Long-term monitoring of goose forage plant community standing crop on Akimiski Island, Nunavut

• Main Author: Abraham, Kenneth F.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Cryospheric Information Network 2012
• Subjects: Akimiski Island; Biomass; Graminoids; Grazing impacts; Monitoring; Primary production; Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program, Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna - Terrestrial; International Polar Year-Arctic Wildlife Observatories Linking Vulnerable EcoSystems; Arctic; Nunavut; Akimiski island; Circumpolar biodiversity monitoring program; Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna; International Polar Year; IPY
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5443/1740; https://www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch/?doi_id=1740

Monitoring of the standing crop or primary production of the main goose forage species has been conducted since 1997. Temporary exclosures are erected seasonally to allow comparison of grazed and ungrazed swards of Puccinelia phyrganodes and Festuca rubra. Samples are collected at 5 sites along the...