"Table 4. Vegetation cover and substrate measured at Site 3 (Rapid 5, Right, camp pod)." "Table 4. Vegetation cover and substrate measured at Site 3 (Rapid 5, Right, camp pod)ŃContinued." "Table 4. Vegetation cover and substrate measured at Site 3 (Rapid 5, Right, camp pod)ŃContinued." Center Circle Vegetation Percent Cover Downstream Circle Vegetation Percent Cover Riverward Circle Vegetation Percent Cover Tamarisk (Tamarix sp.) 18.0 Rice grass (Oryzopsis hymenoides) 3.25 Willow (Salix exigua) 0.75 Russian thistle (Salsola sp.) 2.50 Sand verbena (Abronia elliptica) 2.25 Rice grass (Oryzopsis hymenoides) 2.00 Unidentified aster/composite 2.00 Total 0.75 Sand verbena (Abronia elliptica) 1.60 Dropseed (Sporobolus sp.) 1.50 Unidentified aster/composite 0.80 Spike dropseed (Sporobolus contractus) 0.90 Brome grasses (Bromus sp.) 0.75 Russian thistle (Salsola sp.) 0.75 Needle-and-thread (Stipa comata) 0.75 Total 25.7 Brome grasses (Bromus sp.) 0.15 Substrate Percent Cover Sand 100 Substrate Percent Cover Total 11.6 Rock 0 Sand 78.0 Leaf litter 0 Rock 0 Substrate Percent Cover Biologic soil crust 0 Leaf litter 22.0 Sand 100 Biologic soil crust 0 Rock 0 Leaf litter 0 "Total gap length on upstream/downstream transect (out of 4,000 cm):" "2,934 cm" Upstream Circle Vegetation Percent Cover Biologic soil crust 0 "Total gap length on inland/riverward transect (out of 4,000 cm):" "2,636 cm" Rice grass (Oryzopsis hymenoides) 2.00 Unidentified aster/composite 1.50 Inland Circle Vegetation Percent Cover Summary Sand verbena (Abronia elliptica) 1.50 Brome grasses (Bromus sp.) 30.0 Brome grasses (Bromus sp.) 0.75 Tamarisk (Tamarix sp.) 12.0 "Total vegetation cover, in percent" 18.4 "Unidentified perennial forb, dead" 0.40 Russian thistle (Salsola sp.) 3.75 Russian thistle (Salsola sp.) 0.25 Rice grass (Oryzopsis hymenoides) 0.60 "Total sand substrate, in percent" 88.0 Unidentified perennial forb 0.25 Unidentified aster/composite 0.50 "Total rock substrate, in percent" 0 Dropseed (Sporobolus sp.) 0.25 "Total leaf litter substrate, in percent" 11.5 Total 6.15 Pale evening primrose (Oenothera pallida) 0.05 "Total biologic crust substrate, in percent" 0.55 Substrate Percent Cover Total 47.2 "Total gap length, in percent" 69.6 Sand 96.8 Rock 0 Substrate Percent Cover Leaf litter 0.50 Sand 65.0 Biologic soil crust 2.75 Rock 0 Leaf litter 35.0 Biologic soil crust 0