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Vegetation Associations In Aspen: Ecology And Management In The Western United States, Walter F. Mueggler
Vegetation Associations In Aspen: Ecology And Management In The Western United States, Walter F. Mueggler
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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
Wildlife In Aspen: Ecology And Management In The Western United States, Norbert V. Debyle
Wildlife In Aspen: Ecology And Management In The Western United States, Norbert V. Debyle
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Aspen forests provide important habitat for many species of wildlife (Gullion 1977b), especially in the West (see the appendix to this chapter). In the coniferous forests of the interior West, aspen groves may be the only source of abundant forage; in the grasslands they may be the sole source of cover. A primary value of the aspen ecosystem in the West during the past century has been production of forage for both wildlife and domestic livestock (see the FORAGE chapter).