Tundra Disturbance Studies, I: Long-term Effects of Vehicles on Species Richness and Biomass

• Published in: Environmental Conservation
• Main Author: Forbes, Bruce C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1992
• Subjects: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis; Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law; Nature and Landscape Conservation; Pollution; Water Science and Technology; Arctic; Baffin Island; Devon Island; Baffin; Tundra
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0376892900030241; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0376892900030241

This paper describes up to two decades of unassisted plant recovery from uncontrolled tracked-vehicle disturbance within tundra meadows on two physiographically distinct high-arctic coastal lowlands. Data are presented which emphasize the status of species-richness and above-ground vascular biomass....