APPENDIX - TABLE 4. VEGETATIVE COMPOSITION AND GROUND COVER WITHIN 
THE METER SQUARE STUDY PLOTS AT STATION NO. e 
Station #2, August 2, 1957, St. Matthew Island, 
Located approximately 4% mile southwest of the south corner of Big Lake. 
Elevation 15 feet, site level. Dry lichen-willow-sedge tundra. Lichens 
badly shattered and mixed with some detached dead moss. Composition of 
this lichen-moss layer varies from 80% lichen - 20% moss to 55% lichen - 
45% moss and from % to 1% inch thick. Its predominant lichen species are 
Cetraria cuculata, Sphaerophorus globosus, Thamnolia vermicularis and 
Cladonia alpestris. This area is heavily utilized by reindeer in the 
Winter but condition of lichens is slightly better than at Station #1. 
The north and south plots, I and III, are protected from reindeer 
grazing by fencing. The east and west plots, II and IV, are unprotected. 
The fence enclosure is 9 by 15 feet. The site photograph of the enclo- 
sure 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) 
15 Shattered lichens | 
with some detached 
dry mosses 88.0 739 58.6 72.3 
5 Salix crassijulis x 
ovalifolia 4.1 ae 27-1 2.0 
2 Carex nesophila 6.5 15.5 13.0 24.7 
1 Luzula arcuata 04 Sar 6 ak 
6 Trisetum spicatum 25 “ el o3 
3 Arenaria arctica . ol 
8  Pedicularis sudetica oat ol 
13 Artemisia arctica var. 
beringensis ec 
10 A. trifurcata ol 02 4 
12 Cardamine umbellata el ol 
14 Polygonum viviparum ol 
11 Lycopodium selago wl an 
9 Moss (Polytrichum 
- alpinum) el ee 3 
4 Gravel (frost boils) 4 1.2 usa 
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