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
25
m
Shrub Cover
80
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Happy Valley Creek, located between field relevé numbers 34 and 73. This conspicuous low willow communityis restricted in its distribution to humid and acid banks of upland tundrastreams and creeks of the Arctic Foothills zone (roughly between 400 and 800 m). It occupies the immediate margins of smaller tundra streams originating in the gentle topography of the foothills, but does not occur in the Brooks Range. Character species include Salix planifolia ssp. pulchra, Valeriana capitata, Polemoniumacutiflorum, 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 madeby L. Druckenmiller fromthe author's relevé location description and map.Entered by L. Druckenmiller and imported to TV byA. Breen, December 2014.
