Survey of the vascular plants of Alert (Ellesmere Island, Canada), a polar desert at the northern tip of the Americas
Long-term monitoring is critical to guide conservation strategies and assess the impacts of climatic changes and anthropogenic activities. In High Arctic ecosystems, information on distribution and population trends of plants is dramatically lacking. During two field expeditions in 2018 and 2019, we...
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ftpensoft:10.15560/17.1.181 2023-05-15T14:49:41+02:00 Survey of the vascular plants of Alert (Ellesmere Island, Canada), a polar desert at the northern tip of the Americas Desjardins,Émilie Lai,Sandra Payette,Serge Dubé,Martin Sokoloff,Paul St-Louis,Annie Poulin,Marie-Pier Legros,Jade Sirois,Luc Vézina,François Tam,Andrew Berteaux,Dominique 2021 text/html https://doi.org/10.15560/17.1.181 https://checklist.pensoft.net/article/59245/ en eng Pensoft Publishers info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/eissn/1809-127X info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Check List 17(1): 181-225 Arctic endemic species Floristic inventory High Arctic imperiled species northern distribution Annotated List of Species 2021 ftpensoft https://doi.org/10.15560/17.1.181 2022-03-01T12:46:09Z Long-term monitoring is critical to guide conservation strategies and assess the impacts of climatic changes and anthropogenic activities. In High Arctic ecosystems, information on distribution and population trends of plants is dramatically lacking. During two field expeditions in 2018 and 2019, we conducted a systematic floristic survey together with opportunistic collecting in the polar desert surrounding Alert (Nunavut, Canada) to update past vascular plant inventories. We recorded 58 species, of which 54 species were recorded over the last seven decades, and four species that are additions to the local flora (Draba pauciflora R. Brown, Festuca edlundiae S.G. Aiken, Consaul, & Lefkovitch, Festuca hyperborea Holmen ex Frederiksen, and ×Pucciphippsia vacillans (T. Fries) Tzvelev). With the addition of 19 species that were previously reported but not found in our survey, we estimate the species richness in the study area at 77 species. Other/Unknown Material Arctic Draba pauciflora Ellesmere Island Festuca hyperborea Nunavut polar desert Pensoft Publishers Arctic Canada Ellesmere Island Fries ENVELOPE(156.583,156.583,-80.950,-80.950) Nunavut Check List 17 1 181 225 |
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Arctic endemic species Floristic inventory High Arctic imperiled species northern distribution Desjardins,Émilie Lai,Sandra Payette,Serge Dubé,Martin Sokoloff,Paul St-Louis,Annie Poulin,Marie-Pier Legros,Jade Sirois,Luc Vézina,François Tam,Andrew Berteaux,Dominique Survey of the vascular plants of Alert (Ellesmere Island, Canada), a polar desert at the northern tip of the Americas |
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Long-term monitoring is critical to guide conservation strategies and assess the impacts of climatic changes and anthropogenic activities. In High Arctic ecosystems, information on distribution and population trends of plants is dramatically lacking. During two field expeditions in 2018 and 2019, we conducted a systematic floristic survey together with opportunistic collecting in the polar desert surrounding Alert (Nunavut, Canada) to update past vascular plant inventories. We recorded 58 species, of which 54 species were recorded over the last seven decades, and four species that are additions to the local flora (Draba pauciflora R. Brown, Festuca edlundiae S.G. Aiken, Consaul, & Lefkovitch, Festuca hyperborea Holmen ex Frederiksen, and ×Pucciphippsia vacillans (T. Fries) Tzvelev). With the addition of 19 species that were previously reported but not found in our survey, we estimate the species richness in the study area at 77 species. |
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Desjardins,Émilie Lai,Sandra Payette,Serge Dubé,Martin Sokoloff,Paul St-Louis,Annie Poulin,Marie-Pier Legros,Jade Sirois,Luc Vézina,François Tam,Andrew Berteaux,Dominique |
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Desjardins,Émilie Lai,Sandra Payette,Serge Dubé,Martin Sokoloff,Paul St-Louis,Annie Poulin,Marie-Pier Legros,Jade Sirois,Luc Vézina,François Tam,Andrew Berteaux,Dominique |
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Survey of the vascular plants of Alert (Ellesmere Island, Canada), a polar desert at the northern tip of the Americas |
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Survey of the vascular plants of Alert (Ellesmere Island, Canada), a polar desert at the northern tip of the Americas |
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Survey of the vascular plants of Alert (Ellesmere Island, Canada), a polar desert at the northern tip of the Americas |
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Survey of the vascular plants of Alert (Ellesmere Island, Canada), a polar desert at the northern tip of the Americas |
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Survey of the vascular plants of Alert (Ellesmere Island, Canada), a polar desert at the northern tip of the Americas |
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survey of the vascular plants of alert (ellesmere island, canada), a polar desert at the northern tip of the americas |
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