Boreal Scrub Loamy Frozen Drainages

Description

The reference state has one associated plant community, which is largely controlled through water table influences and flooding. Fire is thought to occur in these shrubby drainageways as charcoal was found in soil pits. However, plant communities related to post-fire succession were not documented.

This report provides baseline vegetation inventory data for the ecological site. More data collection is needed to provide further information about existing plant communities and the disturbance regimes that would result in transitions from one community to another. The common and scientific plant names are from the USDA PLANTS database. All communities in this report are characterized using the Alaska Vegetation Classification (Viereck et al. 1992).

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