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Montane Deciduous Alluvial Flood Plain black cottonwood (paper birch)/redosier dogwood Populus balsamifera ssp. trichocarpa (Betula papyrifera)/Cornus sericea ssp. sericea
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Current ecosystem state
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Management practices/drivers
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Target ecosystem state
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Description
This represents the historic state in which there are no weedy species present at the site. The community is the same composition as currently but without any weedy species.
Submodel
State 2
Current Potential
Current Potential
Description
This represents the current reference state in which the same dominant species exist as in State 1.0 but there is a low presence of weedy species.
Submodel
Mechanism
This represents the pathway from the historic state 1.0 without any weedy species present in the vegetation community to State 2.0 in which there are very low covers of weedy species present in the vegetation community.
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