Abstract:
This dataset contains the percentage cover of plant species, bare ground and litter from twelve 1x1m vegetation monitoring plots. Plots are from two distinct vegetation communities (Herschel, Komakuk) approximately 500m apart. Plots were established in 1999 and monitored in 2004, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. Data is presented as total percentage cover per species (not relative cover).
Funding was provided by the NERC grant NE/M016323/1.
Keywords:
climate change, repeat monitoring, tundra, vegetation
Myers-Smith, I., Thomas, H., & Daskalova, G. (2019). Percent cover of tundra plant species at twelve repeat-monitoring plots (1999-2017) on Qikiqtaruk-Herschel Island, Yukon, Canada (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/a707cb0b-2f56-49f4-96d4-e9f5c04dd657
| Access Constraints: | No restrictions apply. |
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| Use Constraints: | This data is covered by a UK Open Government Licence (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/). Further by downloading this data the user acknowledges that they agree with the NERC data policy (http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy.asp), and the following conditions: Please contact authors before publishing the data. Please use the following acknowledgements when using/publishing the data: "We thank the Herschel Island-Qikiqtaruk Territorial Park, Isla Myers-Smith, Cameron Eckert, Richard Gordon, Catherine Kennedy, Dorothy Cooley, and Dr. Jill F. Johnstone for establishing and maintaining the phenology and composition data from Qikiqtaruk. We thank Haydn J.D. Thomas, Meagan M. Grabowski, Sandra Angers-Blondin, Gergana N. Daskalova, Jakob J. Assmann for assisting with the collection and compilation of the data. We thank rangers including Edward McLeod, Samuel McLeod, Ricky Joe, Paden Lennie, Deon Arey, LeeJohn Meyook, Jordan McLeod, Pierre Foisy, Colin Gordon, Jeremy Hansen, Albert Rufus and field assistants including Santeri Lehtonen, William Palmer, Louise Beveridge, Clara Flintrop, John Godlee, Eleanor Walker, Joseph Boyle, Catherine Henry and Anika Trimble. Funding for data collection was provided by Herschel Island-Qikiqtaruk Territorial Park and the UK Natural Environment Research Council ShrubTundra Grant (NE/M016323/1). We thank the Inuvialuit People for the opportunity to collect these data on their traditional lands." |
| Creation Date: | 2018-07-24 |
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| Dataset Progress: | Complete |
| Dataset Language: | English |
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| Personnel: | |
| Name | UK PDC |
| Role(s) | Metadata Author |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Isla Myers-Smith |
| Role(s) | Investigator, Technical Contact |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Name | Haydn Thomas |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Name | Gergana Daskalova |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Name | Sandra Angers-Blondin |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Name | Jakob Assmann |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Name | John Godlee |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Name | Eleanor Walker |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Name | Joe Boyle |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Name | Santeri Lehtonen |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Parent Dataset: | N/A |
| Reference: | Myers-Smith et al. (2019). Eighteen years of ecological monitoring reveals multiple lines of evidence for tundra vegetation change. Ecological Monographs. 10.1002/ecm.1351. Henry, G & Molau, U (1997) Tundra plants and climate change: the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX). Global Change Biology. 3(S1) 1-9 Elmendorf, S et al (2012) Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming. Nature Climate Change. 2(6) 435-457 Arft, A.M., Walker, M.D., Gurevitch, J.E.A., Alatalo, J.M., Bret-Harte, M.S., Dale, M., Diemer, M., Gugerli, F., Henry, G.H.R., Jones, M.H. and Hollister, R.D., 1999. Responses of tundra plants to experimental warming: meta‐analysis of the international tundra experiment. Ecological monographs, 69(4), pp.491-511. Walker, M.D., Wahren, C.H., Hollister, R.D., Henry, G.H., Ahlquist, L.E., Alatalo, J.M., Bret-Harte, M.S., Calef, M.P., Callaghan, T.V., Carroll, A.B. and Epstein, H.E., 2006. Plant community responses to experimental warming across the tundra biome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(5), pp.1342-1346. |
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| Quality: | Researchers were consistent across plots from 2004 - 2017. | |
| Lineage: | Traits were collected as part of field expeditions to Qikiqtaruk-Herschel Island to examine the effect of climate change on plant communities. Data were collecting using the 'point-frame' methodology, whereby a 1x1m grid, divided into 100 equally spaced points, is placed over the monitoring plot. A pin is dropped from the grid to the ground at every point, and all plants touching the pin are recorded. | |
| Temporal Coverage: | |
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| Start Date | 1999-01-01 |
| End Date | 2017-12-31 |
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| Latitude | |
| Southernmost | 69.57487 |
| Northernmost | 69.57487 |
| Longitude | |
| Westernmost | -138.8634 |
| Easternmost | -138.8634 |
| Altitude | |
| Min Altitude | N/A |
| Max Altitude | N/A |
| Depth | |
| Min Depth | N/A |
| Max Depth | N/A |
| Location: | |
| Location | Arctic |
| Detailed Location | Qikiqtaruk-Herschel Island, Yukon Territory |
| Data Storage: | The data is approximately 161 kB and is in CSV format. |
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