Component Projects-Alaska Arctic Tundra Vegetation Map

Alaska Arctic Tundra Vegetation Map

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Vegetation Units

W3.3 Wet acidic complex with low-shrub tundra (Y-K Delta)

Wet sedge communities (comm. 57) in complex with shrub thickets (comm. 70) along rivers. Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Subzone E.

Plant Communities:

Community 57

Sites F1,H2,M2B (Talbot 1983); Map Unit 61 - lowland wet sedge meadow (Jorgenson 2000) ; Map Unit W2e,W3e (Tande and Jennings 1986); Map Units 5,18,22 (Talbot et al. 1985) (Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta).


Sedge: Carex aquatilis, Eriophorum angustifolium spp., Carex rostrata;
Forb: Comarum palustre, Menyanthes trifoliata;
Moss: Sphagnum spp.

Community 70

Map unit W2e (Tande and Jennings 1986); Site G5, 9, 12, 14; MM6, 005, V3 (Talbot 1983) (Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta).


Tall shrub: Salix arbusculoides, S. alaxensis, Alnus viridis ssp. fruticosa;
Low shrub: Salix pulchra;
Grass: Calamagrostis canadensis;
Moss: Climacium dendroides