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DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE

SPECIES: Salix alaxensis | Alaska Willow
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Alaska willow occurs throughout Alaska but is absent from most of the Alleutian Islands, some Bearing Sea islands, and southeastern Alaska south of Glacier Bay [3]. It does not occur in the contiguous United States. It is distributed throughout northwestern Canada from the northwest side of Hudson Bay west to the northern Yukon Territory and south to central British Columbia [6,24]. ECOSYSTEMS : FRES11 Spruce - fir FRES23 Fir - spruce FRES44 Alpine STATES : AK AB BC NT PQ YT ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : DENA LACL WRST YUCH GLBA BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : NO-ENTRY KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : K015 Western spruce - fir forest K052 Alpine meadows and barren SAF COVER TYPES : 201 White spruce 202 White spruce - paper birch 203 Balsam poplar 204 Black spruce 206 Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir 251 White spruce - aspen SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : NO-ENTRY HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : Alaska willow dominates early seral willow communities along the banks of rivers and streams. These short-lived communities are common and widespread throughout Alaska [17,37]. Published classifications describing Alaska willow community types are presented below: Area Classification Authority AK general veg. cts Viereck & Dyrness 1980 nw AK general veg. cts Hanson 1953

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