Eastern Mojave Vegetation
Tom Schweich
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Eastern Mojave Vegetation
| A Bibliography on Blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima) |
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Tom Schweich |
Topics in this Article: Introduction Literature Review Field Work and Methods Taxonomy, Distribution and Growth Habits Anatomy and Physiology Relationships to Soils and Other Plants Life History Succession Insects, Diseases, and Other Pests Discussion Summary Literature Cited |
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Introduction | |
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Literature Review | |
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Field Work and Methods | |
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Taxonomy, Distribution and Growth Habits | |
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Taxonomy | |
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DistributionDetails about the distribution of Blackbrush can be found in "Distribution of Blackbrush." | |
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In the northern Mojave Desert, the species is widespread between 3,600 and 6,000 feet elevation, and often dominant in almost pure stands (DeDecker, 1984) | |
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California | |
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On the Volcanic Tableland, north of Bishop, California | |
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In the pass between Cima Dome and Kessler Peak. | |
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Colorado | |
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Nevada | |
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Near Whitney Pass on the south side of the Virgin Mountains. | |
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Utah | |
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Growth Habits | |
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Apex Mine.
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Anatomy and Physiology | |
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Roots and Other Belowground Parts | |
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Stems | |
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Leaves | |
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Flowers | |
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Relationships to Soils and Other Plants | |
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Relation to Soils | |
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Plant Associates | |
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Allelopathy | |
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Competition | |
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Life History | |
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Germination | |
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Seedling Establishment | |
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Early Growth Stage | |
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Establishment | |
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Dormancy | |
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Flowering | |
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A study by Pendleton and Pendleton (1998) shows Blackbrush to be wind-pollinated (anemophilous). They studied pollination ecology of the species at three different locations 1) Arches National Park, 2) Toquerville exit (exit 27) W of Interstate 13, and 3) Beaver Dam slope, 1.9 km W of U. S. Hwy. 91. The four treatments applied were 1) self pollination using paper bags to exclude both wind and animal pollinators, 2) wind pollination using 1-mm mesh bridal veil netting, 3) open pollination, and 4) controlled cross pollination within paper bags. | |
| In no instance did exclusion of animal and insect pollinators result in fruit set, indicating that blackbrush is wind pollinated. | ||
| Fruit set on self-pollinated branches was substantially reduced in all three populations, demonstrating that blackbrush is essentially self-incompatible. | ||
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Since the ancestral pollination system in Rosaceae is entemophily, Blackbrush would have switched to wind pollination from insect pollination. This shift is most likely to occur in species that occupy open and often arid habitats where pollen movement is not restricted by close proximity of other species or frequent rain. Another requirement for effective pollination is juxtaposition of a sufficient number of individuals such as occurs in monospecific stands. Such a shift would not be unexpected in blackbrush, which often occurs as a near monoculture in such open arid habitats. | |
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Seed | |
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Collecting Seed | |
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Vegetation Reproduction | |
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Life Span | |
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Succession | |
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Grazing Effects | |
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Insects, Diseases, and Other Pests | |
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Discussion | |
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Adaptation | |
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The Species In An Ecosystem | |
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Summary | |
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Literature CitedA list of all literature cited by this web site can be found in the Bibliography. | |
| Anonymous. n.d.. Provisional Vascular Plant List for Arches National Park. Link to external document. | ||
| Beatley, J. C. 1974. Phenological events and their environmental triggers in Mojave Desert ecosystems. Ecology. 55: 856-863. | ||
| Beatley, Janice C. 1975. Climates and vegetation pattern across the Mojave / Great Basin desert transition of southern Nevada. American Midland Naturalist. 93(1):53-70. {TAS} | ||
| Beatley, J. C. 1976. Vascular plants of the Nevada Test Site and central-southern Nevada: ecological and geographical distributions. Springfield, VA: National Technical Information Service. U. S. Department of Commerce. | ||
| Bowns, J. E. 1973. An autecological study of blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima Torr.) in southwestern Utah. Unpublished dissertation. Utah State Univeristy, Logan.. | ||
| Bowns, James. E. and Neil E. West. 1975. Wildland Shrubs: Proceedings of Symposium and Workshop at the Dedication of The U. S. Forest Service Shrub Sciences Laboratory, Provo, Utah. Blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima Torr.), an important but little known major vegetation type. UCB Biosci: QK481.S82 | ||
| Bowns, J. E., and N. E. West. 1976. Blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima Torr.) in southwestern Utah rangelands. Utah Agricultural Experiment Station Research Report 27. | ||
| Callison, Jim, Jack D. Brotherson, and James E. Bowns. 1985. The effects of fire on the blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima) community of southwestern Utah. Journal of Range Management. 38(6):535-538. | ||
| Callison, James, and Jack D. Brotherson. 1985. Habitat relationships of the Blackbrush community (Coleogyne ramosissima) of southwestern Utah. Great Basin Naturalist. 45(2):321-326. | ||
| DeDecker, Mary. 1984. Flora of the northern Mojave Desert, California. Berkeley, CA: Califonia Native Plant Society.. {TAS} | ||
| Hunter, K. L., and J. R.McAuliffe. 1994. Elevational shifts of Coleogyne ramosissima in the Mojave Desert during the Little Ice Age. Quaternary Research (Orlando). 42(2):216-221. | ||
| Kituku, V. M., W. A. Laycock, J. Powell, and A. A. Beetle. 1996. Propagating bitterbrush twigs for restoring shrublands. pp. 327-328 in Roundy, Bruce A., E. Durant McArthur, Jennifer S. Haley, David K. Mann. Proceedings: wildland shrub and arid land restoration symposium. October 19-21, 1993. Las Vegas, NV. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-GTR-315. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station. 384 p. | ||
| Koehler, P. A., and R. S. Anderson. 1995. Thirty thousand years of vegetation changes in the Alabama Hills, Owens Valley, California. Quaternary Research (Orlando). 43(2):238-248. {TAS-PDF} | ||
| Korthuis, S. L. 1988. Coleogyne ramosissima. pp. in William C. Fischer, compiler. The fire effects information system (database). Missoula, MT: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station, Fire Science Laboratory. Magnetic tape reels; 9 track; 1600 bpi, ASCII with Common LISP present. | ||
| Lei, S. A. 1995. A gradient analysis of Coleogyne communities in southern Nevada. Unpublished master's thesis. University of Nevada, Las Vegas. | ||
| Lei, S. A. 1996a. A gradient analysis of the Mojave Desert woody vegetation in a southern Nevada mountain range. American Journal of Botany. 83(6 SUPPL):84. | ||
| Lei, S. A. 1996b. Environmental constraints on the distribution of Coleogyne shrublands in southern Nevada. American Journal of Botany. 83(6 SUPPL):84. | ||
| Lei, S. A. 1997. Variation in germination response to temperature and water availability in blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima) and its ecological significance. Great Basin Naturalist. 57(2):172-177. | ||
| Lei, S. A. and L. R. Walker. 1994. Environmental factors influencing the distribution of Coleogyne communities in southern Nevada. Bulletin Of The Ecological Society Of America. 75(2 Part 2):130. | ||
| Lei, S. A., and L. R. Walker. 1995. Classification and ordination of Coleogyne communities in southern Nevada. Bulletin of the Ecological Society Of America. 76(2 Suppl Pt 2):158. | ||
| Lei, S. A., and L. R. Walker. 1995. Composition and distribution of blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima) communities in southern Nevada. pp. 192-195 in Roundy, Bruce A., E. Durant McArthur, Jennifer S. Haley, David K. Mann, compilers. Proceedings: wildland shrub and arid land restoration symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-GTR-315. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station. 384 p. October 19-21, 1993. Las Vegas, NV | ||
| Lei, S A and L. R. Walker. 1997a. Classification and ordination of Coleogyne communities in southern Nevada. Great Basin Naturalist. 57(2):155-162. | ||
| Lei, S. A., and L. R. Walker. 1997b. Biotic and abiotic factors influencing the distribution of Coleogyne communities in southern Nevada. Great Basin Naturalist. 57(2):163-171. | ||
| Lin, G., S. L. Phillips, and J. R. Ehleringer, J R. 1993. Specific Variation in Short-Term Responses of Water Relations To Summer Rain Increase Among Five Desert Shrub Species of Southern Utah. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 74(2 Suppl.):331-332. | ||
| Lin, G., S. L. Phillips, and J. R. Ehleringer, J R. 1996. Monsoonal precipitation responses of shrubs in a cold desert community on the Colorado Plateau. Oecologia (Berlin). 106(1):8-17. | ||
| Meyer, S. E., and B. K. Pendelton. 1994. Factors affecting seedling recruitment success in blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima). Bulletin of the Ecological Society Of America. 75(2 Part 2):153. | ||
| Ortega-Reyes, L., and F. D. Provenza. 1993a. Amount of Experience and Age Affect the Development of Foraging Skills of Goats Browsing Blackbrush Coleogyne-Ramosissima. Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 36((2-3)):169-183. | ||
| Ortega-Reyes, L., and F. D. Provenza. 1993b. Experience with Blackbrush Affects Ingestion of Shrub Live Oak by Goats. Journal of Animal Science. 71(2):380-383. | ||
| Pendleton, B. K., and S. E. Meyer. 1994. Germination biology of Coleogyne ramosissima (Rosaceae). I. Laboratory studies. Unpublished manuscript on file at Shrub Sciences Laboratory, 735 North 500 East, Provo, UT 84606. | ||
| Pendleton, Burton K., Susan E. Meyer, and Rosemary L. Pendleton. 1996. Blackbrush biology: insights after three years of a long-term study. pp. 223-227 in Roundy, Bruce A., E. Durant McArthur, Jennifer S. Haley, David K. Mann, compilers. Proceedings: wildland shrub and arid land restoration symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-GTR-315. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station. 384 p. October 19-21, 1993. Las Vegas, NV | ||
| Pendleton, Burton K., and Rosemary L. Pendleton. 1998. Pollination biology of Coleogyne ramosissima (Rosaceae). The Southwestern Naturalist. 43(3):376-380. {TAS} | ||
| Pendleton, B. K., and R. L. Pendleton. 1996. Pollination biology of Coleogyne ramosissima (Rosaceae). American Journal of Botany. 83(6 Suppl.):86. {TAS} | ||
| Provenza, F. D. 1978. Getting the most out of blackbrush. Utah Science. 39: 144-146. | ||
| Provenza, Frederick D., et al. 1983. Some factors affecting twig growth in blackbrush. Journal of Range Management. 36(4):518-520. | ||
| Provenza, F. D., J. J, Lynch, E. A. Burritt, and C. B. Scott. 1994. How goats learn to distinguish between novel foods that differ in postingestive consequences. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 20(3):609-624. | ||
| Sampson, Arthur W., and Beryl A. Jespersen. 1963. California Range Brushlands and Browse Plants. 1963. {TAS} | ||
| Sandquist, D. R., W. S. F. Schuster, L. A. Donovan, S. L. Phillips, and J. R. Ehleringer, J R. 1993. Differences in Carbon Isotope Discrimination Between Seedlings and Adults of Southwestern Desert Perennial Plants. Southwestern Naturalist. 38(3):212-217. | ||
| Schuster, W. S. F., D. R. Sandquist, S. L. Phillips, and J. R. Ehleringer. 1994. High levels of genetic variation in populations of four dominant arid land plant species in Arizona. Journal Of Arid Environments. 27(2):159-167. | ||
| Smith, S. D., C. A. Herr, K. L. Leary, J. M. Piorkowski. 1995. Soil-plant water relations in a Mojave Desert mixed shrub community: A comparison of three geomorphic surfaces. Journal of Arid Environments. 29(3):339-351. | ||
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Date and time this article was prepared: 12/9/2024 7:27:39 PM |
