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Pinus contorta - Picea mariana / Vaccinium vitis-idaea / Pleurozium schreberi Forest | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Pinus contorta - Picea mariana / Vaccinium vitis-idaea / Pleurozium schreberi Forest Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019 Description: This matrix or large-patch forest community is widespread in northeastern British Columbia, western Alberta, and southwestern Yukon. It occurs on a wide variety of soils and parent materials where moisture levels are mesic to submesic (occasionally hygric) and nutrient regimes are commonly very poor to poor (sometimes mesic) in British Columbia and poor to medium in Alberta. These stands are characterized by a canopy of <i>Pinus contorta var. latifolia</i>, usually with <i>Picea mariana</i>, and occasionally with some <i>Picea glauca</i>. In the absence of fire (e.g., 100-150 years) <i>Picea mariana</i> may increase as a canopy dominant. The understory is usually sparse and species-poor. A sparse to moderate shrub layer is made up of <i>Ledum groenlandicum</i>, sometimes together with regenerating <i>Picea mariana</i> or <i>Alnus viridis</i>. A dense cover of mosses is dominated by <i>Pleurozium schreberi</i> with <i>Hylocomium splendens</i> and <i>Ptilium crista-castrensis</i>. Commonly, there is moderate cover of <i>Cornus canadensis</i> and <i>Vaccinium vitis-idaea</i> with lesser amounts of <i>Linnaea borealis</i> and <i>Peltigera</i> species.  Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:31638-{D16F5EC0-2509-42D2-A2D4-469CA0C96693} Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
	Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization) Perspective from: 09-Oct-2009 to: ongoing
	status: accepted Community's Parent: Pinus contorta Rocky Mountain Forest Alliance This Community's Level: Association This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.742103 NatureServe Explorer   Code: CEGL002731   Translated: Lodgepole Pine - Black Spruce / Lingonberry / Schreber's Big Red-stem Moss Forest   Scientific: Pinus contorta - Picea mariana / Vaccinium vitis-idaea / Pleurozium schreberi Forest (convergence) and Synonyms: (similar) Pinus contorta - Picea mariana / Vaccinium vitis-idaea / Pleurozium schreberi Forest (similar) Pinus contorta - (Picea mariana) / Vaccinium vitis-idaea / Hylocomium splendens - Pleurozium schreberi Forest