"Table 2. Vegetation cover and substrate measured at Site 1 (Brown Betty, Right)." "Table 2. Vegetation cover and substrate measured at Site 1 (Brown Betty, Right)ŃContinued." "Table 2. Vegetation cover and substrate measured at Site 1 (Brown Betty, Right)ŃContinued." Center Circle Vegetation Percent Cover Downstream Circle Vegetation Percent Cover Riverward Circle Vegetation Percent Cover Dropseed (Sporobolus sp.) 0.75 None Russian thistle (Salsola sp.) 0.18 None Brome grasses (Bromus sp.) 0.13 Total 0 Unidentified annual grass 0.05 Total 0 Substrate Percent Cover Total 1.10 Substrate Percent Cover Sand 100 Sand 100 Rock 0 Substrate Percent Cover Rock 0 Leaf litter 0 Sand 90.9 Leaf litter 0 Biologic soil crust 0 Rock 9.00 Biologic soil crust 0 Leaf litter 0.10 Upstream Circle Vegetation Percent Cover Biologic soil crust 0 Netleaf hackberry (Celtis laevigata) 17.0 "Total gap length on upstream/downstream transect (out of 4,000 cm):" "3,283 cm" Snakeweed (Gutierrezzia sp.) 3.75 Inland Circle Vegetation Percent Cover "Total gap length on inland/riverward transect (out of 4,000 cm):" "3,240 cm" Broadleaf milkweed (Asclepias latifolia) 2.00 Ephedra (Ephedra sp.) 25.0 Wire lettuce (Stephanomeria pauciflora) 1.75 Brome grasses (Bromus sp.) 3.50 Summary Rice grass (Oryzopsis hymenoides) 1.75 Snakeweed (Gutierrezzia sp.) 2.75 Unidentified legume 1.00 Prince's plume (Stanleya pinnata) 1.00 "Total vegetation cover, in percent" 12.6 Unidentified annual forb 1.00 Bladderpod (Lesquerella sp.) 1.00 Russian thistle (Salsola sp.) 0.13 Prickly pear (Opuntia sp.) 0.10 "Total sand substrate, in percent" 88.4 "Total rock substrate, in percent" 10.3 Total 28.4 Total 33.4 "Total leaf litter substrate, in percent" 0.02 "Total biologic crust substrate, in percent" 1.25 Substrate Percent Cover Substrate Percent Cover Sand 87.3 Sand 64.0 "Total gap length, in percent" 81.5 Rock 12.5 Rock 30.0 Leaf litter 0 Leaf litter 0 Biologic soil crust 0.25 Biologic soil crust 6.00