Login | Datasets | Logout
 

View Community Concepts - Detail

A.1116 | EcoArt 2002
  click to update datacart
Name: A.1116
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: This alliance includes alpine dwarf-shrublands generally characterized by ~Vaccinium uliginosum$. Typically they occur above timberline on exposed, windswept mountain summits, ridges, and bedrock-dominated tablelands. They are usually part of a mosaic of communities associated with these alpine areas and remain saturated for much of the growing season by atmospheric moisture. Other species associated with this alliance include ~Ledum groenlandicum, Betula nana (= Betula glandulosa), Empetrum nigrum, Rhododendron lapponicum, Salix uva-ursi$, and the herbs ~Juncus trifidus, Carex bigelowii, Sibbaldiopsis tridentata (= Potentilla tridentata)$, and ~Minuartia groenlandica$. The communities are variously referred to as `alpine ridge community' or `alpine shrublands.' Bliss (1963) provides descriptions of vegetation of this alliance occurring in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. These communities are restricted to alpine areas in Maine, New York, Vermont and New Hampshire. This alliance likely occurs in Canada, and may share floristic affinities with alpine alliances of Europe [see Bliss (1963) for discussion]. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.889.A1116
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: 17-Mar-2005
     
  • status: accepted
  • Community's Parent: IV.B.2.N.b
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: VACCINIUM ULIGINOSUM DWARF-SHRUBLAND ALLIANCE
  Code: A.1116
  Common: Bog Blueberry Dwarf-shrubland Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Vaccinium uliginosum Dwarf-shrubland Alliance