Biocomplexity of Patterned Ground: Mould Bay Expedition, Version 1.0

• Main Authors: Munger, C., Raynolds, M., Kade, A., Walker, D.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory 2009
• Subjects: Arctic; Land Character.; Vegetation Sampling; ARCSS; NSF Arctic System Science; Fairbanks; Inuvik; Mould Bay; Northwest Territories; Prince Patrick Island; Biocomplexity associated with biogeochemical cycles in arctic frost-boil ecosystems; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5065/d6v122w8; https://arcticdata.io/catalog/#view/doi:10.5065/D6V122W8

A team of 24 people from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and other organizations worked at Inuvik, NorthWest Territories (NWT) and Mould Bay, Prince Patrick Island, NWT during the period 12-27 July 2004, as part of the "Biocomplexity associated with biogeochemical cycles in arctic frost-boil ecosystems" project. This year's work was the third in a 5-year project. The main objective of the research is to investigate the properties of small patterned-ground ecosystems along a climate gradient from the coldest parts of the Arctic to the northern boreal forest. The team is studying earth hummocks, non-sorted circles, small non-sorted polygons, and turf hummocks - how they form, how they vary with climate and substrate, and their role in total ecosystem functions.