Community Type Classification of Forest Vegetation in Young, Mixed Stands,Interior Alaska

摘要

A total of 53 upland mixed communities were sampled and classified into fivecommunity types: Populus tremuloides/Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, Populus tremuloides/Shepherdia canadensis, Betula papyrifera-Populus tremuloides/Viburnum edule, Betula papyrifera-Populus tremuloides/Alnus crispa and Picea glauca-Betula papyrifera/ Hylocomlum splendens. Community types were described by distribution and physical environment, vegetation composition, structural features, and relation to previously described vegetation units.