Oak woodland

Examples

• Upper Midwestern United States oak woodlands dominated by white oak, burr oak, and black oak, with subdominant canopy species red oak and shagbark hickory, with a diverse understory. The community is fire-dependent, shaped by annual, low-intensity fires.
• Cork oak woodlands in the Mediterranean region.
• Blue oak woodland is found in the inner coast ranges and the Sierra Nevada foothills in California, surrounding the Central Valley. They form what some refer to as a bathtub ring. Primary species are blue oak and interior live oak, with gray pine, California buckeye, and western redbud. Blue oak woodlands cover about of the state of California, and of this area about 79%, or, shows no evidence of past cutting of trees.
• In California's mediterranean climate oak woodlands exist between 60 and 700 meters in elevation. There are three main geographic regions for oak woodlands in California. North of the Central Valley, Central Valley Foothills and Coastal Range, and South of the Central Valley. California Valley oak woodland holds valley oak, California sycamore, black walnut, California boxelder, and Fremont cottonwood. This woodland can be found between 500 and 1700 meters above sea level. The soils are deep and made from alluvium.