Vegetation inventories from the study: Expansion of deciduous shrubs but not evergreen dwarf shrubs inhibited by reindeer in Scandes mountain range

SND-ID: ECDS 0223

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Description Data and documentation

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Tage Vowles - University of Gothenburg, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences

Description

The dataset contains results from vegetation inventories for 1995-2011 from four locations along the Swedish mountain range, for shrub heath and birch forest vegetation types.

Sites surveyed were Fulufjället, Långfjället, Ritsem and Pulsuvuoma.

At each site there are six 25x25m plots, three surrounded by a fence to keep out herbivores, and three representing grazed conditions.

In each of the plots, twenty 1×1m subplots were randomly chosen, and cover for each species in the 1×1m subplots was visually estimated.

This dataset contains the cover data for each species.

Language

English

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

University of Gothenburg

Responsible department/unit

University of Gothenburg, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences
Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Time period(s) investigated

1995-01-01–2011-12-31

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic description: Fulufjället, Långfjället, Ritsem and Pulsuvuoma.

Topic and keywords

Research area

Environmental Sciences (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Biota (INSPIRE topic categories)

Keywords

herbivory, vegetation cover, species/population interactions, forests, shrubland/scrub, alpine/tundra

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Dataset
Vegetation inventories from the study: Expansion of deciduous shrubs but not evergreen dwarf shrubs inhibited by reindeer in Scandes mountain range

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Citation

Tage Vowles. University of Gothenburg, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences (2018). <em>Vegetation inventories from the study: Expansion of deciduous shrubs but not evergreen dwarf shrubs inhibited by reindeer in Scandes mountain range</em>. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5879/ecds/2017-01-29.1/0">https://doi.org/10.5879/ecds/2017-01-29.1/0</a>

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Tage Vowles - University of Gothenburg, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences

Time period(s) investigated

1995-01-01–2011-12-31

Published: 2018-06-20
Last updated: 2019-06-11