Relevé. Not a repeat sample. Environmental data from Dataset Author. 2014. Personal Communication Data not published, or published in a summary table. Data obtained directly from the author..
Plot Quality Fields:
Floristic Quality
Highest
Bryophyte Quality
Highest
Lichen Quality
Highest
Overall Plot Vegetation Fields:
Nonvascular Height
30
m
Shrub Cover
90
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Happy Valley Creek, left bank, 300 m downstream of field relevé number 34. This conspicuous low willow community is restricted in its distribution to humidand acid banks of uplandtundra streams and creeks of the Arctic Foothillszone (roughly between 400 and 800 m). It occupiesthe immediate margins ofsmaller tundra streams originating in the gentletopography of the foothills, but does not occur in the Brooks Range. Character species include Salix planifolia ssp. pulchra, Valeriana capitata, Polemonium acutiflorum, Aconitum delphinifolium ssp. delphinifolium, Anemone richardsonii, Saxifraga nelsoniana ssp. nelsoniana,Climacium dendroides, Luzula rufescens. Environmental data are primarily from author with the remainder from Schickhoff et al. (2002) Tables 8 and 10. Google Earth latitude/longitude data are estimates made by L. Druckenmiller from the author's relevé location description and map. Entered by L. Druckenmiller and imported to TV by A. Breen, December 2014.
