Boreal Loamy Escarpments

Description

Associated soils are considered excessively drained and plants growing on these escarpments likely experience drought stress. The steep and dry slopes associated with this ecological site are likely prone to fire and this disturbance may result in significant slope erosion.

This report provides baseline data for this provisional ecological site concept. 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 or state 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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