Arctic Vegetation Plots in Burned and Unburned Tundra, Alaska, 2011-2012

This dataset provides environmental and vegetation data collected in late June and July of 2011 and of 2012 from study plots located in tundra fire scars and adjacent unburned tundra areas on the Seward Peninsula and the northern foothills of the Brooks Range in Arctic Alaska. The surveys focused on...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: BREEN, A.L., WALKER, D.A.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center 2017
Subjects:
Arctic
Northern Foothills
Brooks Range
Seward Peninsula
Tundra
Alaska
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ornldaac/1547
https://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dsviewer.pl?ds_id=1547
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Summary:This dataset provides environmental and vegetation data collected in late June and July of 2011 and of 2012 from study plots located in tundra fire scars and adjacent unburned tundra areas on the Seward Peninsula and the northern foothills of the Brooks Range in Arctic Alaska. The surveys focused on upland tundra settings and provide information on vegetative differences between the burned and unburned sites. The sampling design established a chronosequence of sites that varied in time since last fire to better understand post-fire vegetation successional trajectories. Complete species lists and their cover abundance data are provided for both study areas. Environmental data include the baseline plot descriptive information for vegetation, soils, and site factors. No soil samples were collected.

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