Abstract:
This dataset contains records of the number of open flowers per plant species in each 2x2m plot on different survey dates. Plots are from two distinct vegetation communities (Herschel, Komakuk, coded in the data as HER and KOM). Plots were monitored in 2017.
Funding was provided by the NERC grant NE/M016323/1.
Keywords:
climate change, phenology, repeat monitoring, tundra, vegetation
Myers-Smith, I., & Daskalova, G. (2019). Number of flowering tundra plant species at eight monitoring plots (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/10.5285/90d09062-2f50-4742-b4da-41b92d88fbe6
| 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: | 2018-07-16 |
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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) | Technical Contact, Investigator |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Name | Gergana Daskalova |
| 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. | |
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| Quality: | All 2017 flower count records were collected by the same researcher following a consistent protocol. | |
| Lineage: | Number of open flowers from all present species in each plot were monitored as part of a study on phenological changes in tundra plant species. | |
| Temporal Coverage: | |
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| Start Date | 2017-06-25 |
| End Date | 2017-08-09 |
| Spatial Coverage: | |
| 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 |
| Data Resolution: | |
| Latitude Resolution | N/A |
| Longitude Resolution | N/A |
| Horizontal Resolution Range | 1 meter - < 30 meters |
| Vertical Resolution | N/A |
| Vertical Resolution Range | N/A |
| Temporal Resolution | N/A |
| Temporal Resolution Range | N/A |
| Location: | |
| Location | Arctic |
| Detailed Location | Northern Canada - Qikiqtaruk-Herschel Island, Yukon Territory |
| Data Collection: | A plant guide was used to identify species. Resolution: 2x2 meter plots |
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| Data Storage: | The data is approximately 15 kB and is in CSV format. |
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