Projective cover of ground vegetation types at 32 sites in Northwestern Canada, in Summer 2022 (CA-Land_2022_NWCanada) ...

• Main Authors: Schild, Laura, Kruse, Stefan, Gloy, Josias, Haupt, Sarah, Ewald, Peter
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2023
• Subjects: boreal forest; Field observation; ground vegetation; Permafrost; Vegetation; vegetation survey; Event label; Vegetation type; Vegetation, cover; Vegetation survey; Visual estimation in exact nadir according to Li et al. 2023; CA-Land_2022_NWCanada; AWI Arctic Land Expedition; Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems @ AWI AWI_Envi; Alfred Wegener Institute; Northwest Territories; permafrost; Yukon
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.959413; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.959413

Vegetation surveys were carried out in Northwest Territories, Yukon and British Columbia in Canada. The study area is within the boreal forest biome and is partially underlain by permafrost soils. The aim was to record the projective ground vegetation in different boreal forest types studied during the CA-Land_2022_NWCanada field campaign in July and August 2022. Ground vegetation was surveyed for different vegetation types within a circular forest plot of 15m radius. Depending on the heterogeneity of the forest plot, multiple vegetation types (VA, VB, or VC) were chosen for survey. The assignment of a vegetation type is always unique to a site. Their cover on the circular forest plot was recorded in percent. In total, 46 vegetation types at 32 forest plots were assessed. All data were collected by scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) Germany, and the University of Potsdam Germany. ...