Seeing the forest below the trees: occurrences of shrubs in the Pacific Northwest

Jacob L. Strunk; Connie Harrington; Leslie C. Brodie; Janet S. Prevéy

doi:10.2737/PNW-GTR-980

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Seeing the forest below the trees: occurrences of shrubs in the Pacific Northwest

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Jacob L. Strunk, Connie Harrington, Leslie C. Brodie, Janet S. Prevéy

Year:

2020

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Pacific Northwest Research Station

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2737/PNW-GTR-980

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-980. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 87 p.

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Abstract

Shrubs are an important component of terrestrial plant communities in both forested and nonforested ecosystems, but relatively little information is available on their distributions. This project provides mapped occurrences for 78 native shrub species found in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and western Montana) as derived from two large regional databases: the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis database of vegetation collected as part of a nationwide forest inventory and the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria online database (http://www.pnwherbaria.org) of species locations from forested and nonforested habitats. Background information on the project and maps of locations by species and data source are included.

Keywords

Shrubs, location, map, Pacific Northwest, western Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington

Citation

Strunk, Jacob L.; Harrington, Constance A.; Brodie, Leslie C.; Prevéy, Janet S. 2020. Seeing the forest below the trees: occurrences of shrubs in the Pacific Northwest. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-980. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 87 p.