Vegetation and frost activity in an alpine fellfield on the summit of Plateau Mountain, Alberta

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Botany
• Main Authors: Bryant, J. P., Scheinberg, Eliyahu
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1970
• Subjects: Plant Science; Arctic; Canada; The ''Y''; Alectoria; Plateau Mountain; Tundra
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/b70-104; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/b70-104

An ordination of alpine fellfield vegetation of the Highwood Range of Southwestern Alberta, Canada, revealed that it varies continuously in response to frost activity gradients of two scales: (1) annual or historic congeliturbation which has produced sorted patterned ground structures similar to tho...