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Algal periphyton Nonvascular Vegetation | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Algal periphyton Nonvascular Vegetation Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro... Description: Large areas dominated by algae in southern Florida and the West Indies. This community is a seasonally flooded wetland over oolitic limestone, which develops an oozy marl surface which has an algal periphyton (100% cover) with embedded and emergent Chara spp., and sometimes also a very sparse growth of Utricularia spp. and/or Eleocharis spp. Vascular plants are absent apparently because of extremely harsh chemistry (physiologically it is probably very difficult for a plant to access any cation other than Ca2+, which swamps out all other cations), and competition with the dominant algae. Individual occurrences can cover hundreds or thousands of acres, and on North Andros Island in the Bahamas this community probably makes up about 100 square miles out of the total 1000-square-mile island.  Accession Code: VB.CC.19772.ALGALPERIPHYTON Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
	Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization) Perspective from: 01-Feb-1996 to: 17-Nov-2014
	status: accepted Community's Parent: Algal periphyton Seasonally Flooded Nonvascular Alliance This Community's Level: Association This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   Translated: Algal Periphyton Nonvascular Vegetation   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.684784 NatureServe Explorer   Code: CEGL004390   Scientific: Algal periphyton Nonvascular Vegetation (convergence) and Synonyms: (undetermined) Algal Periphyton Nonvascular Vegetation