Vascular flora of Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, westernmost Alaska Peninsula, Alaska
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Abstract
The vascular flora of Izembek National Wildlife Refuge (NWR), where few previous collections had been reported, was collected and recorded at sites selected to represent the totality of environmental variation. A total of 349 species (339 native and 10 introduced) was identified. To provide a comparative phytogeographic framework, we analyzed data from published reports that categorized vascular plant distribution patterns from a circumpolar, North American, and Alaskan perspective. The native flora of the Izembek NWR primarily includes species of circumpolar (38%), eastern Asian (23%), Eurasian (18%), and North American (13%) distribution. The most important longitudinal distributional classes in North America consist of transcontinental (62%) and extreme western species (31%). The annotated list of species in Izembek NWR expands the range of many species, filling a distributional gap in Hulte??n's Western Pacific Coast district. Forty notable range extensions are reported. The flora of Izembek NWR is primarily made up of boreal species and lacks many of the species considered to be Arctic. Comparison with the Raunkiaer life-form spectrum similarly points to the boreal.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Vascular flora of Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, westernmost Alaska Peninsula, Alaska |
| Series title | Rhodora |
| DOI | 10.3119/0035-4902(2006)108[249:VFOINW]2.0.CO;2 |
| Volume | 108 |
| Issue | 935 |
| Year Published | 2006 |
| Language | English |
| Contributing office(s) | Alaska Science Center |
| Description | 45 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Article |
| Larger Work Subtype | Journal Article |
| Larger Work Title | Rhodora |
| First page | 249 |
| Last page | 293 |
| Online Only (Y/N) | N |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |
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