A Cypress forest is a western United States plant association typically dominated by one or more
cypress species. Example species comprising the canopy include ''
Cupressus macrocarpa''. In some cases these forests have been severely damaged by goats, cattle and other grazing animals.
[M.A. Rodriguez-Malagon et al., "The Guadalupe Island Recovery Track"] While cypress species are clearly dominant within a Cypress forest, other trees such as
California Buckeye
''Aesculus californica'', commonly known as the California buckeye or California horse-chestnut, is a species of buckeye native to California and southwestern Oregon.
Description
It is a large deciduous shrub or small tree, up to tall, with ...
, ''
Aesculus californica
''Aesculus californica'', commonly known as the California buckeye or California horse-chestnut, is a species of buckeye native to California and southwestern Oregon.
Description
It is a large deciduous shrub or small tree, up to tall, w ...
'', are found in some Cypress forests.
Examples
The Guadalupe Island Cypress Forest is situated on
Guadalupe Island
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, offshore from
Baja California
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. This forest was greatly destroyed by the introduction of
grazing
In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to roam around and consume wild vegetations in order to convert the otherwise indigestible (by human gut) cellulose within grass and other ...
goat
The goat or domestic goat (''Capra hircus'') is a domesticated species of goat-antelope typically kept as livestock. It was domesticated from the wild goat (''C. aegagrus'') of Southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the a ...
s, but
conservation biology efforts have been conducted to assist in restoring the forest.
Another example on the Pacific Coast mainland of
Northern California is the
Sargent's cypress
''Cupressus sargentii'' is a species of conifer in the family Cupressaceae known by the common name Sargent's cypress. It is endemic to California, where it is known from Mendocino County southwards to Santa Barbara County. This taxon is limit ...
Forest, located in coastal
Marin County,
California
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.
[USGS Bolinas Quadrangle]
See also
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Pygmy forest
In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short. The term pygmyism is used to describe the phenotype of endemic short stature (as opposed to disproportionate dwarfism occurring in isolated cases in a p ...
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References
Marlene A. Rodriguez-Malagon, Alejandro Hinojosa Corona, Alfonso Aguirre-Munoz and Cesar Garcia Gutierrez ''The Guadalupe Island Forest Recovery Track''C.Michael Hogan (2008) ''Aesculus californica'', Globaltwitcher.com, ed. N. StrÓ§mbergSargent Forest of Marin County, CaliforniaUSGS Bolinas Quadrangle Map, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC
Forests
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