Description
Data Records
The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 186 records.
2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Anthonisen H R, Sandbaumhüter M, Schmidt J, Risa I, Wogsland Z A (2026). Vegetation mapping and leaf traits of Salix polaris along a postgacial chronosequence. Version 1.3. The University Centre in Svalbard. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=vegetation_mapping_and_leaf_traits_of_salix_polaris_along_a_postglacial_chronosequence&v=1.3
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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: f4a71efb-5547-4d6c-bec3-d2d94bf77d01. The University Centre in Svalbard publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Norway.
Keywords
Samplingevent
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Geographic Coverage
Midtre-Lovébreen - moraine
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [78.892, 12.072], North East [78.909, 12.112] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2026-08-11 / 2026-08-15 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | UNIS AB-201 |
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| Identifier | https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q119442230 |
The personnel involved in the project:
Sampling Methods
Vegetation mapping was done by a gridded quadrat with 16 inner squares and 25 intercepts, and the point-intercept method was used for estimating cover and abundance. Leaves of Salix polaris were collected at all sites with a high enough abundace for analyses, i.e. minimum 50 leaves in total at each site. The leaves were collected along transects inside the sites, parallell to the glacier-front. This resulted in representative data for SLA- and C/N-ratio-estimations for each site.
| Study Extent | The sites were visited on the 11th, 12th and 15th of August 2026, two sites each day. |
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Method step description:
- Specific Leaf Area (SLA) of Salix polaris was calculated by transects of each site. The leaves were scanned with Epson Perfection xxxxx for measuring leaf area, and dried at 70 degrees Celsius for 72 hours, before weighing. Leaves from all transects within a site were mixed and devided into eppendorf-tubes together with a tungsten-bead, for grinding in a Retsch mixer mill. The samples were then transfered into tin cups to be further processed by an organic elemental analyzer (vario EL cube). This analyzer measured nitrogen- and carbon-percentage, out of which C/N-ratio for all samples were calculated.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | f4a71efb-5547-4d6c-bec3-d2d94bf77d01 |
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| https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=vegetation_mapping_and_leaf_traits_of_salix_polaris_along_a_postglacial_chronosequence |