Happy Valley Permanent Vegetation Plots

Walker, D.A., Auerbach, N.A., Nettleton, T.K., Gallant, A., Murphy, S.M. 1997. Happy Valley Permanent Vegetation Plots: Site factors, physical and chemical soil properties, plant species cover, photographs, soil descriptions, and ordination. Arctic System Science Flux Study, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

Home // Preliminary vegetation classification // Vegetation communities and sites // Legend for environmental variables // Environmental data // Relevé size, percent cover // Soils data // Relevé species data //
Appendices: Field descriptions of soils // Plot and soil photos // Plot location map

General Description, Plot HV-15

Plant community:	Moist Salix lanata, Salix glauca, Arctous rubra, Abietinella abietina, low-shrub tundra
Microsite:	Bluff overlooking Sagavanirktok river, north of access road, 2 km south of camp.
Other plots with a similar microsite:
	HV-19, HV-13, HV-15,
See Table 1 for a list of all plots