speckled alder


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Related to speckled alder: smooth alder, Alnus rugosa
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common shrub of Canada and northeastern United States having shoots scattered with rust-colored down

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Sand dunes: At Ridges Sanctuary, average amino sugar N concentration of soil beneath speckled alder was greater than both the adjacent and Canada buffaloberry soil averages for amino sugar N concentrations (Table 2).
Soils under speckled alder at the northernmost study locations of Ridges Sanctuary and Whitefish Dunes State Park, Wisconsin exhibited the greatest increase in amino sugar N over adjacent background soils compared with all other N-fixing plants in this study.
Nitrogen fixing shrubs create soil N fertility patches in native sand dune and tallgrass-prairie communities of Central North America
Only traces of sugar maple and dogwood (mostly stems) were found in the leaf packs after 42 days and a small amount of speckled alder (5%) remained.
(1985) compared the processing of summer-fresh and autumn-abscised leaves of speckled alder (Alnus rugosa) in a northern Michigan stream.
Rapid decomposition of summer-input leaves in a northern Michigan stream
They include: a northern bayberry in Nassau County; a common juniper in Schenectady County; a black locust in Wayne County; a scarlet hawthorn and a Norway spruce in Oneida County; and a northern oak, a speckled alder, a prairie crab apple and a purple osier willow in Monroe County.
Silent giants: national and state registries honor the country's big trees
The stream's headwaters are small, surrounded by grassy banks choked with speckled alders. Downstream, the brook meanders, widening and deepening, allowing trout to hold in pools and fly fishermen to cast.
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