Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Classification
An Arctic Vegetation Classification (AVC) is needed to address issues related to rapid Arctic-wide changes to climate, land-use, and biodiversity. Location: The 7.1 million km2 Arctic tundra biome. Approach and conclusions: The purpose, scope and conceptual framework for an Arctic Vegetation Archive...
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An Arctic Vegetation Classification (AVC) is needed to address issues related to rapid Arctic-wide changes to climate, land-use, and biodiversity. Location: The 7.1 million km2 Arctic tundra biome. Approach and conclusions: The purpose, scope and conceptual framework for an Arctic Vegetation Archive (AVA) and Classification (AVC) were developed during numerous workshops starting in 1992. The AVA and AVC are modeled after the European vegetation archive (EVA) and classification (EVC). The AVA will use Turboveg for data management. The EVC will use a Braun-Blanquet (Br.-Bl.) classification approach. There are approximately 31,000 Arctic plots that could be included in the AVA. An Alaska AVA (AVA-AK, 24 datasets, 3026 plots) is a prototype for archives in other parts of the Arctic. The plan is to eventually merge data from otherregions of the Arctic into a single Turboveg v3 database. We present the pros and cons of using the Br.-Bl. classification approach compared to the EcoVeg (US) and Biogeoclimatic Ecological Classification (Canada) approaches. The main advantages are that the Br.-Bl. approach already has been widely used in all regions of the Arctic, and many described, well-accepted vegetation classes have a pan-Arctic distribution. A crosswalk comparison of Dryas octopetala communities described according to the EcoVeg and the Braun-Blanquet approaches indicates that the non-parallel hierarchies of the two approaches make crosswalks difficult above the plantcommunity level. A preliminary Arctic prodromus contains a list of typical Arctic habitat types with associated described syntaxa from Europe, Greenland, western North America, and Alaska. Numerical clustering methods are used to provide an overview of the variability of habitat types across the range of datasets and to determine their relationship to previously described Braun-Blanquet syntaxa. We emphasize the need for continued maintenance of the Pan-Arctic Species List, and additional plot data to fully sample the variability across bioclimatic subzones, phytogeographic regions, and habitats in the Arctic. This will require standardized methods of plot-data collection, inclusion of physiogonomic information in the numeric analysis approaches to create formal definitions for vegetation units, and new methods of data sharing between the AVA and national vegetation- plot databases. |
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Walker, D.A. Daniëls, Fred J.A. Matveyeva, Nadezhda V. Šibík, Jozef Walker, Marilyn D. Breen, Amy L. Druckenmiller, Lisa A. Raynolds, Martha K. Bültmann, Helga Hennekens, Stephan Buchhorn, Marcel Epstein, Howard E. Ermokhina, Ksenia Fosaa, Anna M. Hei∂marsson, Starri Heim, Birgit Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg S. Koroleva, Natalia Lévesque, Esther MacKenzie, William H. Greg, Henry R. Nilsen, Lennart Peet, Robert Razzhivin, Volodya Talbot, Stephen S. Telyatnikov, Mikhail Thannheiser, Dietbert Webber, Patrick J. Wirth, Lisa M. |
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Walker, D.A. Daniëls, Fred J.A. Matveyeva, Nadezhda V. Šibík, Jozef Walker, Marilyn D. Breen, Amy L. Druckenmiller, Lisa A. Raynolds, Martha K. Bültmann, Helga Hennekens, Stephan Buchhorn, Marcel Epstein, Howard E. Ermokhina, Ksenia Fosaa, Anna M. Hei∂marsson, Starri Heim, Birgit Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg S. Koroleva, Natalia Lévesque, Esther MacKenzie, William H. Greg, Henry R. Nilsen, Lennart Peet, Robert Razzhivin, Volodya Talbot, Stephen S. Telyatnikov, Mikhail Thannheiser, Dietbert Webber, Patrick J. Wirth, Lisa M. Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Classification |
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:46286 2023-05-15T14:27:52+02:00 Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Classification Walker, D.A. Daniëls, Fred J.A. Matveyeva, Nadezhda V. Šibík, Jozef Walker, Marilyn D. Breen, Amy L. Druckenmiller, Lisa A. Raynolds, Martha K. Bültmann, Helga Hennekens, Stephan Buchhorn, Marcel Epstein, Howard E. Ermokhina, Ksenia Fosaa, Anna M. Hei∂marsson, Starri Heim, Birgit Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg S. Koroleva, Natalia Lévesque, Esther MacKenzie, William H. Greg, Henry R. Nilsen, Lennart Peet, Robert Razzhivin, Volodya Talbot, Stephen S. Telyatnikov, Mikhail Thannheiser, Dietbert Webber, Patrick J. Wirth, Lisa M. 2017-12 https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/46286/ unknown Gebrüder Borntraeger Walker, D. , Daniëls, F. J. , Matveyeva, N. V. , Šibík, J. , Walker, M. D. , Breen, A. L. , Druckenmiller, L. A. , Raynolds, M. K. , Bültmann, H. , Hennekens, S. , Buchhorn, M. , Epstein, H. E. , Ermokhina, K. , Fosaa, A. M. , Hei∂marsson, S. , Heim, B. orcid:0000-0003-2614-9391 , Jónsdóttir, I. S. , Koroleva, N. , Lévesque, E. , MacKenzie, W. H. , Greg, H. R. , Nilsen, L. , Peet, R. , Razzhivin, V. , Talbot, S. S. , Telyatnikov, M. , Thannheiser, D. , Webber, P. J. and Wirth, L. M. (2017) Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Classification , Phytocoenologia, 0192 . doi:10.1127/phyto/2017/0192 <https://doi.org/10.1127/phyto%2F2017%2F0192> EPIC3Phytocoenologia, Gebrüder Borntraeger, 0192 Article isiRev 2017 ftawi https://doi.org/10.1127/phyto/2017/0192 2021-12-24T15:43:34Z An Arctic Vegetation Classification (AVC) is needed to address issues related to rapid Arctic-wide changes to climate, land-use, and biodiversity. Location: The 7.1 million km2 Arctic tundra biome. Approach and conclusions: The purpose, scope and conceptual framework for an Arctic Vegetation Archive (AVA) and Classification (AVC) were developed during numerous workshops starting in 1992. The AVA and AVC are modeled after the European vegetation archive (EVA) and classification (EVC). The AVA will use Turboveg for data management. The EVC will use a Braun-Blanquet (Br.-Bl.) classification approach. There are approximately 31,000 Arctic plots that could be included in the AVA. An Alaska AVA (AVA-AK, 24 datasets, 3026 plots) is a prototype for archives in other parts of the Arctic. The plan is to eventually merge data from otherregions of the Arctic into a single Turboveg v3 database. We present the pros and cons of using the Br.-Bl. classification approach compared to the EcoVeg (US) and Biogeoclimatic Ecological Classification (Canada) approaches. The main advantages are that the Br.-Bl. approach already has been widely used in all regions of the Arctic, and many described, well-accepted vegetation classes have a pan-Arctic distribution. A crosswalk comparison of Dryas octopetala communities described according to the EcoVeg and the Braun-Blanquet approaches indicates that the non-parallel hierarchies of the two approaches make crosswalks difficult above the plantcommunity level. A preliminary Arctic prodromus contains a list of typical Arctic habitat types with associated described syntaxa from Europe, Greenland, western North America, and Alaska. Numerical clustering methods are used to provide an overview of the variability of habitat types across the range of datasets and to determine their relationship to previously described Braun-Blanquet syntaxa. We emphasize the need for continued maintenance of the Pan-Arctic Species List, and additional plot data to fully sample the variability across bioclimatic subzones, phytogeographic regions, and habitats in the Arctic. This will require standardized methods of plot-data collection, inclusion of physiogonomic information in the numeric analysis approaches to create formal definitions for vegetation units, and new methods of data sharing between the AVA and national vegetation- plot databases. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Dryas octopetala Greenland Tundra Alaska Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) Arctic Canada Greenland Phytocoenologia 48 2 181 201 |