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Name:   Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC) Interagency Guidebook Reference Conditions. Persistent Shrub South - PSHS(PSHS)

Date Published:  8/30/2005

Document Type:  report

Brief Description:  The Persistent Shrub South PNV encompasses several different plant communities on a variety of sties; the common element is that the shrub communities are persistent over time and do not appear to be a sere of another PNV.

Complete Description:  The Persistent Shrub South PNV encompasses several different plant communities on a variety of sties; the common element is that the shrub communities are persistent over time and do not appear to be a sere of another PNV. The Persistent Shrub South PNV occurs on a variety of sites ranging from peat deposits in maritime climates, topogenous bogs, blanket bogs, wet stream bottoms, lowland depressions, marshy stream banks, poorly drained forest openings (Viereck et al 1992), and active avalanche shoots. A peat layer may be absent, thin or relatively thick (1-2 m). Permafrost is generally absent, although has been reported at a depth of 60 cm on the Bering Sea side of the Alaska Peninsula (Racine 1978). Slowly moving, standing water may be present on some sites (e.g, shrub swamp sites).

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