(Table 6) Reproductive success as Timson's index germination of arctic tundra plants in control and warming plots, Alexandra Fiord

• Main Authors: Klady, Rebecca A, Henry, Gregory HR, Lemay, Valerie
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2011
• Subjects: Vegetation type; Experimental treatment; Index; Salix arctica, standard deviation; Festuca brachyphylla, standard deviation; Eriophorum angustifolium, standard deviation; Sampling by hand; Open-top chamber OTC warming experiment, in situ; Alexandra Fiord; Arctic; Eriophorum; Festuca brachyphylla; Tundra
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.812089; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.812089

Germination rate was calculated using a modified Timson's Index (TIm):SumG/t. This value was calculated by first obtaining average percent germination per 3-day interval, which was the maximum frequency that germinants were counted and removed from Petri plates. These averages were then summed as a progressive total of daily cumulative germination (SG) over the number of measurement increments in the trial period, which in this study was 12 (i.e. eleven 3-day increments and one 2-day increment). The resultant value was then divided by the total number of days in the germination trial period (t). n = 37 plots per treatment/site.