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Site Name:
Fort Greely_unburned
City:
Delta Junction
State:
Alaska
Country:
US
Lat:
63.92
Lon:
-145.73
Mean Annual Temperature (°C)
-2.0
Mean Annual Precipitation (mm/yr):
303
Elevation (m):
455.0
Soil:
silt loam
Time Zone:
America/Anchorage
Espg:
4326
% Clay:
% Sand:
Greenhouse:
False
Som:
Notes:
The vegetation un- derstory is dominated by mosses, lichens, and the ericoid shrubs Vaccinium uliginosum, V. vitis-idaea, Ledum groenlandicum, and Empetrum nigrum, as well as the ectomycorrhizal shrub Betula glandulosa (Treseder et al., 2004). The growing season begins with bud break in mid-May and extends until leaf senescence in mid- September.; elevation queried from lat lon using R geonames::GNstrm3
Soilnotes:
Soils are well-drained with an O-horizon thickness of  9.8cm (King et al., 2002) and have a pH of 4.9 (2 : 1 DI water : soil; S. D. Allison, unpublished data). The
Record Creator:
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