Component Projects-Alaska Arctic Tundra Vegetation Map

Alaska Arctic Tundra Vegetation Map

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Vegetation Units

B4d.1 Nonacidic mountain complexes (Seward Peninsula)

Prostrate dwarf-shrub, forb, lichen communities (comm. 26) in complex with snowbeds (comm. 30, 31), talus slopes and meadow communities, on dry limestone slopes. York Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Subzone D.

Plant Communities:

Community 26:

(dry limestone slopes, York Mtns., Seward Peninsula).

no data - probably similar to Subzone E, community 73, this table.


Prostrate dwarf shrub,
forb,
lichen

Community 30:

Stand Type U6 ; Stand type Cassiope tetragona-Dryas integrifolia, early melting nonacidic snowbeds on pingos (Walker 1990) (Prudhoe Bay).


Hemiprostrate dwarf shrub: Cassiope tetragona;
Prostrate dwarf shrub: Dryas integrifolia, Salix reticulata,
Sedge: Carex scirpoidea;
Forb: Pedicularis capitata, Bistorta vivipara, Silene acaulis, Papaver macounii spp. discolor;
Moss: Ditrichum flexicaule, Sanionia uncinata, Tomentypnum nitens;
Lichen: Cetraria cucullata, Masonhalea richardsonii, Cetraria nivalis, Peltigera canina

Community 31:

Stand Type U7 (Walker 1985) ; Facies Salix rotundifolia-Eriophorum triste, late-melting nonacidic snowbeds (Walker 1990) (Prudhoe Bay).


Prostrate dwarf shrub: Salix rotundifolia;
Sedge: Carex aquatilis, Eriophorum angustifolium ssp. triste;
Horsetail: Equisetum scirpoides, Equisetum variegatum;
Moss: Distichium capillaceum, Ditrichum flexicaule