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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 <i>Chara</i> spp., and sometimes also a very sparse growth of <i>Utricularia</i> spp. and/or <i>Eleocharis</i> 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.36416.CEGL004390
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 17-Nov-2014 to: 01-May-2019
     
  • status: accepted
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Names:   Translated: Algal Periphyton Nonvascular Vegetation
  Scientific: Algal Periphyton Nonvascular Vegetation
  Code: CEGL004390
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