Rail road adjacent to this community may concentrate river flow and increase flood energy in this occurrence. Across the river it is roadless. Adjacent communities include Justicia beds, and open herb community (see HAFE.33).;Substrate is close to horizontal bedrock with channels formed in lower fractures. Microtopography in plot varies + or - 1 meter, with some mud deposition in low points and rainwater accumulations on top of rocks in depressions. Many of the largest trees are dead and others are flood battered. Slightly more flooded position grades to herb community with Catalpa. Platanus is found in the canopy outside this plot.
Representativeness
Bedrock channel shelf on edge of large, shallow river. Plot represents a woodland physiognomy of this small patch bedrock river scour community. See plot HAFE.33 for adjacent community lacking tree cover.