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
4
m
Shrub Cover
70
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Lower Oksrukuyik Creek, located 200 m upstream of fieldrelevé number 24, left bank. This conspicuous lowwillow community is restricted in its distribution to humid and acid banksof upland tundra streamsand creeks of the ArcticFoothills zone (roughly between 400 and 800 m). It occupies the immediate margins of smaller tundrastreams 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, Climacium dendroides, Luzula rufescens.Environmental data are primarily from author withthe 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. Enteredby L. Druckenmiller and imported to TV by A. Breen, December 2014.