Entry_ID: ARCSS081
Entry_Title: Canadian Transect of Soils and Vegetation for the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map
Group: Data_Set_Citation
   Dataset_Creator: Grizelle Gonzalez, William A. Gould, and Martha K. Raynolds
   Dataset_Title: Canadian Transect of Soils and Vegetation for the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map
   Dataset_Release_Date: 2002-01-01
   Dataset_Release_Place: Boulder, Colorado USA
   Dataset_Publisher: NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
   Online_Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/arcss081.html
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Group: Personnel
   Role: Investigator
   First_Name: Donald (Skip)
   Middle_Name: A.
   Last_Name: Walker
   Email: ffdaw@uaf.edu
   Phone: 1 907 474-2460 
   Group: Contact_Address
      Address: University of Alaska at Fairbanks
      Address: Institute of Arctic Biology
      Address: Institute of Arctic Biology
      Address: University of Alaska Fairbanks
      City: Fairbanks
      Province_or_State: AK
      Postal_Code: 99775-6780
      Country: USA
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Group: Personnel
   Role: Investigator
   First_Name: William
   Middle_Name: A.
   Last_Name: Gould
   Group: Contact_Address
      Address: Biology Program

      Address: University of Minnesota

      Address: Itasca, MN

      Address: USA
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Group: Personnel
   Role: Investigator
   First_Name: Grizelle
   Last_Name: Gonzalez
   Group: Contact_Address
      Address: Northern Ecosystem Analysis and Mapping Laboratory

      Address: Institute of Arctic Biology

      Address: University of Alaska Fairbanks
      City: Fairbanks
      Province_or_State: AK
      Postal_Code: 99775
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Group: Personnel
   Role: Investigator
   First_Name: Martha
   Middle_Name: K.
   Last_Name: Raynolds
   Group: Contact_Address
      Address: University of Alaska Fairbanks
      City: Fairbanks
      Province_or_State: AK
      Postal_Code: 99775
   End_Group
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Group: Personnel
   Role: Technical Contact
   First_Name: NSIDC
   Last_Name: User Services
   Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
   Phone: 1 303 492-6199 x
   Fax: 1 303  492-2468 x
   Group: Contact_Address
      Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center
      Address: CIRES, 449 UCB
      Address: University of Colorado
      City: Boulder
      Province_or_State: CO
      Postal_Code: 80309-0449
      Country: USA
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Biological Classification
   Term: Plants
   Variable_Level_1: Lichens
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Biological Classification
   Term: Plants
   Variable_Level_1: Mosses/Hornworts/Liverworts
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Biosphere
   Term: Terrestrial Ecosystems
   Variable_Level_1: Alpine/Tundra
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Biosphere
   Term: Terrestrial Ecosystems
   Variable_Level_1: Wetlands
   Variable_Level_2: Lacustrine Wetlands
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Biosphere
   Term: Terrestrial Ecosystems
   Variable_Level_1: Wetlands
   Variable_Level_2: Riparian Wetlands
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Biosphere
   Term: Vegetation
   Variable_Level_1: Indigenous Vegetation
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Biosphere
   Term: Vegetation
   Variable_Level_1: Vegetation Cover
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Biosphere
   Term: Vegetation
   Variable_Level_1: Vegetation Species
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Land Surface
   Term: Soils
   Variable_Level_1: Calcium
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Land Surface
   Term: Soils
   Variable_Level_1: Nitrogen
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Land Surface
   Term: Soils
   Variable_Level_1: Organic Matter
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Land Surface
   Term: Soils
   Variable_Level_1: Permafrost
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Land Surface
   Term: Soils
   Variable_Level_1: Phosphorus
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Land Surface
   Term: Soils
   Variable_Level_1: Potassium
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Land Surface
   Term: Soils
   Variable_Level_1: Soil Chemistry
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Land Surface
   Term: Soils
   Variable_Level_1: Soil Classification
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Land Surface
   Term: Soils
   Variable_Level_1: Soil Moisture/Water Content
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Land Surface
   Term: Soils
   Variable_Level_1: Soil pH
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Land Surface
   Term: Soils
   Variable_Level_1: Soil Texture
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Group: Parameters
   Category: EARTH SCIENCE
   Topic: Land Surface
   Term: Topography
   Variable_Level_1: Landforms
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Keyword: Amund Ringnes Island
Keyword: ARCSS081
Keyword: Arctic Canada
Keyword: Arctic System Science Data Coordination Center
Keyword: Arctic Transitions in the Land-Atmosphere System
Keyword: ATLAS
Keyword: Axel Heiberg Island
Keyword: Black Top Ridge
Keyword: Braun-Blanquet
Keyword: Bryophytes
Keyword: Bunde Fiord
Keyword: Canadian Arctic
Keyword: Canadian Arctic Soils
Keyword: Canadian arctic transect
Keyword: Canadian Arctic Vegetation
Keyword: Canadian Transect
Keyword: Cape Levvel
Keyword: Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map
Keyword: Climatic Gradient
Keyword: Cornwallis Island
Keyword: Daring Lake
Keyword: Dry Tundra
Keyword: Dwarf Shrubs
Keyword: Dwarf Shrub Tundra
Keyword: East Wind Lake
Keyword: Ellesmere Island
Keyword: environmental data
Keyword: Eureka
Keyword: Expedition Fiord
Keyword: Field Description
Keyword: Floristic Surveys
Keyword: Hadley Bay
Keyword: Hare Ridge
Keyword: Land Surface
Keyword: lichens
Keyword: Mesic Tundra
Keyword: mosses
Keyword: Mount Pelly
Keyword: National Science Foundation
Keyword: NSF
Keyword: NSIDC
Keyword: OPP9732076
Keyword: OPP-9732076
Keyword: Photographs
Keyword: Phytogeographic Subzones
Keyword: Plant Communities
Keyword: Plant Species Cover
Keyword: Releve Plots
Keyword: Releves
Keyword: Resolute Bay
Keyword: Riparian Habitats
Keyword: Sedges
Keyword: Snowbeds
Keyword: Soil Analyses
Keyword: Soil Bulk Density
Keyword: Soil Chemistry
Keyword: Soil Descriptions
Keyword: Soil Moisture
Keyword: Soil Organic Matter Content
Keyword: Soil Particle Size Analysis
Keyword: Soil pH
Keyword: Soil Pits
Keyword: Soil Properties
Keyword: Soil Taxonomy
Keyword: Soil Texture
Keyword: Stratigrapher River
Keyword: Substrates
Keyword: Texture Estimates
Keyword: Thanhieser
Keyword: Toposequences
Keyword: Tuktu River
Keyword: Tundra Ecosystems
Keyword: Tundra Vegetation
Keyword: Vascular Plants
Keyword: Vegetational
Keyword: Vegetation Classification
Keyword: Vegetation Communities
Keyword: Vegetation Cover
Keyword: Vegetation Description
Keyword: Vegetation Ecology
Keyword: Vegetation Height
Keyword: Victoria Island
Keyword: Wet Tundra
Sensor_Name: CAMERAS
Sensor_Name: PH METERS
Sensor_Name: SOIL SAMPLER
Source_Name: GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS
Source_Name: GROUND STATIONS
Group: Temporal_Coverage
   Start_Date: 1999-07-19
   Stop_Date: 1999-09-11
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Data_Set_Progress: complete
Group: Spatial_Coverage
   Southernmost_Latitude: 64
   Northernmost_Latitude: 80
   Westernmost_Longitude: -112
   Easternmost_Longitude: -85
   Minimum_Altitude: 2 meters
   Maximum_Altitude: 200 meters
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Group: Location
   Location_Category: CONTINENT
   Location_Type: NORTH AMERICA
   Location_Subregion1: CANADA
   Detailed_Location: CANADIAN ARCTIC
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Group: Location
   Location_Category: GEOGRAPHIC REGION
   Location_Type: ARCTIC
   Detailed_Location: CANADIAN ARCTIC
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Group: Location
   Location_Category: GEOGRAPHIC REGION
   Location_Type: POLAR
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Project: ARCSS/LAII/ATLAS > Arctic System Science/LAII/Arctic Transitions in the Land-Atmosphere System
Data_Set_Language: English
Originating_Center: ARCSS/ADCC
Group: Data_Center
   Data_Center_Name: NSIDC > National Snow and Ice Data Center
   Data_Center_URL: http://nsidc.org
   Group: Personnel
      Role: Data Center Contact
      First_Name: NSIDC
      Last_Name: User Services
      Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
      Phone: 1 303 492-6199 
      Fax: 1 303  492-2468 
      Group: Contact_Address
         Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center
         Address: CIRES, 449 UCB
         Address: University of Colorado
         City: Boulder
         Province_or_State: CO
         Postal_Code: 80309-0449
         Country: USA
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Group: Data_Center
   Data_Center_Name: NSIDC_ARCSS > NSIDC Arctic System Science Data Coordination Center
   Data_Center_URL: http://nsidc.org/arcss/
   Group: Personnel
      Role: Data Center Contact
      First_Name: NSIDC ARCSS
      Last_Name: User Services
      Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
      Phone: 1 303 492-6199 
      Fax: 1 303  492-2468 
      Group: Contact_Address
         Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center
         Address: CIRES, 449 UCB
         Address: University of Colorado
         City: Boulder
         Province_or_State: CO
         Postal_Code: 80309-0449
         Country: USA
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Group: Distribution
   Distribution_Media: FTP
   Distribution_Size: 0.6 KB
   Distribution_Format: ASCII Text
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Group: Distribution
   Distribution_Media: FTP
   Distribution_Size: 32 KB
   Distribution_Format: ASCII Text
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Group: Reference

   Gonzalez, G., W.A. Gould, and M.K. Raynolds. 2000. 1999 Canadian Transect for 
   the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map.  Data report, Northern Ecosystem 
   Analysis and Mapping Laboratory, Fairbanks, AK. Digital version available from 
   the National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO. Identifier no. ARCSS081.

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Group: Summary

   This report summarizes environmental, vegetation, and soil data collected from 
   116 releves along a 2000-km transect from Amund Ringnes, Axel Heiberg, and 
   Ellesmere Islands in the northern Canadian Arctic to a site at the southern 
   edge of the Canadian tundra.  Data include sample site descriptions (e.g., 
   thaw depths, aspect, and surficial geology); soil pH, chemistry, and texture; 
   and vascular, bryophyte, and lichen species cover.

   Scientists involved in the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Mapping (CAVM) 
   project, with the help of undergraduate students enrolled in a University of 
   Minnesota field course, conducted this north-south transect study of the 
   Canadian Arctic to investigate large-scale climate-related variations in 
   vegetation.

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Group: Related_URL
   Group: URL_Content_Type
      Type: VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
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   URL: http://nsidc.org/fgdc/
   Description: Frozen Ground Data Center
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Metadata_Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata_Version: 9.7
DIF_Creation_Date: 2002-01-01
Last_DIF_Revision_Date: 2012-09-18
DIF_Revision_History: deleted catalog page & ftp URLs in Related URL field