Arctic Vegetation Plots in NPS Arctic Network Parks, Alaska, 2002-2008

This dataset provides environmental, soil, and vegetation data collected at selected locations in the parks and preserves of the National Park Service (NPS) Arctic Network (ARCN) between 2002 and 2008. The ARCN includes five national parks and preserves in northern Alaska encompassing 19.5 million a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: JORGENSON, M.T., WALKER, D.A., BREEN, A.L.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center 2017
Subjects:
Arctic
Cape Krusenstern
Bering Land Bridge
Alaska
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ornldaac/1542
https://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dsviewer.pl?ds_id=1542
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Summary:This dataset provides environmental, soil, and vegetation data collected at selected locations in the parks and preserves of the National Park Service (NPS) Arctic Network (ARCN) between 2002 and 2008. The ARCN includes five national parks and preserves in northern Alaska encompassing 19.5 million acres and represents some of the wildest, most undisturbed areas left on earth: The Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Kobuk Valley National Park, and the Noatak National Preserve. The sampling sites were chosen to represent the full range of vegetation in the area with replication, and for uniformity in floristic composition and environmental conditions and were positioned on transects along toposequences within major physiographic units (riverine, lacustrine, lowland, upland, subalpine and alpine). Specific attributes include dominant vegetation, species, and cover, soil chemistry, physical characteristics, moisture, and organic matter, as well as site disturbance from various sources.

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