Realm: Terrestrial
Climate: Polar
Biome: Tundra
Central latitude: 73.154112
Central longitude: -79.944419
Duration: 3 years, from 2001 to 2008

452 records

23 distinct species

Across the time series Grass is the most frequently occurring species

Citation(s):

Elmendorf, S.C. (2012) Global Tundra Vegetation Change –30 years of plant abundance data from unmanipulated and experimentally-warmed plots. Available at: http://www.polardata.ca, accessed 2017. CCIN reference number 10786.Elmendorf, S.C., Henry, G.H., Hollister, R.D., Björk, R.G., Bjorkman, A.D., Callaghan, T.V., Collier, L.S., Cooper, E.J., Cornelissen, J.H. & Day, T.A. (2012a) Global assessment of experimental climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity over space and time. Ecology letters, 15, 164–175.Elmendorf, S.C., Henry, G.H., Hollister, R.D., Björk, R.G., Boulanger-Lapointe, N., Cooper, E.J., Cornelissen, J.H., Day, T.A., Dorrepaal, E. & Elumeeva, T.G. (2012b) Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming. Nature Climate Change, 2, 453–457.Elmendorf, S.C., Henry, G.H., Hollister, R.D., Fosaa, A.M., Gould, W.A., Hermanutz, L., Hofgaard, A., Jónsdóttir, I.S., Jorgenson, J.C. & Lévesque, E. (2015) Experiment, monitoring, and gradient methods used to infer climate change effects on plant communities yield consistent patterns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112, 448–452.

Methods

Vegetation cover was sampled by pointing with 70cm x 70cm quadrats, 3.Plot size: (m2)70cm x 70cm1. Pointing 2.The Abundance units: 100 hits/plot in 2001-2002 and 81 hits/plot in20083.Plot size: (m2) 2 adjacent 70cm x 70cm plots so T1 + T2 = 0,98m2, T1 alone = 0,49m24.Approx subsite area (m2) : 2 habitats (Mesic polygon +Mesic prairie)approx 1km x 1km with 4 blocks each with 3 replicat T1+T2/block.5.List missing taxa and year missing (e.g. no cryptogams sampled in 2004; no litter sampling in 2008): following groups appear to have been completely omitted in 2008