Kangerluarsunnguaq
Collected August 2020 (PI: Nathalie Isabelle Chardon)
These data collected August 2020 (PI: Nathalie Isabelle Chardon). Please contact N. I. Chardon (nathalie.chardon_at_gmail.com) for individual quadrat (i.e. 1 m x 1 m) data, which are averaged at the 90 m spatial grid here.
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Metadata for 90 m spatial grid
id: sampling zone and unique 90 m grid identifier
long: WGS84 longitude
lat: WGS84 latitude
x_stere: longitude in Polar Stereographic (EPSG 4326)
y_stere: latitude in Polar Stereographic (EPSG 4326)
date: sampling day.month.year
Species presence [1] or absence [0] at grid level
alcr: Alnus crispa
bena: Betula nana
dila: Diapensia lapponica
emni: Empetrum nigrum
hahy: Harimanella hypoides
lopr: Loiseleuria procumbens
oxpa: Oxycoccus palustre
phca: Phyllodoce caerulea
rhod: Rhododendron sp.
saar: Salix arctica
sagl: Salix glauca
sahe: Salix herbacea
vaul: Vaccinium uliginosum
drin: Dryas integrifolia
thpr: Thymus praecox
Habitat characteristics [% cover]
shrub: all shrub species
gram: graminoids
forb: forbs
bryo: bryophytes
lich: lichens
litt: litter
bare: bare ground
stone: stones (> 2 cm)
org: organic crust
Shrub species height (maximum vegetative height) [mm] and cover (estimated in 1x1 m quadrat) [%]
alcr_c: Alnus crispa cover
alcr_h: Alnus crispa height
bena_c: Betula nana cover
bena_h: Betula nana height
dila_c: Diapensia lapponica cover
dila_h: Diapensia lapponica height
emni_c: Empetrum nigrum cover
emni_h: Empetrum nigrum height
hahy_c: Harimanella hypoides cover
hahy_h: Harimanella hypoides height
lopr_c: Loiseleuria procumbens cover
lopr_h: Loiseleuria procumbens height
oxpa_c: Oxycoccus palustre cover
oxpa_h: Oxycoccus palustre height
phca_c: Phyllodoce caerulea cover
phca_height: Phyllodoce caerulea height
rhod_c: Rhododendron sp. cover
rhod_h: Rhododendron sp. height
saar_c: Salix arctica cover
saar_h: Salix arctica height
sagl_c: Salix glauca cover
sagl_h: Salix glauca height
sahe_c: Salix herbacea cover
sahe_h: Salix herbacea height
vaul_c: Vaccinium uliginosum cover
vaul_h: Vaccinium uliginosum height
drin_c: Dryas integrifolia cover
drin_h: Dryas integrifolia height
Community characteristics
rich_pa: shrub species richness at grid level
rich: shrub species richness averaged across 3 1x1 m sampling quadrats per grid
shan: Shannon diversity (‘vegan’ package; Oksanen et al. 2019)
comp_bena: shrub competition on Betula nana (i.e. summed cover of non-B. nana species) [% cover]
comp_sagl: shrub competition on Salix glauca (i.e. summed cover of non-S. glauca species) [% cover]
ht_cwm: maximum shrub canopy height (i.e. community weighted mean by abundance of maximum shrub height) [mm]
Topography and terrain wetness (calculated from)
tcws: Tasseled Cap Wetness component (Sentinal images)
slope: slope angle (MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Mapping Project Digital Elevation Model v. 1; Howat et al., 2014, 2015) [º]
twi: SAGA wetness index (MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Mapping Project Digital Elevation Model v. 1; Howat et al., 2014, 2015)
asp: aspect (MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Mapping Project Digital Elevation Model v. 1; Howat et al., 2014, 2015) [º]
Downscaled climate (time series 1984 – 2013)
insoljja: average June-August insolation [MJ cm-2 yr-1]
precipmam: cumulative March-May precipitation [mm]
tempcont: yearly maximum – minimum temperature [ºC]
tempmin: yearly minimum temperature [ºC]
precipjja: cumulative June-August precipitation [mm]
tempjja: average maximum June-August temperature [ºC]
tempmax: yearly maximum temperature [ºC]
Additional Information
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Metadata last updated | February 8, 2022 |
| Data last updated | February 9, 2022 |
| Created | April 15, 2021 |
| Format | .csv |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (CC-BY-SA) |
| DOI | |
| Access Restriction | Level: Public |
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| Size | 91.68 KB |