A synthesized field survey database of vegetation and active-layer properties for the Alaskan tundra (1972–2020)

Studies in recent decades have shown strong evidence of physical and biological changes in the Arctic tundra, largely in response to rapid rates of warming. Given the important implications of these changes for ecosystem services, hydrology, surface energy balance, carbon budgets, and climate feedba...

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Published in:Earth system science data Vol. 16; no. 8; pp. 3687 - 3703
Main Authors: Zhu, Xiaoran, Chen, Dong, Kogure, Maruko, Hoy, Elizabeth, Berner, Logan T., Breen, Amy L., Chatterjee, Abhishek, Davidson, Scott J., Frost, Gerald V., Hollingsworth, Teresa N., Iwahana, Go, Jandt, Randi R., Kade, Anja N., Loboda, Tatiana V., Macander, Matt J., Mack, Michelle, Miller, Charles E., Miller, Eric A., Natali, Susan M., Raynolds, Martha K., Rocha, Adrian V., Tsuyuzaki, Shiro, Tweedie, Craig E., Walker, Donald A., Williams, Mathew, Xu, Xin, Zhang, Yingtong, French, Nancy, Goetz, Scott
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Katlenburg-Lindau Copernicus GmbH 16.08.2024
Copernicus Publications
Subjects:
Archives & records
Biological properties
Carbon budget
Climate feedback
Climate feedbacks
Coastal plains
Data points
Datasets
Ecosystem services
Ecosystems
Energy balance
Fires
Hydrology
Mitigation
Permafrost
Predation
Research facilities
Soil analysis
Soil investigations
Surface energy
Surface energy balance
Surface properties
Surveys
Synthesis
Taiga & tundra
Tundra
Tundra ecology
Tundras
Variables
Vegetation
Alaska
Seward Peninsula
United States > US
Arctic region
North Slope
ISSN:1866-3516, 1866-3508, 1866-3516
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Summary:Studies in recent decades have shown strong evidence of physical and biological changes in the Arctic tundra, largely in response to rapid rates of warming. Given the important implications of these changes for ecosystem services, hydrology, surface energy balance, carbon budgets, and climate feedbacks, research on the trends and patterns of these changes is becoming increasingly important and can help better constrain estimates of local, regional, and global impacts as well as inform mitigation and adaptation strategies. Despite this great need, scientific understanding of tundra ecology and change remains limited, largely due to the inaccessibility of this region and less intensive studies compared to other terrestrial biomes. A synthesis of existing datasets from past field studies can make field data more accessible and open up possibilities for collaborative research as well as for investigating and informing future studies. Here, we synthesize field datasets of vegetation and active-layer properties from the Alaskan tundra, one of the most well-studied tundra regions. Given the potentially increasing intensive fire regimes in the tundra, fire history and severity attributes have been added to data points where available. The resulting database is a resource that future investigators can employ to analyze spatial and temporal patterns in soil, vegetation, and fire disturbance-related environmental variables across the Alaskan tundra. This database, titled the Synthesized Alaskan Tundra Field Database (SATFiD), can be accessed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center (ORNL DAAC) for Biogeochemical Dynamics (Chen et al., 2023: https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2177).
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ISSN:1866-3516
1866-3508
1866-3516
DOI:10.5194/essd-16-3687-2024