Arctic dwarf scrub gravelly slopes

Description

Depending on dominance, the reference plant community is characterized as either crowberry dwarf shrub tundra or Cassiope dwarf shrub tundra (Viereck et al. 1992). There are two plant communities within the reference state related to fire.

All plant communities associated with the site have limited data, so the state-and-transition model is provisional.

Dominant plant species

1. black crowberry (Empetrum nigrum), shrub

2. white arctic mountain heather (Cassiope tetragona), shrub

3. alpine sweetgrass (Anthoxanthum monticola ssp. alpinum), grass

4. smallawned sedge (Carex microchaeta), grass

5. reindeer lichen (Cladina), grass

Submodel