Description
Glacier retreat in Svalbard exposes new terrain that undergoes ecological succession. Vegetation development was investigated along the postglacial chronosequence of Midtre Lovénbreen near Ny-Ålesund, building on sites first studied by Hodkinson et al. (2003) and revisited after ~25 years of accelerated warming. Vegetation cover, soil moisture, and leaf traits of Salix polaris (specific leaf area, SLA, and carbon-to-nitrogen ratio, C:N) were recorded across six forefield sites. The findings support successional dynamics described two decades earlier and emphasize the influence of ongoing climate warming on community assembly in the High Arctic.
Data Records
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is The University Centre in Svalbard. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: a7861b94-4103-4aed-82bf-3c1951032ee1. The University Centre in Svalbard publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Norway.
Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > VEGETATION COVER; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY DYNAMICS > PLANT SUCCESSION; EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS > GLACIERS > GLACIER MELT; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > NITROGEN; Samplingevent; Observation
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Project Data
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| Title | UNIS AB-201 |
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| Identifier | https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q119442230 |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=midtre_lovenbreen_vegetation_chronosequence_2025 |
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