Subarctic Sedge Peat Plain Depressions

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Constancy and canopy cover of plants in community 1.1.

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Constancy and canopy cover of plants in community 1.3.

Description

The reference state supports three community phases, which are grouped by the structure and dominance of the vegetation (e.g., graminoids, shrubs, forbs, mosses, and lichens) and by their ecological function and stability. The reference community phase is characterized by grassland consisting of hydrophilic graminoids and low shrubs and sphagnum mosses (Sphagnum spp.). The presence of the plant communities is dictated temporally and spatially by the influences of frost heave and ponding. No alternate states have been observed.

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1.1. Sedges-cottongrasses/dwarf birch-bog rosemary-sweetgale/sphagnum moss mixed grassland

1.2. Black crowberry-marsh Labrador tea-dwarf birch-bog blueberry/lichen scrubland

1.3. Sedges-cottongrasses/dwarf birch-bog rosemary/sphagnum moss grassland

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Subarctic Sedge Peat Plain Depressions

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