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

• 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

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