES23 Fir - spruce FRES25 Larch FRES26 Lodgepole pine FRES28 Western hardwoods FRES29 Sagebrush FRES34 Chaparral - mountain shrub FRES35 Pinyon - juniper FRES38 Plains grasslands FRES44 Alpine STATES : AK AZ CA CO ID ME MA MI MN MT NV NH NM NY OH OR PA SD UT VT WA WI WY AB BC MB NB NF NT NS ON PQ SK YT ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : APIS BIHO BICA BRCA CEBR CODA CUVA DENA FOBU GLBA GLAC GRCA GRTE ISRO JECA LACL MORU NOCA OLYM ROMO SAJH SLBE TICA VOYA WICA WRST YELL YUCH BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 2 Cascade Mountains 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 KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : K002 Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest K008 Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest K010 Ponderosa shrub forest K011 Western ponderosa forest K012 Douglas-fir forest K014 Grand fir - Douglas-fir forest K015 Western spruce - fir forest K016 Eastern ponderosa forest K017 Black Hills pine forest K018 Pine - Douglas-fir forest K019 Arizona pine forest K020 Spruce - fir - Douglas-fir forest K021 Southwestern spruce - fir forest K023 Juniper - pinyon woodland K025 Alder - ash forest K037 Mountain mahogany - oak scrub K038 Great Basin sagebrush K052 Alpine meadows and barren K055 Sagebrush steppe K056 Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe K063 Foothills prairie K064 Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass K066 Wheatgrass - needlegrass K081 Oak savanna K093 Great Lakes spruce - fir forest K095 Great Lakes pine forest K096 Northeastern spruce - fir forest K097 Southeastern spruce - fir forest K098 Northern floodplain forest K107 Northern hardwoods - fir forest K108 Northern hardwoods - spruce forest SAF COVER TYPES : 1 Jack pine 5 Balsam fir 15 Red pine 16 Aspen 22 White pine - hemlock 32 Red spruce 33 Red spruce - balsam fir 34 Red spruce - Fraser fir 35 Paper birch - red spruce - balsam fir 39 Black ash - American elm - red maple 42 Bur oak 107 White spruce 201 White spruce 206 Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir 208 Whitebark pine 210 Interior Douglas-fir 211 White fir 212 Western larch 216 Blue spruce 217 Aspen 218 Lodgepole pine 219 Limber pine 221 Red alder 230 Douglas-fir - western hemlock 236 bur oak 237 Interior ponderosa pine 238 Western juniper 239 Pinyon - juniper 251 White spruce - aspen SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : NO-ENTRY HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : Russet buffaloberry occurs in the understory of plant communities. Dominant overstory species vary by geographic location and include: subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) and ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) in Montana [37]; spruce (Picea spp.) and fir (Abies spp.) in the northern and far northern Rocky Mountains [8]; subalpine fir, white spruce (P. glauca), Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), and quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) in southern British Columbia [54]; white spruce, lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta), and quaking aspen in Alberta [29,37]; white spruce in the Yukon Territory [37]; quaking aspen in interior Alaska [37,57]; and old-growth lodgepole pine with a mixture of Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii) and subalpine fir in Colorado [1]. Russet buffaloberry occurs as a dominant or subdominant in the following habitat type (hts) and community type (cts) classification systems: Area Classification Authority CO: Arapaho and forest hts Hess and Alexander 1986 Roosevelt NF White River and grassland, shrubland, Hess and Wasser 1982 Arapaho NF and forest hts Rout NF forest hts Hoffman and Alexander 1980 MT forest hts Pfister, Kovalchick, Arno, and Presby 1977 WY: Bighorn Mts. forest hts Hoffman and Alexander 1976 Wind River Mts. forest hts Reed 1976 Intermountain Region aspen cts Mueggler 1988

Related categories for Species: Shepherdia canadensis | Russet Buffaloberry

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