Replication Data for: Changing species dominance patterns of Boreal-Arctic heathlands: evidence of biotic homogenization ...
This dataset contain coverage of vascular plants in plots from a range of sites in northern Fennoscandia. Main findings are presented in the following abstract: Heathlands are extensive systems often dominated by slow-growing and long-lived woody plants. These systems require longer-term studies to...
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.18710/yunhfp https://dataverse.no/citation?persistentId=doi:10.18710/YUNHFP |
| Summary: | This dataset contain coverage of vascular plants in plots from a range of sites in northern Fennoscandia. Main findings are presented in the following abstract: Heathlands are extensive systems often dominated by slow-growing and long-lived woody plants. These systems require longer-term studies to capture if and how they are changing over time. In 2020, we resurveyed species richness and cover of vascular plant communities in 139 heathlands along the coastline of northern Fennoscandia, first surveyed during 1965-1975. The first survey included six heathland types, each with dominance – a cover of 25% or more – of the dwarf shrubs Calluna vulgaris, Kalmia procumbens, Betula nana, Vaccinium myrtillus and Empetrum nigrum. The two latter heathland types made up 29% and 48% of all heathlands respectively. In addition to the dominant dwarf shrubs giving name to the heathland types, a few other species qualified as dominant. In the resurvey all the heathland types had Empetrum nigrum as the single dominant species ... |
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