Data for: Response of boreal plant communities and forest floor carbon fluxes to experimental nutrient additions ...

• Main Authors: Standen, Katherine M., Baltzer, Jennifer L.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Borealis 2024
• Subjects: Scotty Creek; permafrost
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5683/sp3/pvbg2s; https://borealisdata.ca/citation?persistentId=doi:10.5683/SP3/PVBG2S

This is the final dataset for the publication "Response of boreal plant communities and forest floor carbon fluxes to experimental nutrient additions" published in the peer-reviewed journal Ecosystems in 2024. This dataset includes three primary files: the plant community composition data the plant functional trait data the forest floor carbon flux and associated environmental variables data. Combined, the plant community composition data and plant functional trait data were used to calculate the community-weighted mean traits presented in the manuscript. These data explored changes in community-weighted mean traits of both moss and understory vascular plant communities as well as forest floor carbon flux with nutrient fertilization emulating nutrient increases following permafrost thaw in a boreal peatland (Scotty Creek Research Station, NT: 61°18′ N, 121°,18′ W). We had two sites in this boreal peatland: one with high canopy cover, and one with low canopy cover. We conducted an experiment whereby we set up ...