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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Environmental Information, Plot SW-21A

Date sampled:	8/5/84	Tussock Thaw Depth:
Landform:	Colluvial basin	Inter-Tussock Thaw Depth:	44 cm
Terrain Unit:	Basin colluvium	Bare Soil	10%
Slope:	0°	Rock	0%
Aspect:	0°	Soil Type	Histic Pergelic Cryaquept
Exposure (scalar)**:	1.8	Soil Moisture (scalar)**:	8.5
Surface Form:	Strangmoor or aligned hummocks in bogs	Low shrub cover:	0%
Microsite:	Inter-hummock	Dwarf shrub cover:	0.3%
Microsite Cover:	92%	Average shrub height:	2 cm
Site Moisture (scalar)**:	8.0	Tussock Graminoid Cover:	0.0%
Estimated Snow Duration (scalar)**:	4.0	Nontussock Graminoid Cover:	30.0%
Snow Depth (5/17/87)*:	53 cm	Forb Cover:	0.3%
Stability (scalar)**:	2.0	Lichen Cover:	0%
Cryoturbation:	0	Bryophyte Cover:	20%
Microrelief Height:	0 cm
*Mean of five measurements
**Scalar values (Exposure, Site Moisture, Est. Snow Duration, Stability, and Soil Moisture) are linked to Table 3. Legend for the environmental variables used in the R4D vegetation studies