Imnavait Creek Permanent Vegetation Plots

Walker DA, Lederer ND, and Walker MD. 1987. Permanent vegetation plots: Site factors, soil physical and chemical properties and plant species cover. Department of Energy R4D Program, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

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Table 2. Summary of areas sampled in 1984 and 1985

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Microsite	Plots	No. of plots
Water tracks	SW-2*, SW-4a, SW-5, SW-7, SW-11*, SW-34, SW-49,	7
Margins of water tracks	SW-4b, SW-10,	2
Hill slopes between water tracks	SW-1, SW-3, SW-8*, SW-12, SW-13, SW-17, SW-45, SW-48, SW-50, SW-61, SW-62,	11
Hill slopes with stone stripes, non-frost-scar areas	SW-26, SW-29a, SW-30a, SW-32a*, SW-44a,	5
Frost-scars on stone stripes	SW-29b, SW-30b, SW-32b*, SW-44b, SW-58b,	5
Wet frost scars	SW-69, SW-70, SW-71,	3
Hill slopes, areas between stone stripes	SW-27, SW-31, SW-46,	3
Wet hill slopes with solifluction features, tops of solifluction hummocks	SW-6*, SW-35a, SW-36a,	3
Wet hill slopes with solifluction features, areas between hummocks	SW-35b, SW-36b,	2
Wet meadow with strangmoor, areas between hummocks	SW-18, SW-19*, SW-20, SW-21a, SW-22a*, SW-25b,	6
Wet meadow with strangmoor, hummocks	SW-21b, SW-22b, SW-25a,	3
Palsas	SW-24*, SW-67,	2
Dry rocky till deposits	SW-9, SW-28, SW-38, SW-39, SW-43,	5
Dry sandstone outcrops	SW-33*, SW-42*, SW-52, SW-53, SW-54, SW-58a,	6
Snowbeds	SW-40, SW-41, SW-51, SW-55, SW-56, SW-57, SW-59, SW-60, SW-72, SW-73,	10
Stream channel	SW-16*, SW-23,	2
Creek margin	SW-14, SW-15, SW-47, SW-68,	4
Boulderfield	SW-63, SW-64,	2
Pond	SW-37, SW-65, SW-66,	3
* Plots with soil descriptions