Foliage projective cover of 26 vegetation sites of central Lena Delta from 2018

• Main Authors: Shevtsova, Iuliia, Laschinskiy, Nikolay, Heim, Birgit, Herzschuh, Ulrike
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA
• Subjects: Achoriphragma nudicaule; cover; Aconogonon tripleocarpum; Arctophila fulva; Arctous erythrocarpa; Artemisia tilesii; Astragalus alpinus; Astragalus frigidus; AWI_Envi; AWI Arctic Land Expedition; Betula exilis; Bistorta elliptica; Bistorta vivipara; Calamagrostis holmii; Caltha arctica; Carbon in Permafrost / Kohlenstoff im Permafrost; Carex spp.; Cassiope tetragona; Castilleja hyparctica; central Lena Delta; Chrysosplenium sibiricum; Comarum palustre; Delphinium chamissonis; Descurainia sophioides; Draba juvenilis; Draba pilosa; Dryas punctata; Empetrum nigrum; Arctic; Alfred Wegener Institute; lena delta; permafrost
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.935875

Field investigations were performed in the central Lena Delta. In total, 26 sites were investigated. The sites were chosen to represent a variety of vegetation communities of the investigated region. For every field site a detailed description of the vegetation was made. Foliage projective cover for all major taxa estimated as percent and averaged from five representative 2 x 2 m plots within 30 m² sites (for Larix Cajanderi directly on the 30 x 30 m site). All data was collected by scientists from Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research and University of Potsdam, Germany.