Mixed-Conifer Habitat

San Pedro Watershed, Southeast AZ

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 Mixed conifer habitat covers more than 600,000 ha in the American Southwest. Spanning from Canada into southern Colorado, New Mexico, the White Mountains and Sierra Madre in Arizona, and through the Guadalupe range in Texas(Brown 1982). This habitat, an intermingling of warm conifer and cooler boreal spruce-fir, is typically found between 2,450 and 2,900 m in elevation (Brown 1982). Fairly dense stands of mixed conifer shelter a large amount of litter, which prevents large amounts of undergrowth from accumulating.

Climate

Wildlife and Habitat Needs

Dominant Land Uses

Sources

Barbour, M.G., J.H. Burk, and W.D. Pitts. Terrestrial Plant Ecology. CA: Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc., 1987.

Brown, David E., ed. "Cold Temperate Forests and Woodlands." Desert Plants Vol. 4. AZ: University of Arizona, 1982.

Espenshade, Edward B, ed. Goode’s World Atlas, 19^th ed.. U.S.A.: Rand McNally & Co., 1990.

Nebel, Bernard J. and Richard T. Wright. Environmental Science, 6^th ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1998. Foldout p. 42.

Payne, Neil F. and Fred C. Bryant. Techniques for Wildlife Habitat Management of Uplands. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1994.