Great Basin montane forests

Great Basin montane forests

Great Basin montane forests
The Great Basin montane forests form an archipelago of "sky islands" — isolated, north-south fault-block mountain ranges rising above the sagebrush basins of Nevada, eastern California, and western Utah. Vegetation follows the elevation gradient: pinyon-juniper woodland and white fir, Douglas fir, and ponderosa pine at middle elevations give way to limber pine, subalpine fir, Engelmann spruce, and bristlecone pine near treeline, with mountain mahogany on dry south slopes and aspen groves on some peaks. The high mountains are cooler and far wetter than the surrounding desert basins, which can receive only a few inches of precipitation a year. The flagship Great Basin bristlecone pine ranks among Earth's oldest trees; fire suppression, livestock grazing, and invasive plants such as cheatgrass have altered the ecoregion.
RESOLVE 356
Nearctic
3,434 sq mi
Temperate Conifer Forests
Tipo de paisaje
Temperate Conifer Forests
Región vegetal
Nearctic
Huella de la región
3,434 sq mi
Presión sobre el hábitat
Nature Could Reach Half Protected (Dinerstein NNH 2)
Usa esto como el patrón general de plantación para la región: Temperate forests dominated by evergreen conifers, from coastal rainforests to montane pine and fir stands. Adapted to cool, moist or seasonally dry climates, they include some of the tallest and longest-lived trees on the planet. Para las decisiones de jardín, combina ese contexto con la lista de plantas de abajo y luego acota según las restricciones de luz, agua, suelo y tamaño maduro de tu sitio.

Range & origins

Ubicación de Great Basin montane forests en el mapa mundial
Marcador situado dentro del polígono RESOLVE 2017 en 37.6°N, 118.2°W.
La región a través del tiempo
Huella moderna
RESOLVE 2017 mapea 3,434 sq mi
Este límite es una huella ecológica moderna para Great Basin montane forests, no una línea permanente en el planeta. Resulta útil para el contexto actual de plantas y fauna porque sigue patrones recurrentes de vegetación, clima, relieve y perturbaciones.
Por qué aquí
Condiciones de temperate conifer forests
La región se ubica en el reino Nearctic y se clasifica como temperate conifer forests. La altitud, la humedad, el fuego, los suelos, las costas y el uso humano del suelo pueden hacer que el paisaje real sea más variado de lo que sugiere un único color en el mapa.
Presión de cambio
Nature Could Reach Half Protected
Plotwright muestra esto como la huella actual de RESOLVE. A lo largo de décadas o siglos, el calentamiento, las perturbaciones, las especies invasoras, el uso del suelo y la restauración pueden desplazar el borde vivo de una región aunque el mapa de referencia permanezca fijo.

Colecciones de plantación

Recetas de plantación terminadas donde cada miembro puede con el rango climático de esta región. La insignia de ajuste usa la planta más sensible de la colección, así que una colección resistente es un punto de partida más seguro que cualquier ejemplar destacado por sí solo.
Resistente al clima · 2 plantas
Bright shade foundation
A part-shade planting with shrub structure and low foliage contrast.
Annabelle hydrangea
Coral bells
+4
Resistente al clima · 8 plantas
Climate-resilient natives for warming zones (eastern NA)
A pollinator-supporting palette of eastern North American natives with broad hardiness ranges and wide native distributions. Built for gardeners who want a planting that can handle warming zones without giving up wildlife value.
Switchgrass
Little bluestem
Common milkweed
Black-eyed Susan
Wild bergamot
Sweet Joe-Pye weed
Cutleaf coneflower
New England aster
+2
Resistente al clima · 6 plantas
Mediterranean drought-tolerant edible
A low-water edible palette of culinary herbs + a hardy grape for hot dry sunny sites. Mediterranean-origin plants thrive on neglect; their primary failure mode is overwatering, not underwatering.
English lavender
Rosemary
Garden sage
Oregano
Common thyme
Fox grape
+5
Resistente al clima · 9 plantas
Native pollinator border (eastern US)
A continuous-bloom native pollinator strip for eastern North America. Covers spring through frost with host + nectar plants spanning monarchs, native bees, hummingbirds, and specialist Lepidoptera. Little bluestem provides the matrix grass + Hesperiidae host.
Butterfly weed
Common milkweed
Purple coneflower
Wild bergamot
Scarlet bee balm
Little bluestem
Sweet Joe-Pye weed
Swamp sunflower
Smooth blue aster
Resistente al clima · 4 plantas
Sunny pollinator border
A durable sunny border with summer bloom, seedheads, and upright winter texture.
English lavender
Purple coneflower
Black-eyed Susan
Switchgrass

Regiones de plantación similares

Explora otras regiones con un ritmo similar de veranos calurosos y secos. Sus listas de plantas pueden sugerir especies y combinaciones que vale la pena comparar.
RESOLVE 345 - Nearctic
Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests
The Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests form a transitional temperate conifer ecoregion straddling the boundary between the Rocky Mountains to the west and the Mid-Canada boreal plains to the east, lying mostly in Alberta with a portion in British Columbia. Mixed forests of lodgepole pine, quaking aspen, jack pine, and white spruce dominate, with balsam poplar, paper birch, and balsam fir also common, while wetter sites support black spruce and tamarack. The climate is subhumid and cold temperate, with short summers averaging 13-15C, cold winters from -17.5 to -10C, and annual precipitation of roughly 400-600 mm. Heavily altered by agriculture, logging, and oil and gas development, only about 1% of the ecoregion holds protected status.
Temperate Conifer Forests
Zonas 6b-7b
+5.6°F para 2070
46,764 sq mi
Nivel NNH 2
RESOLVE 346 - Nearctic
Arizona Mountains forests
The Arizona Mountains forests — the sky-island and Mogollon Rim forest belt of central and eastern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and a thin strip in adjacent Mexico. Elevation banding from desert grassland and pinyon-juniper through ponderosa pine + Gambel oak, Douglas fir + aspen + white fir at higher elevations, and isolated subalpine spruce-fir on the highest peaks (Humphreys Peak, Mt. Baldy). The 'Madrean sky islands' on the southern edge connect biotic elements of the Sierra Madre Occidental with the Southwest US.
Temperate Conifer Forests
Zonas 8a-11b
+3.7°F para 2070
42,830 sq mi
Perfil editorial
Nivel NNH 4
RESOLVE 347 - Nearctic
Atlantic coastal pine barrens
The Atlantic coastal pine barrens — the fire-dependent pitch pine + scrub oak ecosystem of the New Jersey Pinelands, Long Island Pine Barrens, Cape Cod, and smaller patches across coastal Massachusetts and adjacent Rhode Island / Connecticut / Delaware. Sandy, acidic, nutrient-poor soils plus historic frequent fire produced the open canopy and rich heath / sedge understory. The NJ Pinelands National Reserve protects the largest remnant.
Temperate Conifer Forests
Zonas 8b-11a
+5.7°F para 2070
5,517 sq mi
Perfil editorial
Nivel NNH 3
RESOLVE 348 - Nearctic
Blue Mountains forests
The Blue Mountains forests cover the elevated interior of northeastern Oregon and adjacent southeastern Washington — a Pacific-Northwest-but-not-coastal landscape of ponderosa pine, Douglas fir, grand fir, and western larch on the uplands, with sagebrush-steppe filling the lower valleys. Drier and more continental than the western Cascades; the region's plant palette is closer to the Northern Rockies' inland-PNW look than to the rainforest west of the crest.
Temperate Conifer Forests
Zonas 8b-9b
+4.4°F para 2070
27,315 sq mi
Perfil editorial
Nivel NNH 3
RESOLVE 349 - Nearctic
British Columbia coastal conifer forests
The British Columbia Coastal Conifer Forests ecoregion spans the mainland Coast Mountains of British Columbia, just inland of the outer Pacific coast, across the Pacific and Kitimat Ranges to elevations near 4,000 meters. Conifers dominate, especially Douglas-fir and western hemlock communities alongside western red cedar, amabilis fir, and Alaskan yellow cedar in subalpine zones. The wet maritime climate brings annual precipitation from about 1,500 mm at lower elevations to 3,400 mm higher up, falling mostly in winter, with drier summers. Lowland forests are notably rich in epiphytes, fungi, amphibians, and invertebrates, and the Great Bear Rainforest here holds ancient stands representing a quarter of the world's coastal temperate rainforest.
Temperate Conifer Forests
Zonas 7a-11a
+3.6°F para 2070
42,676 sq mi
Nivel NNH 2
RESOLVE 350 - Nearctic
Central British Columbia Mountain forests
The Central British Columbia Mountain forests stretch northwest-to-southeast across north-central British Columbia, east of the Coast Mountains, spanning ranges such as the Omineca, Skeena, Stikine, and Hart at elevations from 700 to 2,400 metres. Low slopes carry western red cedar, western hemlock, lodgepole pine, aspen, and spruce, grading into subalpine Engelmann spruce and fir and, on the highest ground, alpine tundra. The climate is subarctic, with a mean annual temperature near 2°C, summers around 12°C, and cold winters. The grizzly bear is the flagship species, but only about 6% of the ecoregion is protected, leaving it exposed to intensive logging.
Temperate Conifer Forests
Zonas 7a-11a
+4.2°F para 2070
53,825 sq mi
Nivel NNH 2

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