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Salt Desert Shrub Basins
Ecoregion
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The arid Salt Desert Shrub Basins ecoregion includes disjunct playas and isolated sand dunes. The plains, terraces, and rolling alluvial fans of Ecoregion 18e have soils that tend to be more alkaline and less permeable than soils in the Rolling Sagebrush Steppe (18a). Vegetation is a sparse cover of arid land shrubs such as shadscale, greasewood, and Gardner’s saltbush, with some areas of big sagebrush. Areas with stabilized sand dunes are dominated by alkali cordgrass, Indian ricegrass, blowout grass, alkali wildrye, and needle-and-thread. Land use is rangeland and wildlife habitat. This arid region is sensitive to grazing pressure, which may promote the invasion of weeds such as Russian thistle, cheatgrass, and the toxic halogeton.
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Plants
Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda (species)
72
Observations
JAN - DEC
Spiny Phlox
Phlox hoodii (species)
53
Observations
JAN - DEC
Stipa comata
SPECIES
50
Observations
JAN - DEC
Plains Pricklypear
Opuntia polyacantha (species),
“Panhandle Prickly-Pear”
49
Observations
JAN - DEC
Threadleaf Sedge
Carex filifolia (species)
48
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Animals
Pronghorn
Antilocapra americana (species),
“American Pronghorn”, “Mexican Pronghorn”
3
Observations
JAN - DEC
Prairie Rattlesnake
Crotalus viridis (species)
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Black-Tailed Prairie Dog
Cynomys ludovicianus (species),
“Arizona Black-Tailed Prairie Dog”, “Plains Prairie Dog”
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
White-Tailed Prairie Dog
Cynomys leucurus (species)
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Coyote
Canis latrans (species),
“Prairie Wolf”, “American Jackal”, “Brush Wolf”
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
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Birds
Common Raven
Corvus corax (species),
“Raven”, “Northern Raven”
843
Observations
JAN - DEC
House Sparrow
Passer domesticus (species)
690
Observations
JAN - DEC
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaocto (species),
“Collared Dove”
683
Observations
JAN - DEC
American Robin
Turdus migratorius (species)
672
Observations
JAN - DEC
Mourning Dove
Zenaida macroura (species),
“American Mourning Dove”, “Rain Dove”, “Carolina Pigeon”, “Carolina Turtledove”, “Zenaidura Caroliensis”, “Zenaidura Macroura Caroliensis”
614
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Insects
Cicindela formosa
SPECIES ·
“Big Sand Tiger Beetle”
12
Observations
JAN - DEC
Neominois ridingsii
SPECIES ·
“Riding's Satyr”
3
Observations
JAN - DEC
Queen
Danaus gilippus (species),
“Queen Butterfly”
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Mastor vialis
SPECIES
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Bombus huntii
SPECIES ·
“Hunt Bumble Bee”
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
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Region
49
Ecoregion
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Salt Desert Shrub Basins
Salt Desert Shrub Basins
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