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Tsuga heterophylla - Picea sitchensis / Vaccinium alaskaense Forest Alliance \| NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Tsuga heterophylla - Picea sitchensis / Vaccinium alaskaense Forest Alliance Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019 Description: This alliance consists of tall conifer rainforests dominated by <i>Tsuga heterophylla</i> and/or <i>Picea sitchensis</i>. The understory can be dominated by <i>Vaccinium alaskaense</i>, which is an indicator of hypermaritime - maritime climate and nitrogen poor soils. This alliance occurs in Alaska and the northernmost coast of British Columbia. Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:38821-{0EE9C8DB-BCE2-438C-BF82-9E712B26BD7E} Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
	Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization) Perspective from: 18-Dec-2014 to: ongoing
	status: accepted Community's Parent: Alaskan Maritime Western Hemlock - Sitka Spruce Rainforest Group This Community's Level: Alliance This Community's Children: Show/Hide Picea sitchensis / Bryophyte Forest Picea sitchensis / Dryopteris campyloptera Forest Picea sitchensis / Empetrum nigrum Forest Picea sitchensis - Tsuga heterophylla - Thuja plicata / Gaultheria shallon Forest Picea sitchensis - Tsuga heterophylla / Vaccinium (alaskaense, ovalifolium) Forest Picea sitchensis / Vaccinium ovalifolium / Athyrium filix-femina Forest Picea sitchensis / Vaccinium ovalifolium / Dryopteris expansa Forest Pinus contorta - (Callitropsis nootkatensis) / Gaultheria shallon Woodland Pseudotsuga menziesii - Tsuga heterophylla / Vaccinium alaskaense / Xerophyllum tenax Forest Tsuga heterophylla / Moss Forest Tsuga heterophylla - (Pseudotsuga menziesii) / Vaccinium alaskaense / Cornus unalaschkensis Forest Tsuga heterophylla - (Pseudotsuga menziesii) / Vaccinium alaskaense - Mahonia nervosa - (Gaultheria shallon) Forest Tsuga heterophylla - (Pseudotsuga menziesii) / Vaccinium alaskaense / Polystichum munitum Forest Tsuga heterophylla / Vaccinium (alaskaense, ovalifolium) / Dryopteris expansa Forest Tsuga heterophylla / Vaccinium (alaskaense, ovalifolium) Forest	Names: UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.899659 NatureServe Explorer Code: A3601 Translated: Western Hemlock - Sitka Spruce / Alaska Blueberry Forest Alliance Common: Western Hemlock - Sitka Spruce / Alaska Blueberry Forest Scientific: Tsuga heterophylla - Picea sitchensis / Vaccinium alaskaense Forest Alliance