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1. General definitions\/descriptions of “Pine Barrens”
\n2. Corresponding communities in vegetation classification systems for Nova Scotia<\/p>\n

1. General definitions\/descriptions of “Pine Barrens”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Pine barrens<\/strong> are unique plant communities that occur on sandy, infertile soils with poor water-holding capacity and are characterized by low tree density with an understory of grasses, ericaceous plants, and fire-dependent species. Scattered throughout the Midwest and elsewhere in North America, these plant communities are important for recreation and cultural values, including gathering blueberries. They are also key to the health of many plant and animal species, including threatened, endangered, and sensitive species…” – Restoring Pine Barrens Habitat:Optimizing Soil Conditions with Prescribed Fire<\/a> USDA Forest Service, 2020.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
“Pine barrens<\/strong> include an assortment of pyrogenic plant communities occurring on glacial outwash or rocky outcrops scattered along the Atlantic coastal plain from New Jersey to Maine, and inward across New England, New York, Pennsylvania, and the northern Great Lakes region.” – Why Pine Barrens Restoration Should Favor Barrens Over Pine<\/a>. J.T.\u00a0 Bried et al. 2014 in Restoration Ecology<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
“Pine barrens<\/strong>, pine plains, sand plains, or pineland areas occur throughout the U.S. from Florida to Maine (see Atlantic coastal pine barrens<\/a>) as well as the Midwest, West, and Canada and parts of Eurasia. A well-known habitat to North Americans is the New Jersey Pine Barrens<\/a>. Pine barrens are generally pine forests in otherwise “barren” and agriculturally challenging areas. Such pine forests often occur on dry, acidic, infertile soils, and also include grasses, forbs, and low shrubs. The most extensive pine barrens occur in large areas of sandy glacial deposits (including outwash plains), lakebeds, and outwash terraces along rivers Botany<\/em><\/strong>: The most common trees are the jack pine, red pine, pitch pine, blackjack oak, and scrub oak; a scattering of larger oaks is not unusual. The understory includes grasses, sedges, and forbs, many of them common in dry prairies, and rare plants such as the sand-plain gerardia (Agalinis acuta). Plants of the heath family, such as blueberries and bearberry, and shrubs, such as prairie willow and hazel, are common. These species have adaptations that permit them to survive or regenerate well after fire. Fauna<\/em><\/strong>: Pine barrens support a number of rare species…”- Wikipedia: Pine barrens<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. General definitions\/descriptions of “Pine Barrens” 2. Corresponding communities in vegetation classification systems for Nova Scotia 1. General definitions\/descriptions of “Pine Barrens” “Pine barrens are unique plant communities that occur on sandy, infertile soils with poor water-holding capacity and are … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3902,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8932","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8932"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8944,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8932\/revisions\/8944"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}