Seasonal and annual dynamics of western Canadian boreal forest plant communities: a legacy dataset spanning four decades

• Main Authors: Hesketh, Amelia, Loesberg, Jenna, Bledsoe, Ellen, Karst, Justine, Macdonald, Ellen
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholars Portal Dataverse 2021
• Subjects: Canada; Slave Lake
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5683/sp3/pzcave; https://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/citation?persistentId=doi:10.5683/SP3/PZCAVE

The primary purpose of the Seasonal Dynamics (SEADYN) and later Annual Dynamics (ANNDYN) research projects was to document seasonal changes in the vegetative composition during the snow-free season (May through October) and longer-term changes in vegetation and forest mensuration for boreal forest stands in Alberta, Canada dominated by Pinus banksiana (Lamb.). Two regions were used for this study: one in the Hondo-Slave Lake (hereafter, Hondo) region of Alberta, which was surveyed from 1980 to 2015, and a second location in the Athabasca Oil Sands (hereafter, AOS) region in northeastern Alberta, which was surveyed from 1981 to 1984 and thought to have substantial atmospheric pollution due to regional industrial development (oil sands mining and processing). Extensive metadata related to these data, including experimental methods, can be found in the document 'metadata.pdf'.