Full Record - Percent cover of tundra plant species at twelve repeat-monitoring plots (1999-2017) on Qikiqtaruk-Herschel Island, Yukon, Canada

Percent cover of tundra plant species at twelve repeat-monitoring plots (1999-2017) on Qikiqtaruk-Herschel Island, Yukon, Canada

GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01091

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.

Citation:
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

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Use:	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."

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No restrictions apply.

Use:

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."

Authors

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

Basic Information

Creation Date:	2018-07-24
Dataset Progress:	Complete
Dataset Language:	English
ISO Topic Categories:	Biota Environment
Parameters:	Biosphere > Terrestrial Ecosystems > Alpine/Tundra Biosphere > Vegetation > Vegetation Cover

Additional Information

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.
Quality:	Researchers were consistent across plots from 2004 - 2017.
Lineage/Methodology:	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.

Extent

Temporal Coverage:
Start Date	1999-01-01
End Date	2017-12-31

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

Location:
Location	Arctic
Detailed Location	Qikiqtaruk-Herschel Island, Yukon Territory

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