Long-term monitoring of plant net primary production, flowering times and goose grazing impact on vegetation of the Cape Churchill Peninsula, Manitoba

• Main Authors: Jefferies, Robert L., Horrigan, Emma, Rockwell, Robert F.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Cryospheric Information Network 2012
• Subjects: Cape Churchill; Carbon; Graminoids; Grazing impacts; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Primary production; Soil microbial biomass; Soil temperature; Wetland; Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program, Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna - Terrestrial; International Polar Year-Arctic Wildlife Observatories Linking Vulnerable EcoSystems; Arctic; Churchill Peninsula; Churchill; Circumpolar biodiversity monitoring program; Climate change; Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna; International Polar Year
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5443/732; https://www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch/?doi_id=732

Measurements were taken of above- and below-ground standing crop in wet sedge meadows and an intertidal salt marsh in grazed and ungrazed plots treated with nutrients (NPC, NP, C, control). Plot sizes were 50 cm x 50 cm (n = 3 or 5). The nutrient content of the plant samples will be analyzed and the...