Associations between forest vegetation and the fertility of soil organic horizons in northwestern Russia

Forest Ecosystems

Table 2 The functional groups’ cover (1) and the number of species (2)

Cajander’s site type	Number of plots	Dwarf shrubs		Herbs		Grasses & sedges		Green mosses		Sphagnum mosses		Lichens
Cajander’s site type	Number of plots	1	2	1	2	1	2	1	2	1	2	1	2
Karelia, northern taiga
3	9	47.6^a	4.6	5.1	7.9	1.8	3.0	57.4	8.2	6.0	1.6	0.2	1.6
3	9	5.2^b	0.6	2.2	1.6	0.3	0.4	7.2	0.8	3.2	0.5	0.1	0.4
4	26	50.3	5.1	1.2	3.4	1.0	1.4	47.7	6.2	1.6	0.7	11.3	3.8
4	26	4.1	0.2	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.2	4.5	0.4	0.7	0.2	2.8	0.4
5	3	43.4	6.7	2.1	2.0	0.7	1.0	33.5	6.7	11.2	2.3	39.6	6.7
5	3	7.9	1.5	1.8	0.6	0.4	0.6	7.1	1.2	10.7	1.2	6.5	0.9
Karelia, middle taiga
1	2	8.8	1.5	57.3	30.5	7.3	6.0	28.8	14.5	0	0	0	1.0
1	2	8.2	0.5	8.2	2.5	4.5	1.0	2.2	3.5	0	0	0	1.0
2	6	6.0	2.2	40.9	28.5	5.6	6.7	21.5	15.3	13.4	2.2	0	0
2	6	1.6	0.2	12.3	2.6	1.6	0.8	6.9	1.9	8.7	1.1	0	0
3	16	23.6	2.3	8.1	14.9	6.1	4.5	43.9	10.9	6.0	1.5	0	1.1
3	16	2.2	0.1	1.6	1.5	1.6	0.4	5.3	0.7	2.2	0.4	0	0.3
4	13	34.7	4.3	1.7	5.0	2.5	2.3	63.9	9.1	2.8	1.3	7.4	5.2
4	13	3.7	0.5	0.4	0.7	0.8	0.3	7.2	0.7	1.7	0.3	3.5	1.0
Karelian Isthmus, middle taiga
2	12	14.2	2.0	28.3	23.7	5.1	6.8	10.2	8.9	9.1	1.3	0	0
2	12	2.7	0.0	4.9	3.0	1.7	0.6	4.0	0.6	4.2	0.5	0	0
3	23	21.7	2.9	9.5	10.9	7.5	5.1	29.5	7.2	18.5	1.1	0	0.4
3	23	2.8	0.2	2.3	1.4	1.6	0.5	5.1	0.4	6.8	0.2	0	0.2
4	6	16.0	4.5	4.3	4.7	0.4	2.5	73.0	5.3	0	0	0.6	2.3
4	6	4.7	0.6	2.2	1.6	0.4	1.1	11.2	0.6	0	0	0.2	0.5