Lake Clark National Park and Preserve Vascular Plant Inventory 2001 Field Season Annual Progress Report
Lipkin R. 2002. Lake Clark National Park and Preserve Vascular Plant Inventory 2001 Field Season Annual Progress Report. Natural Resource Technical Report. NPS/AKR/SWAN/NRTR-2002/01. National Park Service, Natural Resource Stewardship and Science
As part of the Inventory and Monitoring effort of the National Park Service's Southwest Alaska Network, the Alaska Natural Heritage Program (AKNHP) conducted an inventory of the vascular plants in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. The primary goal of the inventory was to document the occurrence of 90% of the vascular plant taxa that are expected to occur in the park. Secondary goals included describing the distribution and abundance of rare taxa and other species of special concern and documenting the general distribution of vascular plants across the ecoregions of the park. We used existing collections and records to establish a list of plant species known or expected to occur in the park and we plotted the known species and collection localites on a geographic information system along with topograhic maps, park ecoregions, and aerial photography. Using this information and additional data on geology, vegetation and landforms we selected sampling sites to assure adequate representation in park ecoregions while also targetting suspected floristic hotspots. Crews of 2-4 botanists visited the sites collecting species new to the park or ecoregion or otherwise of interest for the flora of the park. Collecting was done between 5 June and 15 August 2001. A total of 712 collections were made representing approximately 375 vascular plant taxa. Of these taxa, 13 were previously unrecorded for the Park (including a collection of the mustard family genus Arabis that is possibly new to science), and approximately 70 were previously listed as Unconfirmed. Permanent herbarium collections are curated and archived at the University of Alaska Museum Herbarium, Fairbanks (ALA) with a duplicate collection at the Lake Clark National Park and Preserve Herbarium at Port Alsworth. Collection information has been databased at ALA and will be entered into the Park Service NPSpecies database. Rare plant information will be entered in the database of the Alaska Natural Heritage Program.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Lipkin, Robert
- Date of Issue
- 2002-11
- Publisher
- National Park Service, Natural Resource Stewardship and Science
- Units
- LACL , SWAN
- Keywords
- Inventory, Vascular Plants