(Table 1) Cover of shrub and tree species, and number of stems (>=3.5 cm DBH) during 1976-1977 and 2009-2010, respectively

• Main Authors: Rundqvist, Sara, Hedenås, Henrik, Sandström, Anneli, Emanuelsson, Urban, Eriksson, Håkan, Jonasson, Christer, Callaghan, Terry V
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2011
• Subjects: Abisko_ANS; Abisko; Lappland; northern Sweden; Abisko Scientific Research Station; Area/locality; Betula nana; cover; Betula pubescens czerepanovii; DATE/TIME; Date/time end; International Polar Year (2007-2008); IPY; Juniperus communis; Number of stems; Populus tremula; Salix spp.; Sorbus aucuparia; Trees and shrubs; Arctic; Climate change; Dwarf birch; Global warming; International Polar Year; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.819497; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.819497

Shrubs and trees are expected to expand in the sub-Arctic due to global warming. Our study was conducted in Abisko, sub-arctic Sweden. We recorded the change in coverage of shrub and tree species over a 32- to 34-year period, in three 50 x 50 m plots; in the alpine-tree-line ecotone. The cover of sh...