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DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE

SPECIES: Juniperus monosperma | Oneseed Juniper
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Oneseed juniper occurs from central Colorado, southern Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico to western Texas and southward into northern Mexico [47,48,75]. This species along with true pinyon (Pinus edulis) is the dominant tree on 60 million acres (24,281,238 ha) of the Southwest [15]. The variety gracilis is restricted to parts of Mexico [81]. ECOSYSTEMS : FRES21 Ponderosa pine FRES28 Western hardwoods FRES29 Sagebrush FRES32 Texas savanna FRES34 Chaparral - mountain shrub FRES35 Pinyon - juniper STATES : AZ CO KS NV NM OK TX MEXICO ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : BAND BIBE CACA CHCU CHIR CORO FOBO GRCA GUMO LAME LAMR MOCA ORPI PEFO WACA WUPA BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 7 Lower Basin and Range 11 Southern Rocky Mountains 12 Colorado Plateau 13 Rocky Mountains Piedmont KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : K011 Western ponderosa pine K018 Pine - Douglas-fir forest K019 Arizona pine forest K023 Juniper - pinyon woodland K031 Oak - juniper woodlands K037 Mountain mahogany - oak scrub K038 Great Basin sagebrush K055 Sagebrush steppe SAF COVER TYPES : 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 : Oneseed juniper is an indicator in a number of pinyon-juniper shrubland and desert grassland classification systems. This species frequently occurs as a codominant with ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), pinyon, or Utah juniper (Juniperus osteosperma) in woodland habitat or community types [23,24,44]. Published classifications listing oneseed juniper as an indicator are listed below. Forest vegetatoin of the White River National Forest in western Colorado: a habitat type classification [31]. Phyto-edaphic communities of the Upper Rio Puerco Watershed, New Mexico [23]. Plant associations of Region Two [44]. Preliminary habitat types of a semiarid grassland [24].

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