From: Fire and Climate Suitability for Woody Vegetation Communities in the South Central United States
 | Area (km2) | ||||
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Environmental site potential name | Community | OK | NM | TX | Total |
Western Great Plains mesquite woodland and shrubland | mesquite | 5 045 | 7 734 | 77 441 | 90 219 |
Western Great Plains shortgrass prairie | grassland | 8 042 | 40 253 | 39 836 | 88 132 |
Apacherian Chihuahuan mesquite upland scrub | mesquite | 0 | 24 186 | 37 971 | 62 156 |
Western Great Plains sandhill steppe | grassland | 9 593 | 11 665 | 35 752 | 57 010 |
Crosstimbers oak forest and woodland | oak | 32 441 | 0 | 20 207 | 52 647 |
Southeastern Great Plains tallgrass prairie | grassland | 45 251 | 0 | 6 504 | 51 755 |
Tamaulipan mixed deciduous thorn scrub | mesquite | 0 | 0 | 47 708 | 47 708 |
Western Great Plains floodplain systems | floodplain | 17 731 | 3 081 | 26 477 | 47 289 |
Chihuahuan creosotebush desert scrub | desert | 0 | 19 438 | 25 617 | 45 055 |
Chihuahuan mixed desert and thorn scrub | desert | 0 | 16 056 | 27 841 | 43 897 |
Edwards Plateau limestone savanna and woodland | oak* | 16 | 0 | 42 589 | 42 606 |
Colorado Plateau pinyon-juniper woodland | pinyon-juniper | 0 | 38 926 | 0 | 38 926 |
Gulf and Atlantic coastal plain floodplain systems | floodplain | 1 314 | 0 | 3 3613 | 34 926 |
Southern blackland tallgrass prairie | grassland | 381 | 0 | 32 330 | 32 711 |
Central mixed grass prairie | grassland | 16 058 | 2 211 | 14 168 | 32 438 |
East central Texas plains post oak savanna and woodland | oak | 40 | 0 | 28 523 | 28 563 |
Southern Rocky Mountain pinyon-juniper woodland | pinyon-juniper | 178 | 27 242 | 3 | 27 423 |
Tamaulipan mesquite upland scrub | mesquite | 0 | 0 | 4 835 | 4835 |
Colorado Plateau pinyon-juniper shrubland | pinyon-juniper | 0 | 365 | 0 | 365 |
Proportion of study area | Â | Â | Â | Â | 0.30 |