Vascular plant community surveys across different reindeer grazing regimes in the Fennoscandian tundra ...

• Main Authors: Gibson, Kate, Oloffson, Johan, Mooers, Arne, Monroe, Melanie
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2021
• Subjects: FOS Biological sciences; Monroe; Fennoscandia; Fennoscandian; Rangifer tarandus; Tundra
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.dbrv15f24; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.dbrv15f24

This dataset contains data from the experiment described in "Gibson K., Olofsson, J. Mooers, A. Ø., & Monroe, M. J. (2021) Pulse grazing by reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) can increase the phylogenetic diversity of vascular plant communities in the Fennoscandian tundra. Ecology and Evolution. In press." The data is from a multi-year (2004-2007) quasi-experimental study in Northern Fennoscandia, which was designed to analyze the effect of reindeer grazing on vascular plant community diversity. Our study design used a permanent fence constructed in the 1960s and temporary fences constructed along the permanent fence to expose plant communities to three different grazing regimes: light (almost never grazed), pulse (grazed every other year) and press (chronic grazing for over forty years). The study deisgn consisted of plots setup at five different sites at least 100m apart from each other along the permanent fence. Each site was divided into the three grazing regimes (light, pulse and press). For each site and ... : Information on how the plant surveys were performed can be found in the associated manuscript referenced above. ...