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Alaska Arctic Tundra Vegetation Map

Philip Smith Mountains, Brooks Range, Alaska

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Nonacidic mountain complex, Philip Smith Mountains, Brooks Range, Alaska. (Photo: D.A. Walker.)

Vegetation Units

B4e.1 Nonacidic mountain complexes (Brooks Range)

Prostrate dwarf-shrub, sedge communities (comm. 72) in complex with snowbeds (comm. 79, 80), talus slopes and meadow communities, on dry limestone slopes. Brooks Range, Subzone E.

Plant Communities:

Community 72:

Caricetum scirpoideo-rupestris, Assoc.30, limestone slopes (Cooper 1986) (Arrigetch Mtns.).

Community 79:

Dryas integrifolia-Cassiope tetragona comm., early-melting nonacidic snow beds (Walker et al. 1994) (Toolik Lake).

Community 80:

Salix rotundifolia-Saxifraga nivalis comm., late-melting snow beds (Walker et al. 1989) (Toolik Lake).

Alaska Geobotany Center - Institute of Arctic Biology - University of Alaska Fairbanks
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Last modified: May 9, 2008