Imnavait Creek Permanent Vegetation Plots

Walker DA, Lederer ND, and Walker MD. 1987. Permanent vegetation plots: Site factors, soil physical and chemical properties and plant species cover. Department of Energy R4D Program, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

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Soil Chemical Characteristics, Plot SW-40

soil photo
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HorizonpHCationsAnions
CA++Mg++K+NO3
meq/100gµg/gmeq/100gµg/gmeq/100gµg/gµg/g
A3.82.585150.951150.381484.33
Bw3.70.1600.0500.0300.00
*USDA size classes: coarse gravel: 76.1 - 12.7 mm; fine gravel 12.7 - 2.00 mm; sand: 2.00 - 0.05 mm; silt: 0.05 - 0.002 mm; clay: <0.002 mm.
**In wet tussock tundra, Bw horizons based on following criteria: 1) subangular blocky structure, 2) accumulation of organic matter, 3) development of color chroma
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