ABoVE: Lichen Forage Cover over Fortymile Caribou Range, Alaska and Yukon, 2000-2015 : Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE)

• Main Authors: Macander, M., Palm, E.C., Frost, G.V., Nelson, P.R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center 2021
• Subjects: BIOSPHERE, VEGETATION, VEGETATION COVER,; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, MAMMALS, EVEN-TOED UNGULATES; BIOSPHERE, ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS, SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS, GRAZING DYNAMICS/PLANT HERBIVORY; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, FUNGI, LICHENS,; Environmental Modeling, Computer; UAV, CAMERA; terricolous light-colored macrolichens; Cetraria and Cladonia genera; fruticose and foliose growth forms; Rangifer tarandus; caribou; estimated lichen cover; Arctic; Yukon; Canada; Caribou Range; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ornldaac/1867; https://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dsviewer.pl?ds_id=1867

This dataset provides modeled estimates of lichen ground cover at 30 m resolution across the Fortymile study area in interior eastern Alaska, U.S., and the Yukon Territory, Canada, for the nominal year 2015. The mapped lichens are important winter forage for the nine resident caribou (Rangifer taran...