Kharp Vegetation and Soil Transects

• Main Authors: Howard Epstein, Gerald Frost
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2014
• Subjects: EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > PLANT CHARACTERISTICS; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL HORIZONS/PROFILE; EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > FROZEN GROUND > ACTIVE LAYER; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > SHRUBLAND/SCRUB; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE > LANDSCAPE PATTERNS; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > FROZEN GROUND > ACTIVE LAYER; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY DYNAMICS > PLANT SUCCESSION; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS > ANGIOSPERMS (FLOWERING PLANTS) > DICOTS; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > ORGANIC MATTER; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > FROZEN GROUND > PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > ALPINE/TUNDRA; IN SITU/LABORATORY INSTRUMENTS > PROBES > SOIL DEPTH PROBE; FIELD SURVEY; TRANSECT; POINT; biota; Arctic; Kharp; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2701Q

Transects for vegetation and soils in different stages of shrub expansion near Kharp, Russia - data were collected in 2011. Depth of organic layer, mineral soil layer, and depth to rock/ice were taken at uniform distances along the transects. Also, positions of frost circles and individual alder plants were mapped along all of the transects.