Boreal Woodland Gravelly Alkaline Slopes
Circle-spoke model
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Description
The reference plant community is needleleaf woodland (Viereck et al. 1992) with the dominant tree being white spruce. There are five plant communities within the reference state related to fire. While the reference plant community, community 1.3, and community 1.5 are supported with plot data, plant communities 1.2 and 1.4 have limited data and are considered provisional concepts.
Submodel
States 1, 5 and 2 (additional transitions)
1.1. white spruce / bog Labrador tea - eightpetal mountain-avens / Altai fescue - northern singlespike sedge
1.5. fireweed / Ceratodon moss - juniper polytrichum moss.
1.2. late stage of fire induced secondary succession
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