APPENDIX - TABLE 4 VEGETATIVE COMPOSITION AND GROUND COVER WITHIN 
THE METER SQUARE STUDY PLOTS AT STATION NO. 1 
Station #1, July 21, 1957, St. Matthew Island. 
Located approximately 4% mile south of small lake at northwest corner 
of flats northwest of Cape Upright. Cape Upright approximately 5 
miles to the southeast. Elevation 15 feet, site level. Dry lichen- 
Willow-sedge tundra. Lichens badly shattered and mixed with some de- 
tached dead moss. Lichen layer averages % inch deep and is composed 
predominately of Sphaerophorus globosus, Cetraria cuculata, Thamnolia 
vermicularis and scattered and finely broken pieces of Cladonia alpestris, 
Some frost boils present. Heavily utilized by reindeer in the winter. 
Willows and other plants in vigorous condition, 
The north and south plots, I and III, are protected from reindeer 
grazing by fencing. The east and west plots, II and IV, are unprotect- 
ed. The fence enclosure is 9 by 15 feet. The site photograph of the 
enclosure was taken 50 feet east of the enclosure from a permanent 
photo-recording stake. 
PER CENT OF TOTAL AREA 
Grid Plot NI Plot E II Plot S III Plot W IV 
Key GROUND COVER (enclosed) (unprotected) (enclosed) (unprotected) 
12 Shattered lichens 
with a few unat- 
tached dry mosses 68.5 776 79.6 76.7 
3 Salix crassijulis x | 
ovalifolia 13.7 6.6 9.7 10.6 
2 Carex nesophila 4.0 10.6 8.0 72 
1 tLuzula arcuata °7 204 1.2 1.1 
10 LL. nivalis 4 
6 fTrisetum spicatum ol 1.0 
3 Arenaria arctica 2.8 1.7 8 1.3 
ll Artemisia trifurcata ol 
8 Pedicularis sudetica ol ol el 
7? Vaccinium vitus-idea 03 o2 
9 Moss (Polytrichum 
aigineay o4 1.0 34 1.6 
4 Gravel (frost boils) 9.4 

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