Data from: Plant trait response of tundra shrubs to permafrost and nutrient addition

• Main Authors: Iturrate-Garcia, Maitane, Schaepman-Strub, Gabriela
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Arctic shrubification; permafrost thaw depth; stem traits; tundra shrubs; Plant growth strategy; plant functional types (PFT); resource acquisition trade-off; Arctic; Betula nana; Climate change; permafrost; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4010827; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.jh9w0vt8v

Plants may alter their strategies, such as growth and resource acquisition, as a result of climate change, especially in areas like the Arctic. These changes might affect in turn ecosystem functions and vegetation-climate interactions. Plant traits reflect both strategies and plant trade-offs in response to environmental conditions. In combination with observational data, experiments mimicking future climate conditions and data involving multiple leaf and stem traits, can contribute to a better mechanistic understanding of feedbacks between shrub growth strategies, permafrost thaw and carbon and energy fluxes. This dataset contains both metadata and plant trait data measured in individuals of four arctic shrub species under experimental conditions. The permafrost thaw and fertilization experiment (Peng et al., 2017) ran for four years (2011-2014) in the nature reserve of Kytalyk, north-eastern Siberia (70°49'N, 147°28'E). The shrub species, dominant at the research site, were the deciduous species Betula nana ssp. exilis (Sukazcev) Hultén and Salix pulchra Cham., and the evergreen species Ledum palustre ssp. decumbens (Aiton) Hultén and Vaccinium vitis-idaea L. Please read the readme file (tundra_shrub_traits_README.txt) for description of the data included in the file tundra_shrub_traits.csv. Funding provided by: University of Zurich*Crossref Funder Registry ID: Award Number: University Research Priority Program on Global Change and Biodiversity (URPP-GCB)Funding provided by: Swiss National Foundation*Crossref Funder Registry ID: Award Number: SNSF project grant 140631Funding provided by: Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research*Crossref Funder Registry ID: Award Number: (NWO-ALW) VIDI grant 864.09.014Funding provided by: University of ZurichCrossref Funder Registry ID: Award Number: University Research Priority Program on Global Change and Biodiversity (URPP-GCB)Funding provided by: Swiss National FoundationCrossref Funder Registry ID: Award Number: SNSF project grant 140631Funding provided by: ...