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
5
m
Shrub Cover
70
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Oxbow of Oksrukuyik Creek, left bank, north of road, located 200 m upstream of field relevé number 27 (inoxbow). This conspicuouslow willow community is restricted 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 originatingin the gentle topographyof the foothills, but does not occur in the Brooks Range. Character species include Salix planifolia ssp. pulchra, Valerianacapitata, 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 theauthor's relevé locationdescription and map. Entered by L. Druckenmiller and imported to TV by A. Breen, December 2014.