Vegetation, soil and site characteristics of samples taken along the Yamal Transet in 2007-2008 ...

• Main Authors: Walker, Donald A, Epstein, Howard E, Leibman, Marina O, Moskalenko, Nataliya G, Orekhov, Pavel, Kuss, Patrick, Matyshak, George V, Kaarlejärvi, Elina, Forbes, Bruce C, Barbour, E M, Gobroski, K
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2009
• Subjects: International Polar Year 2007-2008 IPY; International Polar Year; IPY; Kharasavey; taiga; Tundra; Yamal Peninsula
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.842707; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.842707

The overarching goal of the Yamal portion of the Greening of the Arctic project is to examine how the terrain and anthropogenic factors of reindeer herding and resource development combined with the climate variations on the Yamal Peninsula affect the spatial and temporal patterns of vegetation change and how these changes are in turn affecting traditional herding of the indigenous people of the region. The purpose of the expeditions was to collect groundobservations in support of remote sensing studies at four locations along a transect that traverses all the major bioclimate subzones of the Yamal Peninsula. This data report is a summary of information collected during the 2007 and 2008 expeditions. It includes all the information from the 2008 data report (Walker et al. 2008) plus new information collected at Kharasavey in Aug 2008. The locations included in this report are Nadym (northern taiga subzone), Laborovaya (southern tundra = subzone E of the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map (CAVM), Vaskiny Dachi ... : This research was one component of the Greening of the Arctic (GOA) project of the International Polar Year (IPY) and is funded by NASA's Land-Cover Land-Use Change (LCLUC) program (Grant No. NNG6GE00A). Data extracted in the frame of a joint ICSTI/PANGAEA IPY effort, see http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.150150 ...