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GRTE-N-1
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Research Report GRTE-N-1
The Elk of Grand Teton and Southern Yellowstone National Parks
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APPENDIX II
Average percent canopy cover and frequency of plants and bare ground
area on a ridgetop elk concentration area and adjoining herbland slope.
(*, less than 1 percent)
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Plants |
Ridgetop
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Ecotone1
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Slope
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Exclosure | YG1 |
YG3 | YG4 |
YG5 |
Plots: | 17 |
17 | 25 |
25 | 25 |
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Idaho fescue | 13/76 | 15/53 | 11/80 | 1/28 |
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Slender wheatgrass | 4/35 | 4/35 | 13/32 | 10/72 | 22/96 |
Bluegrass | 15/76 | 19/88 | 7/84 | 2/48 | 3/28 |
Trisetum | 1/18 | 1/23 | 1/40 | 3/56 | 1/16 |
Needlegrass | 2/12 | * | * | * | * |
Oniongrass |
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| 2/12 |
| 3/40 |
Alpine timothy |
| * | 1/20 | * |
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Tufted hairgrass |
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| 3/16 |
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Mountain brome |
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| * |
| 4/36 |
Sedge |
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| 12/68 |
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Other grass |
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| 1 |
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Grass totals | 35 | 39 |
50 | 17 | 33 |
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Dandelion | 68/100 | 69/100 | 40/100 | 15/20 | 2/36 |
Cinquefoil | 17/100 | 15/94 | 39/100 | 19/80 | 10/52 |
Phlox | 5/59 | 2/35 | 15/77 | 15/96 |
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Agoseris | 3/47 | 1/24 | 2/28 | 4/52 | 3/56 |
Yarrow | 8/76 | 5/65 | 8/77 | 12/100 | 5/52 |
Lupine | 4/29 | 1/6 | 1/8 |
| 18/92 |
Fleabane | 4/29 | * | 10/56 | 3/52 | 3/44 |
Elk thistle | 2/59 |
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Parsley | 1/6 |
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Hackelia | * | 1/29 |
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| 8/48 |
Chickweed |
| 2/29 | 1/28 |
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Plantain |
| * | 4/40 |
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Buckwheat |
| * | 1/20 | 1/12 | 1/12 |
Astragalus |
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| 1/16 |
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Tall larkspur |
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| 4/16 |
Other forbs | 1 | 3 |
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Forb totals | 113 | 99 | 122 | 69 | 54 |
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Plant totals | 148 | 138 | 172 | 86 | 87 |
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Bare soil | 12 | 10 | 26 | 61 | 51 |
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1 Adjoining slope ecotone with edge of mountain meadow type.
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