Comparison of methods for revegetation of vehicle tracks in High Arctic tundra on Svalbard.
Natural regeneration after anthropogenic disturbance is slow in the tundra biome, but assisted regeneration can help speed up the process. A tracked off-road vehicle damaged a High Arctic dwarf shrub heath in Svalbard in May 2009, drastically reducing vegetation cover, soil seed bank and incoming se...
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fthsinnlandet:oai:brage.inn.no:11250/3000178 2024-03-03T08:39:35+00:00 Comparison of methods for revegetation of vehicle tracks in High Arctic tundra on Svalbard. Neby, Magne Semenchuk, Philipp Neby, Erica Cooper, Elisabeth 2021 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3000178 https://doi.org/10.1139/AS-2021-0016 eng eng Arctic Science. 2021 urn:issn:2368-7460 https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3000178 https://doi.org/10.1139/AS-2021-0016 cristin:1981594 Navngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no 38 Arctic Science Arctic revegetation Svalbard plant community restoration VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400 Peer reviewed Journal article 2021 fthsinnlandet https://doi.org/10.1139/AS-2021-0016 2024-02-02T12:42:13Z Natural regeneration after anthropogenic disturbance is slow in the tundra biome, but assisted regeneration can help speed up the process. A tracked off-road vehicle damaged a High Arctic dwarf shrub heath in Svalbard in May 2009, drastically reducing vegetation cover, soil seed bank and incoming seed rain. We assisted regeneration the following year using six different revegetation treatments, and monitored their effects one month-, and one- and eight years after their application. By 2018, all treatments still had a lower vegetation cover and limited species composition than the undamaged reference vegetation. The fertiliser treatment was the most effective in restoring vegetation cover (71 % vegetation cover, of which 62 % were bryophytes and 38 % vascular plant species). Compared to the reference plots (98 % vegetation cover, of which 32 % were bryophytes and 66 % were vascular plant species), the composition of the disturbed vegetation was still far from regenerated to its original state nine years after the tracks were made. The slow regrowth demonstrated in this study underlines the importance of avoiding disturbance of fragile tundra, and of implementing and upholding regulations restricting or banning such disturbance. publishedVersion Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Svalbard Tundra Høgskolen i Innlandet: Brage INN Arctic Svalbard Arctic Science 8 3 1006 1025 |
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Natural regeneration after anthropogenic disturbance is slow in the tundra biome, but assisted regeneration can help speed up the process. A tracked off-road vehicle damaged a High Arctic dwarf shrub heath in Svalbard in May 2009, drastically reducing vegetation cover, soil seed bank and incoming seed rain. We assisted regeneration the following year using six different revegetation treatments, and monitored their effects one month-, and one- and eight years after their application. By 2018, all treatments still had a lower vegetation cover and limited species composition than the undamaged reference vegetation. The fertiliser treatment was the most effective in restoring vegetation cover (71 % vegetation cover, of which 62 % were bryophytes and 38 % vascular plant species). Compared to the reference plots (98 % vegetation cover, of which 32 % were bryophytes and 66 % were vascular plant species), the composition of the disturbed vegetation was still far from regenerated to its original state nine years after the tracks were made. The slow regrowth demonstrated in this study underlines the importance of avoiding disturbance of fragile tundra, and of implementing and upholding regulations restricting or banning such disturbance. publishedVersion |
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Comparison of methods for revegetation of vehicle tracks in High Arctic tundra on Svalbard. |
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Comparison of methods for revegetation of vehicle tracks in High Arctic tundra on Svalbard. |
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Comparison of methods for revegetation of vehicle tracks in High Arctic tundra on Svalbard. |
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Comparison of methods for revegetation of vehicle tracks in High Arctic tundra on Svalbard. |
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Comparison of methods for revegetation of vehicle tracks in High Arctic tundra on Svalbard. |
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