Vegetation classifications for random points in the Agashashok River watershed in 1952, 1979 and 2015

• Main Authors: Patrick Sullivan, Roman Dial, Anna Terskaia
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2020
• Subjects: treeline; shrub encroachment; climate warming; Picea glauca; Arctic; Salix; Alnus; Climate change; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/urn:uuid:49688c32-2641-4f7f-b6c7-d3293ef236d0

Climate change is expected to increase woody vegetation abundance in the Arctic, yet the magnitude, spatial pattern and pathways of change remain uncertain. We compared historical orthophotos photos (1952 and 1979) with high-resolution satellite imagery (2015) to examine six decades of change in abu...