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Algal Periphyton Vegetation | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Algal Periphyton Vegetation Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019 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: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:33181-{CB6DDB4A-86B3-45EE-8854-E90DD6C457C2} Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
	Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization) Perspective from: 01-Feb-1996 to: ongoing
	status: accepted Community's Parent: Atlantic & Gulf Intertidal Algal Bed Alliance This Community's Level: Association This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.684784 NatureServe Explorer   Code: CEGL004390   Translated: Algal Periphyton Vegetation   Scientific: Algal Periphyton Vegetation (convergence) and Synonyms: (similar) Algal Periphyton Nonvascular Vegetation (similar) Algal periphyton Nonvascular Vegetation (similar) CEGL004390