Vegetation associations

W. F. Mueggler

Treesearch

Vegetation associations

Informally Refereed

Authors:

W. F. Mueggler

Year:

1985

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

In: DeByle, Norbert V.; Winokur, Robert P., editors. Aspen: Ecology and management in the western United States. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM-119. Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Fort Collins, Colo. p. 45-55

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Abstract

Aspen trees grow along moist stream bottoms as well as on dry ridges and southerly exposures, on talus slopes, and on shallow to deep soils of varied origins. Quaking aspen is one of the few plant species that can grow in all mountain vegetational zones from the alpine to the basal plain (Daubenmire 1943). As a consequence, aspen dominated communities are found intermixed with such divergent vegetation as semiarid shrublands and wet sprucefir forests.

Parent Publication

Aspen: Ecology and management in the western United States

Keywords

Populus tremuloides, quaking aspen, ecology, forest management, vegetation, vegetational zones

Citation

Mueggler, W. F. 1985. Vegetation associations. In: DeByle, Norbert V.; Winokur, Robert P., editors. Aspen: Ecology and management in the western United States. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM-119. Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Fort Collins, Colo. p. 45-55