Pumice Plateau Wet Basins (Lodgepole Pine - Douglas Spirea)

Description

The Reference Community is an open, uneven age stand dominated by lodgepole pine and represented by community 1.3. A moist, cold forested community, this site occurs across the landscape as a mosaic of plant community phases characterized by variation in forest structural stage (tree age, density and cover) and plant community composition. Historically, many moist lodgepole forests would have cycled through a dense stand initiation phase (1.1) to a young forest stage (1.2) to a mature forest phase (1.3). These pathways are defined by a disturbance regime characterized by self-thinning and disease and insect outbreaks which allows the canopy to open over time and mature lodgepole to develop in the overstory, eventually resembling the reference community 1.3

Dominant plant species

1. lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta), tree

2. rose spirea (Spiraea douglasii), shrub

3. bog blueberry (Vaccinium uliginosum), shrub

Submodel