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1038

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Typical area of community 1.1.

Constancy and canopy cover of plants in community 1.1.

Typical area of community 1.2.

Constancy and canopy cover of plants in community 1.2.

Typical area of community 1.3.

Constancy and canopy cover of plants in community 1.3.

Description

The reference state supports three community phases, which are grouped by the structure and dominance of the vegetation (e.g., trees, shrubs, graminoids, and forbs) and by their ecological function and stability. The presence of these communities is temporally dictated by seepage associated with the linear to concave areas. The reference community phase is characterized by a mixed forest that has an understory of dominantly hydrophilic shrubs and forbs. No alternate states were observed.

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1.1. White spruce-paper birch/willow-sweetgale/bluejoint grass/field horsetail/moss forest

1.2. Tealeaf willow-Sitka alder/bluejoint grass/water horsetail-woodland horsetail scrubland

1.3. Common ladyfern-common cowparsnip/red elderberry/moss meadow

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