Plant primary production and goose grazing impact at Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island

We sample the production of plants (sedges, grasses, forbs and shrubs) and measure the impact of goose grazing in wetlands and mesic habitat since 2007. In both habitat, 6 new exclosures (1 m x 1 m x 50 cm high) made of chicken wire are installed in late June. At the end of the growing season in ear...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Josée Lefebvre, Canadian Wildlife Service, Austin Reed, Canadian Wildlife Service
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: Canadian Cryospheric Information Network 2015
Subjects:
Biomass
Eastwind Lake
Ellesmere Island
Eureka
Fosheim Peninsula
Grazing impacts
Mesic tundra
Plants
Primary production
Wetland
International Polar Year-Arctic Wildlife Observatories Linking Vulnerable EcoSystems
Arctic
International Polar Year
Tundra
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5443/735
https://www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch/?doi_id=735
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Summary:We sample the production of plants (sedges, grasses, forbs and shrubs) and measure the impact of goose grazing in wetlands and mesic habitat since 2007. In both habitat, 6 new exclosures (1 m x 1 m x 50 cm high) made of chicken wire are installed in late June. At the end of the growing season in early August, we sample plant biomass by removing 20 x 20 cm plots in wetland and 20 x 50 cm in mesic habitat in ungrazed and grazed areas (i.e. inside and outside exclosures). All live above-ground biomass is cut, sorted out by species and weighed dry. : Purpose: Monitoring of graminoid primary production and the impact of goose grazing in wetlands and mesic habitat : Summary: Not Applicable

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