Ground layer above-ground biomass of 20 sites of Yakutia from 2018 - Accumulated data for 15m²-radius plots

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Field investigations were performed selecting locations to include the variety of present boreal forest stands between 113-130 °E, eastwards of the city Yaktusk until westernmost sites close to Lake Khamra. To provide a full assessment of the current state of aboveground biomass the ground vegetation layer was additionally sampled. Fifteen-meter radius sample plots (sites) were demarcated in the most homogeneous locations. Heterogeneity was accommodated by roughly assorting vegetation into one to two vegetation types per sampling plot. Within each area of roughly estimated vegetation types we selected one 0.5 x 0.5 m subplot for representative ground-layer above-ground biomass (ABG) harvesting (major taxa and other). For moss and lichen AGB harvesting inside 0.5 x 0.5 m subplots representative 0.1 x 0.1 m subplots were chosen. All ground-layer vegetation AGB assessments were calculated for the fifteen-meter radius plot in g/m² for each sample plot. The present trees and tree-shape growing shrub species were included only up to heights of <40 cm.This dataset contains the accumulated data for the complete 15 m²-radius plot.

All data was collected by scientists from Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research and University of Potsdam, Germany, The Institute for Biological problems of the Cryolithozone, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian branch, and The Institute of Natural Sciences, North-Eastern Federal University of Yakutsk, Yakutsk, Russia.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.954510
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.954524
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.2312/BzPM_0734_2019
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.954510
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Creator Kruse, Stefan ORCID logo; Bernhardt, Nadine ORCID logo; Brieger, Frederic ORCID logo; Schulte, Luise ORCID logo; Stuenzi, Simone Maria (ORCID: 0000-0002-6071-289X); Shevtsova, Iuliia ORCID logo; Pestryakova, Luidmila A ORCID logo; Zakharov, Evgenii S; Herzschuh, Ulrike ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2023
Funding Reference European Research Council https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000781 Crossref Funder ID 772852 doi:10.3030/772852 Glacial Legacy on the establishment of evergreen vs. summergreen boreal forests
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 146 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (112.959W, 59.971S, 129.619E, 63.815N); Central Yakutia
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-07-25T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z