Central Seward Peninsula Deciduous Tall Shrub Map (1950-2018) and Suitable Habitat Model

• Main Authors: Aiden Schore, Mark Lara
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2023
• Subjects: Alaska; Arctic; shrub; alder; shrub expansion; Seward; willow; birch; tundra; permafrost; Seward Peninsula; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A28911S58

Tall deciduous shrubs are critically important to carbon and nutrient cycling in high-latitude ecosystems. As Arctic regions warm, shrubs expand heterogeneously across their ranges, including within unburned terrain experiencing isometric gradients of warming. To constrain the effects of widespread...