BOREAS TF-11: Fen Vegetation Leaf Area Index Measurements

BOREAS TF-11 team collected Leaf Area Index measurements at the SSA Fen site during the 1995 growing season. The data categorize LAI for six plant groups: total, Carex spp., Betula pumila, Menyanthes trifoliata, Salix spp., and other vascular plants. These measurements complement tower flux data for studying boreal ecosystem processes.

Use Cases

• Modeling carbon and water fluxes based on species-specific leaf area.
• Analyzing seasonal vegetation growth patterns in a boreal fen wetland.
• Calibrating remote sensing LAI estimates with ground-truth measurements.
• Studying plant community composition and biomass partitioning.

Strengths

• Provides species-level LAI breakdown for six distinct plant categories.
• Collected as part of the established BOREAS project, a major ecological field campaign.
• Data temporally focused on a full growing season (1995).

Limitations

• Column names and exact row counts are unspecified across all sources.
• Conflicting 'last updated' metadata between platforms (1995 vs. 2026).
• Documentation is sparse, with no detailed sampling methodology provided.

Provenance

Source

BOREAS TF-11 team, NASA

Collection Method

Field measurements collected to complement tower flux data.

Time Range

1995 growing season

Freshness

2026-03-13 07:56:23.185959

Geography

SSA Fen site (BOREAS Southern Study Area)