Balsam Poplar Vegetation Plots in Arctic Alaska and Yukon

From 2003 to 2005, this dataset contains vegetation cover and environmental data from 32 balsam poplar plots in Arctic and interior boreal forests of Alaska and the Yukon. It provides species percent cover using the Braun-Blanquet scale and includes plot-level moisture, topographic, and soil data. The data is associated with ORNL_CLOUD.

Use Cases

• Analyzing species composition and percent cover of balsam poplar and associated vegetation using the Braun-Blanquet scale.
• Modeling relationships between vegetation cover and environmental factors like soil moisture and topographic position.
• Studying the influence of slope, aspect, and soil characteristics on boreal forest plot structure.
• Assessing vegetation community changes across the Arctic Slope and interior boreal forest regions.

Strengths

• Provides detailed species-level vegetation cover data for 32 distinct field plots.
• Includes a multi-year temporal coverage from 2003 to 2005 for longitudinal context.
• Covers a specific geographic transect from the Arctic Slope to interior boreal forests of Alaska and the Yukon.

Limitations

• Exact row count, column names, and dataset size are unspecified across all sources.
• Conflicting last updated dates: one source reports 2005-08-17, while others report 2026-03-13, suggesting potential metadata inconsistency.

Provenance

Source

ORNL_CLOUD

Collection Method

Field data collected from vegetation plots.

Time Range

2003 to 2005

Freshness

2026-03-13 14:52:21.742596

Geography

Arctic Slope of Alaska and interior boreal forests of Alaska and the Yukon, Canada.