Seven functional plant traits and population densities measured across wet and mesic habitats on Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada. The data spans a wide soil water content gradient and includes plots with over 12 years of protection from goose grazing. The dataset was authored by Vincent Maire and harvested from the Borealis Dataverse.
Use Cases
- Modeling plant community composition based on functional traits and soil moisture.
- Analyzing the impact of long-term goose grazing exclusion on plant populations.
- Studying trait-environment relationships across a soil water content gradient.
- Investigating plant population density variations between wet and mesic Arctic habitats.
Strengths
- Includes seven distinct functional plant traits, providing a multi-dimensional view of plant strategies.
- Spans a wide soil water content gradient, capturing environmental variability.
- Contains long-term experimental data from plots protected from grazing for over 12 years.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
Provenance
- Source
- Borealis Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Field measurements of plant traits and population densities.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-23 04:10:31; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada