Botanical Survey of Agguttinni Territorial Park, Baffin Island, Nunavut ...

• Main Authors: Gillespie, Lynn, Doubt, Jennifer, Levin, Geoff, McMullin, R. Troy, Sokoloff, Paul
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Cryospheric Information Network 2023
• Subjects: Baffin Bay; Baffin Island; Baffin; Barnes Ice Cap; Clyde River; Nunavut; Qikiqtaaluk
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.21963/13298; https://www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch?doi_id=13298

Staff from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) conducted a botanical inventory of Agguttinni Territorial Park (TP) on Baffin Island between July 22 and August 22, 2021. Knowledge of the flora of east-central Baffin Island was previously limited and based primarily on work done by the Baffin Island Expedition in 1950. The scientists on that expedition collected plants and lichens from very little of the area now included in the Park. CMN’s work is the first comprehensive floristic study of Agguttinni TP. The CMN staff documented and made collections of all vascular plants encountered within the park and made preliminary collections of algae, bryophytes, and lichens. Over 1000 collections of vascular plants, lichens, bryophytes and algae were made in the Park. A set including all the collections is archived at the National Herbarium of Canada at the CMN and a second set was provided to Nunavut Parks and Special Places. The CMN staff also located 158 vascular plant, lichen, and bryophyte specimens previously ... : This is the specimen dataset for a botanical inventory of Agguttinni Territorial Park (TP), located east of Kanngiqtugaapik [Clyde River] on the east-central coast of Baffin Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut. Agguttinni TP is the largest territorial park in Nunavut, covering an area of about 1,646 km2, and stretching from Baffin Bay southwest to the Barnes Ice Cap. The park includes some of the most spectacular scenery in Canada, with ice-capped mountains and very long, deep fiords, and is known as an ecotourism and rock climbing destination. Its diverse topography results in the park having large microclimatic variation, many different habitats, and a correspondingly diverse flora and vegetation. The vascular plant flora of east-central Baffin Island has been little explored or documented. Most of our knowledge of this flora comes from plant and lichen collections made during the 1950 Baffin Island Expedition, which until now was the only botanical study focused in the region. Comprehensive ...