The Alaska Arctic Vegetation Archive (AVA-AK)

Donald A. Walker; Amy L. Breen; Lisa A. Druckenmiller; Lisa W. Wirth; Will Fisher; Martha K. Raynolds; Jozef Šibík; Marilyn D. Walker; Stephan Hennekens; Keith Boggs; Tina Boucher; Marcel Buchhorn; Helga Bültmann; David J. Cooper; Fred J.A. Daniëls; Scott J. Davidson; James J. Ebersole; Sara C. Elmendorf; Howard E. Epstein; William A. Gould; Robert D. Hollister; Colleen M. Iversen; M. Torre Jorgenson; Anja Kade; Michael T. Lee; William H. MacKenzie; Robert K. Peet; Jana L. Peirce; Udo Schickhoff; Victoria L. Sloan; Stephen S. Talbot; Craig E. Tweedie; Sandra Villarreal; Patrick J. Webber; Donatella Zona

doi:10.1127/phyto/2016/0128

The Alaska Arctic Vegetation Archive (AVA-AK)

Donald A. Walker, Amy L. Breen, Lisa A. Druckenmiller, Lisa W. Wirth, Will Fisher, Martha K. Raynolds, Jozef Šibík, Marilyn D. Walker, Stephan Hennekens, Keith Boggs, Tina Boucher, Marcel Buchhorn, Helga Bültmann, David J. Cooper, Fred J.A. Daniëls, Scott J. Davidson, James J. Ebersole, Sara C. Elmendorf, Howard E. Epstein, William A. GouldRobert D. Hollister, Colleen M. Iversen, M. Torre Jorgenson, Anja Kade, Michael T. Lee, William H. MacKenzie, Robert K. Peet, Jana L. Peirce, Udo Schickhoff, Victoria L. Sloan, Stephen S. Talbot, Craig E. Tweedie, Sandra Villarreal, Patrick J. Webber, Donatella Zona

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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. 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	221-229
Number of pages	9
Journal	Phytocoenologia
Volume	46
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1127/phyto/2016/0128
State	Published - Sep 1 2016

Funding

Acknowledgments Funding for the AVA-AK came from the NASA Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) initiative (Grant No. NNX13AM20G). The project was conceived and endorsed by the Flora Working Group of the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), the biodiversity working group of the Arctic Council. Other funding came from the NASA Land Cover and Land-Use Change program (Award No. NNX14AD0G) and the NSF Arctic Science Engineering and Education for Sustainability (ArcSEES) inititiative (Award No. 1233854).

Keywords

Circumpolar
Cluster analysis
Database
Tundra
Turboveg
Vegetation classification

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Walker, D. A., Breen, A. L., Druckenmiller, L. A., Wirth, L. W., Fisher, W., Raynolds, M. K., Šibík, J., Walker, M. D., Hennekens, S., Boggs, K., Boucher, T., Buchhorn, M., Bültmann, H., Cooper, D. J., Daniëls, F. J. A., Davidson, S. J., Ebersole, J. J., Elmendorf, S. C., Epstein, H. E., ... Zona, D. (2016). The Alaska Arctic Vegetation Archive (AVA-AK). Phytocoenologia, 46(2), 221-229. https://doi.org/10.1127/phyto/2016/0128

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