Yukon River riparian.jpg

Photo By/Credit

Delia Vargas Kretsinger/USFWS

Date Shot/Created
03/31/2022
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
Pristine riparian habitats on Alaska's Yukon River. High water events deposit sediments creating new gravel bars or settling in over established bars. This substrate is ripe for invasive plant establishment. We surveyed gravel bars between Circle and Fort Yukon, Alaska for white sweetclover (Melilotus albus), which occurs upstream of the survey area.
Ecosystem
River/stream
Subject tags
Rivers and streams