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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 III
Average percent canopy coverage and percent frequency of plant taxa
on slope areas of the bunchgrass-shrub type (*, less than 1 percent).
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West1 | SE1 |
I | II |
III | IV |
V | VI |
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No. Plots: | 34 |
34 | 34 |
34 | 34 |
25 | 25 |
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Bluebunch wheatgrass | 18/94 | 40/94 | 15/67 | 16/88 | 17/50 | 29/92 | 30/68 |
Bluegrass | 6/56 | 15/88 | 5/44 | 1/12 | 1/6 | 18/88 | 14/32 |
Needle-and-thread | 1/18 | 1/9 |
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| 6/28 |
Ricegrass | 6/47 | * | 9/47 | 3/35 | 4/18 |
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Junegrass |
| 2/38 | * |
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| 1/8 | 9/32 |
Slender wheatgrass |
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| 6/24 |
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| 6/32 |
Brome | * |
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| 2/3 |
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Idaho fescue |
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| 13/32 |
Sedge |
| 2/15 |
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Grass Totals | 31 | 60 | 35 | 22 | 22 | 48 | 82 |
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Astragalus | 4/38 |
| 2/21 | 1/3 |
| 10/80 | 1/8 |
Bastard toadflax | 1/15 | * |
| * | 2/29 |
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Fleabane | * | 7/53 |
| 1/9 |
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Aster |
| 3/35 | 4/38 | 1/9 | 5/38 |
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Elk Thistle |
| 2/3 |
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Selaginella |
| 3/9 |
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Hackelia |
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| 2/15 |
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Lupine |
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| 3/6 |
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| 7/32 |
Balsamroot |
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| 2/6 | 2/9 |
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Buckwheat |
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| 1/9 | 1/12 |
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Flax |
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| 5/15 |
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Forb Totals | 5 | 15 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 10 | 8 |
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Phlox | 6/74 | 5/65 | 6/50 |
| 1/6 | 6/84 |
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Leptodactylon | * | 2/32 |
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Douglas rabbitbrush | 1/15 | 3/29 | 2/32 |
| 1/3 | 23/92 |
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Rubber rabbitbrush | 2/9 | 4/12 | 6/44 |
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Fringed sagewort | * | 1/15 | 3/15 |
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Big sagebrush |
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| 3/9 |
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| 22/64 |
Serviceberry |
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| 1/6 | 5/35 |
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Horsebrush |
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| 2/9 |
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Bitterbrush |
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| 17/36 |
Snowberry |
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| 7/36 |
Shrub Totals | 9 | 15 | 17 | 4 | 10 | 29 | 46 |
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1 From Martinka (1965).
2 Plants per acre.
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