Realm: Terrestrial
Climate: Polar
Biome: Tundra
Central latitude: 78.953570
Central longitude: -77.141200
Duration: 2 years, from 1992 to 2009

536 records

19 distinct species

Across the time series Lichen 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 1. 1992 and 2009: direct determination of area in the field. 2. Cover in % using modified Domin-Krajina abundance scale (Lévesque 1996) 3. 1992 and 2009: 25 quadrats of respectively 0.25m2 and 0.49m2 4. Approx subsite area (m2): 50m x 50m on Granite and dolomitic substrate at 540m ASL. 5. In 1992 lichen and moss were evaluated while, in 2009, lichen was entered as crust (because often combined with algae) and moss cover was only entered when the moss was not mixed with crust.