{"id":399,"date":"2018-06-04T21:29:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T21:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/introtoflora.community.uaf.edu\/?page_id=399"},"modified":"2018-06-04T21:29:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T21:29:15","slug":"virtual-biome-floodplain-thickets","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/virtual-biome-floodplain-thickets\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Biome: Floodplain Thickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This 360 \u00ba virtual biome tour is taken along the banks of the Tanana river as it passes Fairbanks, Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>[dimage attachment_id=&#8221;375&#8243; control=&#8221;true&#8221; auto-rotate=&#8221;false&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Floodplain thickets<\/strong> occur along the floodplains of rivers throughout Alaska, but the species composition differs along the rivers of the southern coastal areas to the broad, braided rivers north of the Brooks Range. \u00a0 Floodplain thickets form on newly exposed alluvial deposits that are periodically flooded, and develop quickly. The dominant shrubs of this biome are willows (<em>Salix<\/em> ssp.) and occasionally alders (<em>Alnus<\/em> ssp.), and additional species of shrubs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[iframe src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1MzNQaDAcujUH9cH7WZJi735zUVgvOK1X&#8221; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;500&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 360 \u00ba virtual biome tour is taken along the banks of the Tanana river as it passes Fairbanks, Alaska. [dimage attachment_id=&#8221;375&#8243; control=&#8221;true&#8221; auto-rotate=&#8221;false&#8221;] &nbsp; Floodplain thickets occur along the floodplains of rivers throughout Alaska, but the species composition differs along the rivers of the southern coastal areas to the broad, braided rivers north of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":416,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-399","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}