Vascular plant biodiversity of Katannilik Territorial Park, Kimmirut and vicinity on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada: an annotated checklist of an Arctic flora

• Published in: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Saarela, Jeffery M., Sokoloff, Paul C., Gillespie, Lynn J., Bull, Roger D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Pensoft Publishers 2023
• Subjects: Canadian Heritage River; floristics; herbarium specimens; Joseph Dewey Soper; Malte Oscar Malte; Nicholas Polunin; Soper River; Arctic; Nunavut; Baffin Island; Canada; Dewey; Fontana; Kimmirut; Arctic biodiversity; Baffin; Campanula rotundifolia; Climate change; Erigeron eriocephalus; Eriophorum; Eriophorum scheuchzeri; Honckenya peploides; Luzula groenlandica
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7512151; https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.217.90573

The Arctic ecozone is undergoing a rapid transformation in response to climate change. Establishing a baseline of current Arctic biodiversity is necessary to be able to track changes in species diversity and distribution over time. Here, we report a vascular plant floristic study of Katannilik Terri...