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Title: The Alaska Arctic Vegetation Archive (AVA-AK)

Abstract

The Alaska Arctic Vegetation Archive (AVA-AK, GIVD-ID: NA-US-014) is a free, publically available database archive of vegetation-plot data from the Arctic tundra region of northern Alaska. The archive currently contains 24 datasets with 3,026 non-overlapping plots. Of these, 74% have geolocation data with 25-m or better precision. Species cover data and header data are stored in a Turboveg database. A standardized Pan Arctic Species List provides a consistent nomenclature for vascular plants, bryophytes, and lichens in the archive. A web-based online Alaska Arctic Geoecological Atlas (AGA-AK) allows viewing and downloading the species data in a variety of formats, and provides access to a wide variety of ancillary data. We conducted a preliminary cluster analysis of the first 16 datasets (1,613 plots) to examine how the spectrum of derived clusters is related to the suite of datasets, habitat types, and environmental gradients. Here, we present the contents of the archive, assess its strengths and weaknesses, and provide three supplementary files that include the data dictionary, a list of habitat types, an overview of the datasets, and details of the cluster analysis.

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  1. Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK (United States)
  2. Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava (Slovak Republic)
  3. HOMER Energy, Boulder, CO (United States)
  4. Alterra, Wageningen, (The Netherlands)
  5. Univ. of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK (United States)
  6. Univ. of Munster, Munster (Germany)
  7. Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States)
  8. Univ. of Sheffield, South Yorkshire (United Kingdom)
  9. Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO (United States)
  10. NEON, Inc., Boulder, CO (United States)
  11. Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
  12. US Forest Service, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (United States)
  13. Grand Valley State Univ., Alendale, MI (United States)
  14. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  15. Alaska Ecoscience, Fairbanks, AK (United States)
  16. Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States)
  17. B.C. Ministry of Forests, Smithers, BC (Canada)
  18. Univ. of Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany)
  19. Univ. Walker, Clifton (United Kingdom)
  20. US Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, AK (United States)
  21. Univ. of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX (United States)
  22. Univ. of Sheffield, South Yorkshire (United Kingdom); San Diego State Univ., San Diego, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1327760
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Phytocoenologia
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Phytocoenologia; Journal ID: ISSN 0340-269X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; circumpolar; cluster analysis; database; tundra; Turboveg; vegetation classification

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Walker, Donald, Breen, Amy, Druckenmiller, Lisa, Wirth, Lisa W., Fisher, Will, Raynolds, Martha K., Sibik, Jozef, Walker, Marilyn D., Hennekens, Stephan, Boggs, Keith, Boucher, Tina, Buchhorn, Marcel, Bultmann, Helga, Cooper, David, Daniels, Fred J. A., Davidson, Scott J., Ebersole, James J., Elmendorf, Sara C., Epstein, Howard E., Gould, William A., Hollister, Robert D., Iversen, Colleen M., Jorgenson, M. Torre, Kade, Anja, Lee, Michael T., MacKenzie, William H., Peet, Robert K., Peirce, Jana L., Schickhoff, Udo, Sloan, Victoria L., Talbot, Stephen S., Tweedie, Craig E., Villarreal, Sandra, Webber, Patrick J., and Zona, Donatella. The Alaska Arctic Vegetation Archive (AVA-AK). United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1127/phyto/2016/0128.
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Walker, Donald, Breen, Amy, Druckenmiller, Lisa, Wirth, Lisa W., Fisher, Will, Raynolds, Martha K., Sibik, Jozef, Walker, Marilyn D., Hennekens, Stephan, Boggs, Keith, Boucher, Tina, Buchhorn, Marcel, Bultmann, Helga, Cooper, David, Daniels, Fred J. A., Davidson, Scott J., Ebersole, James J., Elmendorf, Sara C., Epstein, Howard E., Gould, William A., Hollister, Robert D., Iversen, Colleen M., Jorgenson, M. Torre, Kade, Anja, Lee, Michael T., MacKenzie, William H., Peet, Robert K., Peirce, Jana L., Schickhoff, Udo, Sloan, Victoria L., Talbot, Stephen S., Tweedie, Craig E., Villarreal, Sandra, Webber, Patrick J., & Zona, Donatella. The Alaska Arctic Vegetation Archive (AVA-AK). United States. https://doi.org/10.1127/phyto/2016/0128
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Walker, Donald, Breen, Amy, Druckenmiller, Lisa, Wirth, Lisa W., Fisher, Will, Raynolds, Martha K., Sibik, Jozef, Walker, Marilyn D., Hennekens, Stephan, Boggs, Keith, Boucher, Tina, Buchhorn, Marcel, Bultmann, Helga, Cooper, David, Daniels, Fred J. A., Davidson, Scott J., Ebersole, James J., Elmendorf, Sara C., Epstein, Howard E., Gould, William A., Hollister, Robert D., Iversen, Colleen M., Jorgenson, M. Torre, Kade, Anja, Lee, Michael T., MacKenzie, William H., Peet, Robert K., Peirce, Jana L., Schickhoff, Udo, Sloan, Victoria L., Talbot, Stephen S., Tweedie, Craig E., Villarreal, Sandra, Webber, Patrick J., and Zona, Donatella. Tue . "The Alaska Arctic Vegetation Archive (AVA-AK)". United States. https://doi.org/10.1127/phyto/2016/0128. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1327760.
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@article{osti_1327760,
title = {The Alaska Arctic Vegetation Archive (AVA-AK)},
author = {Walker, Donald and Breen, Amy and Druckenmiller, Lisa and Wirth, Lisa W. and Fisher, Will and Raynolds, Martha K. and Sibik, Jozef and Walker, Marilyn D. and Hennekens, Stephan and Boggs, Keith and Boucher, Tina and Buchhorn, Marcel and Bultmann, Helga and Cooper, David and Daniels, Fred J. A. and Davidson, Scott J. and Ebersole, James J. and Elmendorf, Sara C. and Epstein, Howard E. and Gould, William A. and Hollister, Robert D. and Iversen, Colleen M. and Jorgenson, M. Torre and Kade, Anja and Lee, Michael T. and MacKenzie, William H. and Peet, Robert K. and Peirce, Jana L. and Schickhoff, Udo and Sloan, Victoria L. and Talbot, Stephen S. and Tweedie, Craig E. and Villarreal, Sandra and Webber, Patrick J. and Zona, Donatella},
abstractNote = {The Alaska Arctic Vegetation Archive (AVA-AK, GIVD-ID: NA-US-014) is a free, publically available database archive of vegetation-plot data from the Arctic tundra region of northern Alaska. The archive currently contains 24 datasets with 3,026 non-overlapping plots. Of these, 74% have geolocation data with 25-m or better precision. Species cover data and header data are stored in a Turboveg database. A standardized Pan Arctic Species List provides a consistent nomenclature for vascular plants, bryophytes, and lichens in the archive. A web-based online Alaska Arctic Geoecological Atlas (AGA-AK) allows viewing and downloading the species data in a variety of formats, and provides access to a wide variety of ancillary data. We conducted a preliminary cluster analysis of the first 16 datasets (1,613 plots) to examine how the spectrum of derived clusters is related to the suite of datasets, habitat types, and environmental gradients. Here, we present the contents of the archive, assess its strengths and weaknesses, and provide three supplementary files that include the data dictionary, a list of habitat types, an overview of the datasets, and details of the cluster analysis.},
doi = {10.1127/phyto/2016/0128},
journal = {Phytocoenologia},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue May 17 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Tue May 17 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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