Understory vegetation cover across a post-fire tree density gradient in far northeastern Siberia, 2016-2017

• Main Author: Heather D Alexander
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2018
• Subjects: fire; tree density; Siberia; larch; Larix; Larix cajanderi; Arctostaphylos uva-ursi; Aulacomnium palustre; Betula nana; Cetraria Islandica; Cladonia cornuta; Drepanocladus uncinatus; Empetrum nigrum; Equisetum pratense; Equisetum scirpoides; Flavocetraria cucullata; Rhododendron groenlandicum; Pedicularis labradorica; Peltigera aphthosa; Peltigera neopolydactyla; Petasites frigidus; Ptilidium ciliare; Pyrola asarifolia; Rosa acicularis; Tomentypnum nitens; Vaccinium uliginosum; Vaccinium vitis-idaea; Valeriana capitata; Cherskiy
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2GM81N53

In Siberian larch forests, tree density has multiple consequences for both above- and belowground carbon (C) pools within trees and soils as stands mature, but tree density could also influence understory vegetation cover and associated C pools. The primary objective of this study was to determine how fire-driven changes in tree density affect understory vegetation as stands mature within Cajander larch dominated forests of far northeastern Siberia.