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Black greasewood or four-winged saltbush may grow around the perimeter in the transition to the salt shrub community, where they often stabilize areas of low sand dunes. However, areas around streams where plant life is abundant constitute a riparian area. The willow has a spreading root network that allows it to reach all around for water and it also helps streams by slowing erosion. During dry periods salt encrustation and wind erosion occur. Light-colored soils with high salt and alkali content occur and are dry for extended periods. Soils are not arable and there is very limited grazing potential. Some mountain ranges in the Great Basin desert are high enough to have an alpine community; a community of low growing plants above the treeline. The basins in Nevada, in contrast to those in Utah, are more constricted in area and are more influenced by nearby mountain ranges with extensive carbonate rock exposures, which provide water by percolation through the limestone substrate to surface as valley springs.
The taller ranges of the Great Basin desert have a montane community. These characteristics have led this zone to be named the “pygmy forest” by many scientists. Other shrubs commonly found in the sagebrush zone are rabbitbrush, bitterbrush, snowberry, and Mormon tea (ephedra). Treeline is generally found above 10,000 feet (3,000 m) in the Great Basin desert, moving downslope with higher latitudes. The elevational range of this zone varies, but it is usually found between 6,000 and 8,000 feet (1,800 and 2,400 m), with lower limits determined by lack of moisture and the upper limits determined by temperature. The pinyon-juniper community consists of short evergreen trees that rarely grow over 20 feet in height. The pinyon-juniper community is adjacent and above the sagebrush zone. The lower end of this zone is dominated by juniper; the middle is a combination of both species, and the upper end is dominated by pinyon.
This zone of dense vegetation, made possible by thermal inversions and increased precipitation, is important to a wide variety of isolated animals that rely on this vegetation interface for survival (for example, Eutamias palmeri). The saltbush vegetation common to this ecoregion has a higher tolerance for extremes in temperature, aridity, and salinity than big sagebrush, which dominates ecoregion 13c at somewhat higher elevation. Vegetation is mostly absent, although scattered salt-tolerant plants, such as pickleweed, iodinebush, black greasewood, and inland saltgrass occur. Black and Reunited. SB Nation. The nearly level and often barren Lahontan and Tonopah playas contain mudflats, alkali flats, and intermittent saline lakes, such as the Black Rock Desert, Carson Sink, and Sarcobatus Flat. Due to the great distances created by basins between these small forest habitats, various rock substrates, and local climates, montane forests are tremendously varied across the desert. The low-elevation ecoregions lie in the Great Basin shrub steppe, while the high-elevation ones lie in the Great Basin montane forests (as defined by the WWF). These basins are in, or are characteristic of, the Bonneville Basin: they are higher in elevation and colder in winter than the Lahontan salt shrub basin ecoregion to the west. The Shadscale-dominated saline basins ecoregion is arid, internally drained and gently sloping to nearly flat.