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Table 16. Cover Data -Alkali Sagebrush Reference Area, Seneca II Mine, SCC, RoutL, CO - 2003 Page 4 of 4 <br />• <br />PLANT SPECIES <br />Percent Foliar Cover` <br /> <br />-Sample Number- <br />4 5 6 7 8 9 10 <br />INTRODUCED PERENNIAL GRASSES (cool) <br />Bromopsis inermis 1 P 1 P P 3 <br />Phleum pratense P P P 1 P <br />Poa pralensis ~ 1 1 <br />Thinopyrom intelmedium P <br />TOTAL INTRO. PERENNIAL GRASSES (c) 1 P 1 P P P 2 - --- 4 <br />NATIVE SHRUBS <br />Amelanchier alnitolia 1 1 2 5 P 1 P <br />Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus P P P P 1 P <br />Seriphidium arbusculum ssp. longilobum 9 22 12 17 7(1) 23 3 26 10 6 <br />Seriphidium lridentatum 4 7 1 10 <br />Symphoricaryos rotundifolius 1 2(1) P 12 1 P 1 6(1) P <br />TOTAL NATIVE SHRUBS 11 28(1) 13 19 31(1) 24 4 28 27(1) 6 <br />Standing dead 1 3 6 2 3 5 4 7 3 4 <br />Litter 10 7 14 7 6 4 12 12 20 17 <br />Bare soil 59 56 51 57 57 52 52 51 49 37 <br />Rock 3 <br />TOTALS 100 100 100 .100 100 100 100 100 100 100 <br />TOTAL VEGETATION COVER 30 34(1) 29 34 34(1) 39 32(1) 30 28(1) 39 <br />GROUND COVER(Litter+Rock+Veg+St.Dead) 41 44(1) 49 43 43(1) 48 48(1) 49 51(1) 63 <br />SPECIES DENSITY (# of speciesl100 sq.m.) 17 20 23 15 20 19 24 10 14 25 <br />(AVERAGE= 18.7 Std.Dev = 4.8) <br />`P= Present within 1 m. of either side of the cover transect, but not quantitatively <br />encountered. <br />• <br />