Arctic Vegetation and Soil Data from Alaska ATLAS Project

Arctic Vegetation Plots ATLAS Project North Slope and Seward Peninsula, AK, 1998-2000 provides environmental, soil, and vegetation data from six study sites in Alaska. The dataset includes attributes like dominant species, biomass, soil chemistry, moisture, leaf area index, NDVI, topography, and plant cover abundance. It was collected by the Arctic Transition in Land-Atmosphere System (ATLAS) project, with sampling occurring from 1998 to 2000.

Use Cases

• Analyzing relationships between soil chemistry (e.g., soil moisture, nutrients) and vegetation community structure.
• Modeling biomass distribution and plant cover abundance across different Arctic tundra and shrubland sites.
• Calibrating remote sensing indices like NDVI and LAI with ground-truth measurements from specific plots.
• Studying topographic and elevation influences on dominant vegetation species in the North Slope and Seward Peninsula.

Strengths

• Data covers six distinct geographic sites across the North Slope and Seward Peninsula of Alaska.
• Includes a multi-year time range from 1998 to 2000 for observing seasonal or interannual variation.
• Attributes span multiple ecological dimensions: vegetation species, biomass, soil chemistry, moisture, and topography.

Limitations

• Exact row count, file size, and complete column list are unavailable from all sources.
• Sources conflict on the 'last updated' metadata, with dates ranging from 2000 to 2026.

Provenance

Source

Arctic Transition in Land-Atmosphere System (ATLAS) project, likely associated with ORNL_CLOUD.

Collection Method

Field sampling at study sites.

Time Range

1998-2000

Freshness

2026-03-13 14:52:04.693291

Geography

North Slope (Barrow, Atqasuk, Oumalik, Ivotuk) and Seward Peninsula (Council, Quartz Creek), Alaska, USA.