Tree characteristics, biomass and vegetation cover near Abisko Research Station in 1997 and 2010

• Main Authors: Hedenås, Henrik, Olsson, Håkan, Jonasson, Christer, Bergstedt, Johan, Dahlberg, Ulrika, Callaghan, Terry V
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2011
• Subjects: Abisko_ANS; Abisko; Lappland; northern Sweden; Abisko Scientific Research Station; International Polar Year (2007-2008); IPY; Arctic; International Polar Year; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.810621; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.810621

This study was conducted in the Swedish sub-Arctic, near Abisko, in order to assess the direction and scale of possible vegetation changes in the alpine-birch forest ecotone. We have re-surveyed shrub, tree and vegetation data at 549 plots grouped into 61 clusters. The plots were originally surveyed...