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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Appendices: Plot and soil photos // Equivalent vegetation units // Plot location map

Plant Species Composition, Plot SW-12

	Foliose lichen: Peltigera sp. +; Peltigera aphthosa +; Forbs, Horsetails, Ferns, Clubmosses, Spikemosses: Petasites frigidus +; Pedicularis lapponica +; Bistorta vivipara +; Saxifraga nelsoniana +; Bistorta plumosa 1; Fruticose lichen: Cladonia gracilis +; Cetraria richardsonii +; Cetraria islandica +; Cladonia mitis +; Cladonia spp. +; Cladonia rangiferina +; Cladonia amaurocraea +; Dactylina arctica +; Cladonia carneola +; Cetraria cucullata +; Graminoid: Arctagrostis latifolia +; Eriophorum vaginatum 10; Carex bigelowii 30; Liverwort: Ptilidium ciliare +; Tritomaria quinquedentata +; Blepharostoma trichophyllum brevirete +; Moss: Sphagnum angustifolium +; Calliergon stramineum +; Polytrichum sp. +; Pohlia nutans +; Tomentypnum nitens +; Hypnum sp. +; Drepanocladus uncinatus +; Dicranum angustum 3; Dicranum groenlandicum 5; Polytrichum strictum 5; Sphagnum rubellum 10; Aulacomnium palustre 10; Aulacomnium turgidum 10; Hylocomium splendens 25; Sphagnum teres 35; Shrub: Cassiope tetragona tetragona 2; Rubus chamaemorus 2; Empetrum hermaphroditum 3; Vaccinium vitis-idaea minus 5; Ledum palustre decumbens 5; Salix planifolia ssp. pulchra 20; Betula nana exilis 30;