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Pinus contorta / Vaccinium vitis-idaea - Arctostaphylos uva-ursi / Pleurozium schreberi - (Cladonia spp.) Forest | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Pinus contorta / Vaccinium vitis-idaea - Arctostaphylos uva-ursi / Pleurozium schreberi - (Cladonia spp.) Forest
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This small-patch forest or woodland is widespread but rare to uncommon in northern British Columbia, becoming more common east into northern and west-central Alberta and north into southeastern Yukon. This community generally occurs as small patches on the driest sites of the landscape, usually developing on rocky or coarse glacio-fluvial materials, more rarely on sand dunes. It is an edaphic fire climax, maintained by these dry, nutrient poor, conditions and fairly frequent fire history. Stands are characterized by a canopy of <i>Pinus contorta var. latifolia</i> and a sparse, species-poor ground layer dominated by <i>Vaccinium vitis-idaea, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi</i>, and <i>Pleurozium schreberi</i>. The shrub layer is sparse but may include low cover of <i>Rosa acicularis</i> and <i>Shepherdia canadensis</i>. In some stands, <i>Ledum groenlandicum</i> has significant cover. Other commonly occurring ground cover species include <i>Linnaea borealis, Leymus innovatus, Cladonia</i> spp., and, more consistently, <i>Peltigera</i> spp. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:31640-{AB6CAEC5-DA23-4357-A4C6-C2BC0A108C5B}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 09-Oct-2009 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.742113 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL002733
  Translated: Lodgepole Pine / Lingonberry - Kinnikinnick / Schreber's Big Red-stem Moss - (Cup Lichen species) Forest
  Scientific: Pinus contorta / Vaccinium vitis-idaea - Arctostaphylos uva-ursi / Pleurozium schreberi - (Cladonia spp.) Forest
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(similar) Pinus contorta / Vaccinium vitis-idaea - Arctostaphylos uva-ursi / Pleurozium schreberi - (Cladina spp.) Forest
(similar) Pinus contorta / Vaccinium vitis-idaea / Pleurozium schreberi - Cladina spp. Forest