Vegetation recovery, forest composition, and tree-ring width data collected from burned and unburned plots in two Canadian national park reserves during the 2022 and 2023 field seasons. The dataset supports research on forest resilience and reassembly after wildfires in a rapidly warming subarctic region. It was created by author Zhao, S. Violet and is associated with a 2026 publication in the journal Ecosphere.
Use Cases
- Modeling post-wildfire vegetation recovery trajectories based on plot-level recovery data.
- Analyzing shifts in forest composition after fire events using species recruitment data.
- Reconstructing historical growth patterns and climate relationships from tree-ring width measurements.
- Comparing ecological resilience between burned and unburned reference sites.
Strengths
- Data was collected during two dedicated field seasons (2022 and 2023).
- Includes paired burned and unburned control plots for comparative analysis.
- Associated with a detailed methodological publication (Zhao et al., 2026).
Limitations
- Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download from the ReadMe file.
Provenance
- Source
- Borealis Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Field data collection from plots in Nahanni National Park Reserve and Nááts’įhch’oh National Park Reserve.
- Time Range
- 2022-2023
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-13 04:11:11; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Nahanni National Park Reserve and Nááts’įhch’oh National Park Reserve, Northwest Territories, Canada