Point-count cover of Carex ramenskii and Salix ovalifolia under warmed and grazed conditions. Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, 2015-2016

This dataset contains cover change data on a sedge and a shrub species in coastal region of the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta. Cover was measured as part of a factorial warming and herbivory experiment with a response surface vegetation removal design. These data were collected as a complementary study to a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lindsay Carlson, Karen Beard
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Arctic Data Center 2017
Subjects:
herbivory
warming
neighbor removal
response surface
shrub expansion
Carex ramenskii
Salix ovalifolia
Anchorage
Yukon
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.18739/A2C53F216
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Summary:This dataset contains cover change data on a sedge and a shrub species in coastal region of the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta. Cover was measured as part of a factorial warming and herbivory experiment with a response surface vegetation removal design. These data were collected as a complementary study to an NSF funded project (PI: Beard) to determine the effects of a phenological mismatch between goose grazing and the initiation of the growing season. The study is a collaboration of researchers at University of Alaska Anchorage and Utah State University. The goal of this complementary project was to determine the effects of warming on a brackish moist meadow vegetation community, determine whether goose herbivory can mediate community shifts caused by warming, and quantify the importance of direct versus indirect effects of warming.

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