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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Soil Chemical Characteristics, Plot SW-2

	Horizon pH Cations Anions CA++ Mg++ K+ NO3 meq/100g µg/g meq/100g µg/g meq/100g µg/g µg/g IOe 5.6 15.98 3196 5.18 630 0.52 204 21.44 IA 4.0 4.54 908 1.42 173 0.10 41 6.12 IIOeb 4.1 6.69 1338 1.68 205 0.16 63 6.69 IIBA 4.3 1.70 341 0.48 58 0.06 24 3.14 *USDA size classes: coarse gravel: 76.1 - 12.7 mm; fine gravel 12.7 - 2.00 mm; sand: 2.00 - 0.05 mm; silt: 0.05 - 0.002 mm; clay: <0.002 mm. **In wet tussock tundra, Bw horizons based on following criteria: 1) subangular blocky structure, 2) accumulation of organic matter, 3) development of color chroma
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