Vegetation Zones in the Bonneville Basin
Document Type
Contribution to Book
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Geology of Northwest Utah, Southern Idaho and Northeast Nevada
Publisher
Utah Geological Association
Publication Date
1984
First Page
261
Last Page
268
Abstract
For the purpose of vegetation classification, the Intermountain region has been variously defined as comprising a number of phytogeographic units (Cronquist et al., 1972). Of these, the Bonneville basin forms the largest floristic section in the Intermountain region (Holmgren, 1972). The Bonneville basin floristic section includes mountain ranges peripheral to the lake bed and covers 38,500 mi2 of land surface. At its highest level, Lake Bonneville covered 19,940 mi2 and was the largest of the Pleistocene lakes in the Great Basin. Even today, ...
Recommended Citation
Shultz, Leila M. and Shultz, J. S., "Vegetation Zones in the Bonneville Basin" (1984). Wildland Resources Faculty Publications. Paper 1654.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/wild_facpub/1654
