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New Mexico Forests

New Mexico Forests. VEGETATION TYPES OF NEW MEXICO (1880). Fig. 2.1 in Dick-Peddie, W.A. 1993. New Mexico Vegetation. VEGETATION TYPES OF NEW MEXICO (18,000 Years Ago). Fig. 2.4 in Dick-Peddie, W.A. 1993. New Mexico Vegetation. VEGETATION TYPES OF NEW MEXICO (100 MillionYears Ago).

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New Mexico Forests

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  1. New Mexico Forests

  2. VEGETATION TYPES OF NEW MEXICO (1880) Fig. 2.1 in Dick-Peddie, W.A. 1993. New Mexico Vegetation.

  3. VEGETATION TYPES OF NEW MEXICO (18,000 Years Ago) Fig. 2.4 in Dick-Peddie, W.A. 1993. New Mexico Vegetation.

  4. VEGETATION TYPES OF NEW MEXICO (100 MillionYears Ago)

  5. BROAD GEOLOGIC TIME SCALES

  6. PALEOZOIC ERA (550 – 250 MYA)

  7. MESOZOIC ERA (250 – 50 MYA)

  8. EARLY CRETACEOUS

  9. LATE CRETACEOUS

  10. LATE CRETACEOUS

  11. CENOZOIC ERA (50 MYA - Present) Quaternary Period: Tertiary Period:

  12. EARLY TERTIARY (Continent Wide Moderate-Warm Climates)

  13. EARLY TERTIARY GEOFLORAS

  14. EARLY TERTIARY: Arcto-Tertiary Geoflora Northern Western Eastern

  15. EARLY TERTIARY: Neotropical -Tertiary Geoflora

  16. EARLY TERTIARY: Madrean -Tertiary Geoflora

  17. EARLY TERTIARY GEOFLORAS In NEW MEXICO

  18. LATE TERTIARY (Continent-Wide Cooling)

  19. LATE TERTIARY (Continued Orogeny of the Rocky Mountains)

  20. LATE TERTIARY (Grassland Development in Rain Shadow and Eastward)

  21. LATE TERTIARY Arcto-Tertiary Geoflora: Neotropical-Tertiary Geoflora: Madro-Tertiary Geoflora:

  22. QUATERNARY (Pleistocene)

  23. QUATERNARY (Pleistocene) Pluvial Lakes: A large lake associated with excessive rain and little evapotranspiration. Poorly drained.

  24. QUATERNARY (Pleistocene) Height of the Wisconsin Glaciation (18,000 ybp)

  25. QUATERNARY (Pleistocene) Alpine Tundra *Spruce-Fir Forests

  26. Palynology: Analysis of Pollen Cores 15 Juniperus Poaceae Pinus Salix

  27. QUATERNARY (Pleistocene) (Wilcox Playa) 20,000 ybp Current

  28. QUATERNARY (Pleistocene) (Plains of San Agustin) 10,000 ybp Current

  29. RECENT QUATERNARY (Holocene)

  30. RECENT QUATERNARY (Holocene) 3 8 4 7 Biogenic Deposits (Packrat Middens)

  31. RECENT QUATERNARY (Holocene) Midden: Organic Deposits of Plant Debris and Feces Cemented by “Amberat” (dried urine)

  32. RECENT QUATERNARY (Holocene) 12 13 Saguaro Cactus Seeds Pinon Seeds Mesquite Seeds 11 Packrat Midden Macrofossil Analysis

  33. RECENT QUATERNARY (late Pleistocene - Holocene) (18,000 – 3,300 ybp) Sacramento Mountains, NM Packrat Middens

  34. RECENT QUATERNARY (late Pleistocene - Holocene) 18,000 ybp 10,000 ybp 8,000 ybp Packrat Midden Analysis: Sacramento Mountains, NM (5,300 ft)

  35. RECENT QUATERNARY (late Pleistocene - Holocene) 7,300 ybp 5,500 ybp Packrat Midden Analysis: Sacramento Mountains, NM (5,300 ft)

  36. RECENT QUATERNARY (late Pleistocene - Holocene) 3,300 ybp Packrat Midden Analysis: Sacramento Mountains, NM (5,300 ft)

  37. NATURE OF PLANT SUCCESSION Frederic Clements: Communities of Plants shift their Distribution at the same Rate and Time (“Clementisian” View) Henry Gleason: Individual Plants Shift their Distribution at their OWN Rate and Time (“Gleasonian” View) 18,000 ybp 10,000 ybp

  38. Modern and Recent Extent of NM Forests Figs. 2.1, 2.4 in W.A. Dick-Peddie 1993. New Mexico Vegetation.

  39. Primary Literature Sources McClaren, M.P. and T.R. Van Devender. 1997. The Desert Grassland. University of Arizona Press. Dick-Peddie, W.A. 1993. New Mexico Vegetation. University of New Mexico Press

  40. Allred, K.W. 1996. Vegetative changes in New Mexico Rangelands. New Mexico Journal of Science 36:168-229

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  42. 13 http://www.treenm.com/images/trees/pinon_seeds.jpg 14 http://www.geo.arizona.edu/palynology/geos462/28packrats.html 15 http://www.cabq.gov/airquality/images/Juniper_001.jpg 16 http://img1.photographersdirect.com/img/11769/wm/pd802593.jpg 17 http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/hueco/images/visitor-swd-sm.jpg 18 http://flora.nhm-wien.ac.at/Bilder-G-O/Koeleria-macrantha.jpg 19 http://www.wnmu.edu/academic/nspages2/gilaflora/bouteloua_ curtipendula.jpg 20 McClaran, M.P. and T.R. Van Devender. 1995. The desert grassland. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ 21 http://www.msnucleus.org/membership/html/k-6/lc/ntenvn/2/images/owl%20 pellet.jpg

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