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Transcription
P. DeBenedictis
1966
Habitats + Plant associations
Meade River.-1
I RIVER BARS
1. Open bar + pioneer community
2. Riparian Willow
a) Salix alexensis (River side)
b) Salix nchardsonii - glauca (inland side)
3. River bar tundra - Salix pulchra
+ inland tundra (usu. wet) types
II CUT BANK + BLUFFS
1. Bluff (top)
a) turfy - Therolon/hagotis / S. reticulata
b) sandy - Dryas / Salix glauca / Arctostaphylos
2. Shamp slope
a) wet - Oxyria digyna
b) dry - (dune type habitat) Arabis, Braya
(late)
3. Snow bed Gullets - Ranunculus pygmaeus,
Saxifraga nivalis
III DUNES (and large Blow outs)
1) Stabilized (ridge habitat) - Arenaria /
Sileue / Dryas / Kobresia
2) Semi-stabilized (with small-medium
blowouts) - Anemone drummondii /
Rumex graminifolius / Eritrichium
3 Active - Elymus / Polemonium boreale /
Silphium laciniatum / Heptesia /
Antennaria glomerata, Senecio hyperboreus