Pumice Plateau Wet Basins (Lodgepole Pine - Douglas Spirea)

Description

The Reference Community is an open, uneven age stand dominated by lodgepole pine and represented by community 1.3. A moist, cold forested community, this site occurs across the landscape as a mosaic of plant community phases characterized by variation in forest structural stage (tree age, density and cover) and plant community composition. Historically, many moist lodgepole forests would have cycled through a dense stand initiation phase (1.1) to a young forest stage (1.2) to a mature forest phase (1.3). These pathways are defined by a disturbance regime characterized by self-thinning and disease and insect outbreaks which allows the canopy to open over time and mature lodgepole to develop in the overstory, eventually resembling the reference community 1.3

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