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CRATER LAKE Report: Lodgepole PineHistory and Management |
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APPENDIX E (1)
Abundance and cover summaries for tree, shrub and herbaceous species in sampled communities. Numbers in parentheses represent that portion of the mean number of trees per plot that is Pinus contorta. + = less than 0.1% cover (from Zeigler, 1978).
| Community | No. Plots | Total No. Tree Species | Mean No. Tree Species Per Plot | Mean No. Trees Per Plot | Total No. Shrub Species | Mean
No. Shrub Species Per Plot | Mean Cover
of Shrub Species | Total
No. Herbaceous Species | Mean
No. Herbaceous Species Per Plot | Mean
Percent Cover of Herbaceous Species | Total No. of Species | Mean
No. of Species Per Plot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pinus contorta/Carex-Stipa | 15 | 5 | 1.8 | 234 (.96) | 2 | <.1 | + | 20 | 6 | 6 | 27 | 7.8 |
| Pinus contorta/Carex-Lupinus | 14 | 5 | .9 | 210 (.97) | 3 | 1.0 | 2 | 21 | 7 | 25 | 29 | 9.9 |
| Pinus contorta/Purshia/Stipa | 1 | 1 | 1 | 168 (1.0) | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 8 | 8 |
| Abies magnifica var. shastensis-Tsuga/Mertensiana/Carex-Lupinus | 20 | 3 | 2.7 | 295 (.52) | 3 | .04 | 1 | 30 | 7.5 | 24 | 36 | 10.6 |
| Abies lasiocarpa/Haplopappus/Aster-Elymus | 16 | 4 | 3.5 | 283 (.61) | 5 | 1.8 | 4 | 30 | 9.3 | 50 | 39 | 14.6 |
| Abies lasiocarpa/Collomia-Lathyrus | 1 | 3 | 3 | 95 (.63) | 3 | 3 | + | 22 | 22 | 92 | 30 | 28 |
| Tsuga mertensiana/Vaccinium | 6 | 4 | 3.5 | 293 (..69) | 3 | 1.7 | 13 | 12 | 4.5 | 5 | 19 | 9.7 |
| Mixed Conifer/Arctostaphylos | 5 | 5 | 3.0 | 117 (.80) | 1 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 3.2 | 5 | 13 | 7.2 |
| Mixed Conifer/Arctostaphylos-Purshia/Carex | 1 | 4 | 4 | 79 (.78) | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 21 | 12 | 12 |
| Abies concolor/Bromus carinatus-Lupinus | 2 | 3 | 2.5 | 278 (.49) | 3 | 2.5 | 11 | 17 | 12 | 47 | 23 | 17 |
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