ABoVE: Post-Fire and Unburned Vegetation Community and Field Data, NWT, Canada, 2019 : Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE)

This dataset provides vegetation community characteristics, soil moisture, and biophysical data collected in 2019 from 11 study areas, which contained 28 sites that were burned by wildfires in 2014 and 2015, and 14 unburned sites in the Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada. Burn sites included peatla...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bourgeau-Chavez, L.L., Battaglia, M.J., Siqueira, P., Weinstein, C., Rose, S., Smith, H., Uhelski, D., Vander Bilt, D.J.L.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center 2022
Subjects:
LAND SURFACE, FROZEN GROUND, ACTIVE LAYER,
LAND SURFACE, FROZEN GROUND, SOIL TEMPERATURE,
LAND SURFACE, SOILS, SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT,
BIOSPHERE, VEGETATION, VEGETATION COVER,
BIOSPHERE, ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS, FIRE ECOLOGY,
HUMAN DIMENSIONS, NATURAL HAZARDS, WILDFIRES,
FIELD INVESTIGATION, SOIL TEMPERATURE PROBE
FIELD INVESTIGATION, SOIL DEPTH PROBE
FIELD INVESTIGATION, SOIL MOISTURE PROBE
UAVSAR
Radarsat-2
shrub diameter
ground cover
overstory
understory
seedling
seedbed
soil moisture
vegetation cover
active layer thickness
revegetation
wildfire
Arctic
Canada
Northwest Territories
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ornldaac/1900
https://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dsviewer.pl?ds_id=1900
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Summary:This dataset provides vegetation community characteristics, soil moisture, and biophysical data collected in 2019 from 11 study areas, which contained 28 sites that were burned by wildfires in 2014 and 2015, and 14 unburned sites in the Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada. Burn sites included peatland and upland. These field data include vegetation inventories, ground cover, as well as diameter and height for trees and shrubs in the unburned sites. Similar data were collected for the unburned sites in years 2015-18 and are available in related separate datasets. In 2019, the focus was on woody and non-woody seedling/sprouting regrowth data in the burned sites. Additional measurements collected at all sites included total peat depth, soil moisture, and active layer thickness (ALT). Soil moisture and ALT were collected for validation of the UAVSAR airborne collection and Radarsat-2 overpasses. This 2019 fieldwork completes five years of field sampling at the wildfire areas.

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