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
75
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Toolik River, south of road, left bank. This conspicuous low willow community isrestricted in its distribution to humid and acid banks of upland tundra streams 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, Polemonium acutiflorum, Aconitum delphinifolium ssp. delphinifolium, Anemone richardsonii, Saxifraga nelsoniana ssp. nelsoniana, Climaciumdendroides, Luzula rufescens. Environmental data are primarily from authorwith the remainder from Schickhoff et al. (2002) Tables 8 and 10. Google Earth latitude/longitude data are estimates made byL. Druckenmiller from the author's relevé location description and map. Entered by L. Druckenmillerand imported to TV by A.Breen, December 2014.
