Abiotic and vegetation community data from Alnus alnobetula shrub and open tundra sites at Trail Valley Creek, NT
Section 1: Overview
Name of Research Project
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GWF-NWF: Northern Water Futures
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GWF-NWF: Northern Water Futures | |
Dataset Title
Abiotic and vegetation community data from Alnus alnobetula shrub and open tundra sites at Trail Valley Creek, NT
Additional Information
Creators and Contributors
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Cory Wallace | Originator | | Wilfrid Laurier University |
Jennifer Baltzer | Principal Investigator | jbaltzer@wlu.ca | Wilfrid Laurier University |
Abstract
To do this we selected ten sites on south facing slopes with both alder shrub patches and adjacent shrub-free tundra and established quadrats in each habitat and across topographic positions. Within each of these quadrats we selected two sub-quadrats for vegetation community composition and birch height observations. We also measured a suite of environmental variables within 50 cm of each larger quadrat. For detailed description of methods see Wallace and Baltzer (2019),
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-019-00435-0. (2019-09-16).
Purpose
These data were collected to explore the capacity of Alnus alnobetula (green alder) shrub patches to modify the habitat and composition of the local plant community at the taiga-tundra ecotone near Trail Valley Creek Research Station in the Northwest Territories.
Plain Language Summary
Keywords
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Alnus alnobetula |
Green alder |
Plant community |
Ecotone |
Trail Valley Creek |
Citations
Wallace, Cory A; Baltzer, Jennifer L, 2019, "Abiotic and vegetation community data from Alnus alnobetula shrub and open tundra sites at Trail Valley Creek, NT",
https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/F4PQRY, Scholars Portal Dataverse, V2
Section 2: Research Site
Temporal Extent
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Begin Date
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End Date
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2015-06-15
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2017-04-15
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Geographic Bounding Box
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West Boundary Longitude
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-133.546
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East Boundary Longitude
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-133.4811
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North Boundary Latitude
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68.7517
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South Boundary Latitude
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68.73008
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Is Boundary Rectangular
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Trail Valley Creek
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Trail Valley Creek Research Station
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Section 3: Status and Provenance
Dataset Version
2.0
Dataset Creation Date
2019-09-20
Status of data collection/production
Dataset Completion or Abandonment Date
2019-10-04
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Section 4: Access and Downloads
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Access, Use, and Distribution of these data, metadata, and associated materials are governed by this CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
The terms of this license are available at:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.
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Total Size of all Dataset Files (GB)
0.000121
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List of Parameters and Variables
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Soil moisture | % | | Field observation, Field survey |
Organic matter thickness | cm | | Field observation, Field survey |
Active layer thickness | cm | | Field observation, Field survey |
Snow depth | cm | | Field observation, Field survey |
Decomposition rate | % | | Field observation, Field survey |
Vegetation community composition | % | | Field observation, Field survey |
Vegetation height | cm | | Field observation, Field survey |
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