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...