The Alaska Arctic Vegetation Archive (AVA-AK)
- Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK (United States)
- Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava (Slovak Republic)
- HOMER Energy, Boulder, CO (United States)
- Alterra, Wageningen, (The Netherlands)
- Univ. of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK (United States)
- Univ. of Munster, Munster (Germany)
- Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States)
- Univ. of Sheffield, South Yorkshire (United Kingdom)
- Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO (United States)
- NEON, Inc., Boulder, CO (United States)
- Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
- US Forest Service, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (United States)
- Grand Valley State Univ., Alendale, MI (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Alaska Ecoscience, Fairbanks, AK (United States)
- Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States)
- B.C. Ministry of Forests, Smithers, BC (Canada)
- Univ. of Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany)
- Univ. Walker, Clifton (United Kingdom)
- US Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, AK (United States)
- Univ. of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX (United States)
- Univ. of Sheffield, South Yorkshire (United Kingdom); San Diego State Univ., San Diego, CA (United States)
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.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1327760
- Journal Information:
- Phytocoenologia, Journal Name: Phytocoenologia; ISSN 0340-269X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Web of Science
Circumpolar Arctic vegetation: a hierarchic review and roadmap toward an internationally consistent approach to survey, archive and classify tundra plot data
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journal | May 2016 |
Rescuing Valuable Arctic Vegetation Data for Biodiversity Models, Ecosystem Models and a Panarctic Vegetation Classification
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journal | March 2013 |
TURBOVEG, a comprehensive data base management system for vegetation data
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journal | February 2001 |
Comparing traits of native and alien plants: Can we do better?
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journal | September 2017 |
sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses
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journal | March 2019 |
Arctic Vegetation Mapping Using Unsupervised Training Datasets and Convolutional Neural Networks
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journal | January 2019 |
sPlot : a new tool for global vegetation analyses | text | January 2019 |
sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses
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text | January 2019 |
The Second International Arctic Vegetation Archive and Classification Workshop, Prague, Czech Republic, 30–31 March, 2017
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journal | September 2017 |
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