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Vegetation transect surveys from 2022 and 2023 within the Kougarok Fire Complex (KFC) on the Seward Peninsula in Alaska, USA
Abstract
This dataset contains recorded vegetation classifications from 16 transects within the Kougarok Fire Complex (KFC) area in Alaska. Each transect is 50 meters long, and vertical vegetation profiles were sampled every 50cm, resulting in 101 points recorded for each transect. At each point, a vertical rod was inserted in the ground and any living plant or substrate touching the rod was recorded from top to bottom. For each plant, the plant functional type (PFT) and species name was identified and recorded. The file "flmd.xlsx" provides file level meta data for all other included files. The file (transect_metadata.csv) contains descriptive information about each of the 16 transects (field observation year and date; latitude and longitude GPS measurements of the 0, 25, and 50 meter points; and whether that area burned during the 1971, 1997, 2002, 2015, and/or 2019 fires). The files (PFT_names.csv and species_names.csv) map the short hand labels for the plant function type (PFT) and species used in the transect surveys to their full names. The remaining files are named for each transect, and contain the results of the vegetation survey for each transect. These files contain the plant functional type and the species identified at each point. Points alongmore »
- Publication Date:
- Other Number(s):
- NGA503
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- Research Org.:
- Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE) Arctic
- Sponsoring Org.:
- U.S. DOE > Office of Science > Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > ALPINE/TUNDRA > ARCTIC TUNDRA; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > VEGETATION COVER; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > VEGETATION SPECIES; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LAND USE/LAND COVER; ESS-DIVE CSV File Formatting Guidelines Reporting Format; ESS-DIVE File Level Metadata Reporting Format
- OSTI Identifier:
- 2571843
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.15485/2571843
Citation Formats
Brown, Colette, Kingdon, Cora, Breen, Amy, and Torn, Margaret. Vegetation transect surveys from 2022 and 2023 within the Kougarok Fire Complex (KFC) on the Seward Peninsula in Alaska, USA. United States: N. p., 2025.
Web. doi:10.15485/2571843.
Brown, Colette, Kingdon, Cora, Breen, Amy, & Torn, Margaret. Vegetation transect surveys from 2022 and 2023 within the Kougarok Fire Complex (KFC) on the Seward Peninsula in Alaska, USA. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.15485/2571843
Brown, Colette, Kingdon, Cora, Breen, Amy, and Torn, Margaret. 2025.
"Vegetation transect surveys from 2022 and 2023 within the Kougarok Fire Complex (KFC) on the Seward Peninsula in Alaska, USA". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.15485/2571843. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2571843. Pub date:Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 UTC 2025
@article{osti_2571843,
title = {Vegetation transect surveys from 2022 and 2023 within the Kougarok Fire Complex (KFC) on the Seward Peninsula in Alaska, USA},
author = {Brown, Colette and Kingdon, Cora and Breen, Amy and Torn, Margaret},
abstractNote = {This dataset contains recorded vegetation classifications from 16 transects within the Kougarok Fire Complex (KFC) area in Alaska. Each transect is 50 meters long, and vertical vegetation profiles were sampled every 50cm, resulting in 101 points recorded for each transect. At each point, a vertical rod was inserted in the ground and any living plant or substrate touching the rod was recorded from top to bottom. For each plant, the plant functional type (PFT) and species name was identified and recorded. The file "flmd.xlsx" provides file level meta data for all other included files. The file (transect_metadata.csv) contains descriptive information about each of the 16 transects (field observation year and date; latitude and longitude GPS measurements of the 0, 25, and 50 meter points; and whether that area burned during the 1971, 1997, 2002, 2015, and/or 2019 fires). The files (PFT_names.csv and species_names.csv) map the short hand labels for the plant function type (PFT) and species used in the transect surveys to their full names. The remaining files are named for each transect, and contain the results of the vegetation survey for each transect. These files contain the plant functional type and the species identified at each point. Points along the transect with more than one species at that point are listed vertically from top to bottom in these files.The Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments: Arctic (NGEE Arctic), was a research effort to reduce uncertainty in Earth System Models by developing a predictive understanding of carbon-rich Arctic ecosystems and feedbacks to climate. NGEE Arctic was supported by the Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research.The NGEE Arctic project had two field research sites: 1) located within the Arctic polygonal tundra coastal region on the Barrow Environmental Observatory (BEO) and the North Slope near Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska and 2) multiple areas on the discontinuous permafrost region of the Seward Peninsula north of Nome, Alaska.Through observations, experiments, and synthesis with existing datasets, NGEE Arctic provided an enhanced knowledge base for multi-scale modeling and contributed to improved process representation at global pan-Arctic scales within the Department of Energy's Earth system Model (the Energy Exascale Earth System Model, or E3SM), and specifically within the E3SM Land Model component (ELM).},
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