Vascular plant biodiversity of Dorset and Mallik islands, Nunavut, Canada: an annotated checklist of a middle Arctic flora in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

• Published in: Phytotaxa
• Main Authors: SAARELA, JEFFERY M., SOKOLOFF, PAUL C., BULL, ROGER D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Phytotaxa 2020
• Subjects: General; Cape Dorset; floristics; herbarium specimens; Kinngait; Mallikjuaq Territorial Park; Arctic; Nunavut; Baffin Island; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Canada; Foxe Peninsula; Mallik Island; Dorset Island; Arctic Archipelago; Baffin; Climate change; Eriophorum; Eriophorum scheuchzeri; Oxytropis deflexa
• Online Access: https://www.mapress.com/j/pt/article/view/phytotaxa.471.3.1; https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.471.3.1

Establishing a baseline of current Arctic vascular plant diversity and distribution is critical, given the rapid and major environmental changes occurring in the Arctic ecozone in response to climate change. Here, we report the results of a floristic study of vascular plant diversity of Dorset and M...