Number of flowering tundra plant species at eight monitoring plots (2017) on Qikiqtaruk-Herschel Island, Yukon, Canada

• Main Authors: Myers-Smith, Isla, Daskalova, Gergana
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation 2019
• Subjects: "EARTH SCIENCE","BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION","PLANTS","ANGIOSPERMS FLOWERING PLANTS"; "EARTH SCIENCE","BIOSPHERE","ECOSYSTEMS","TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS","ALPINE/TUNDRA"; "EARTH SCIENCE","BIOSPHERE","VEGETATION","VEGETATION COVER"; Tundra; vegetation; repeat monitoring; climate change; phenology; Canada; Herschel Island; Yukon; Herschel
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/90d09062-2f50-4742-b4da-41b92d88fbe6; https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01087

This dataset contains records of the number of open flowers per plant species in each 2x2m plot on different survey dates. Plots are from two distinct vegetation communities (Herschel, Komakuk, coded in the data as HER and KOM). Plots were monitored in 2017. Funding was provided by the NERC grant NE/M016323/1. : Number of open flowers from all present species in each plot were monitored as part of a study on phenological changes in tundra plant species. : A plant guide was used to identify species. Resolution: 2x2 meter plots : All 2017 flower count records were collected by the same researcher following a consistent protocol.