Plant phenology and performance in the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) plots at Utqiaġvik and Atqasuk, Alaska ...
Arctic ecosystems are changing in response to arctic warming, which is proceeding more than twice as fast as the global average. The International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) was established in the early 1990s to understand the effects of warming and environmental variability on tundra vegetation prope...
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NSF Arctic Data Center
2022
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a2xs5jj3m https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A2XS5JJ3M |
| Summary: | Arctic ecosystems are changing in response to arctic warming, which is proceeding more than twice as fast as the global average. The International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) was established in the early 1990s to understand the effects of warming and environmental variability on tundra vegetation properties and ecosystem function. The ITEX program has been extremely valuable for detection of changes in tundra plant and ecosystem responses to experimental warming and to background climate change across sites that span the major ecosystems of the Arctic. These files contain data representing the periodic plant measures of all species within each plot in a text comma delimited format. The data presented are phenological development (date of leaf bud burst, inflorescence emergence, flower bud, flower opening, flower withering, seed development, seed dispersal, and senescence), seasonal growth (length of leaf, and length of inflorescence), seasonal flowering (number of inflorescences in flower within a plot), ... |
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