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Alaska Arctic AVHRR NDVI Map
The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) is a measure of greenness. NDVI was calculated as: NDVI = (NIR - R) / (NIR + R), where NIR is the spectral reflectance in the... -
Alaska Arctic Bioclimate Subzone Map
Various authors, working with different geobotanical traditions, have divided the Arctic into bioclimatic regions using a variety of terminologies. The origins of these... -
Alaska Arctic Elevation Map
Elevation strongly influences soil moisture and patterns of tundra plant communities. Areas less than 100 m above sea level were separated to show low-elevation plains. Areas... -
Alaska Arctic False Color-Infrared (CIR) Map
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data were obtained from the USGS Global AVHRR 10-day composite data (http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/1KM/1kmhomepage.asp) (Markon et al.... -
Alaska Arctic Floristic Provinces Map
The Arctic has a relatively consistent core ofplant species that occur throughout the circumpolar region, but there is also considerable east to west variation in regional... -
Alaska Arctic Lake Cover Map
Lake cover strongly affects the reflectance of the land surface over large areas of Alaska, and was useful for identifying extensive wetlands. Lake cover was based on the number... -
Alaska Arctic Landscape Map
The landscape physiography map displays regions of plains, hills, mountains, glaciers and lakes. Generally, plains are flat or gently rolling landscapes less than 200 m above... -
Alaska Arctic Vegetation Map
Mapped polygons at 1:7.5 million scale contain many vegetation types. The map portrays the zonal vegetation within each mapped polygon. Zonal sites are areas where the... -
AVA-AK: Arctic Network (Jorgenson et al. 2009)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: Arctic Network. Vegetation sampling for an ecological land survey classification and landcover map was completed for the over 19.5 million... -
AVA-AK: Arrigetch Peaks (Cooper 1983)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: Arrigetch Peaks. The vegetation of Arrigetch Peaks was described and mapped by David J. Cooper for his PhD thesis funded by National Park... -
AVA-AK: ATLAS-1 (Atqasuk, Barrow, Ivotuk, Oumalik) Vegetation Studies (Edward...
Arctic Vegetation Archive-Alaska: ATLAS-1. Vegetation from 15 releves within 8 different grids at Barrow, Atqasuk, Ivotuk and Oumalik were described as part of the NSF-funded... -
AVA-AK: ATLAS-2 Vegetation Studies (Raynolds et al. 2002)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: ATLAS-2 The ATLAS-2 dataset is part of larger NSF-funded Arctic Transition in Land-Atmosphere System (ATLAS) project. ATLAS-2 contains the... -
AVA-AK: Atqasuk Vegetation Plots (Komárková & Webber 1980; Villarreal 2013)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: Atqasuk. The Atqasuk vegetation plots were originally described and mapped by Drs. Vera Komárková and Patrick J. Webber in 1975 as part of... -
AVA-AK: Barrow DOE NGEE-Arctic (Sloan et al. 2014)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: Barrow DOE NGEE-Arctic. As part of a larger study to understand the structure and function of Arctic terrestrial ecosystems response to... -
AVA-AK: Barrow Vegetation Plots (Webber 1978; Villerreal et al. 2013)
Arctic Vegetation Archive-Alaska: Barrow. The Barrow vegetation plots were originally described and mapped by Dr. Patrick J. Webber in 1972 as part of the International... -
AVA-AK: Flux Towers-Zona (Barrow, Atqasuk, Ivotuk) (Davidson et al. 2016a, Da...
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: Flux Towers-Zona: Vegetation plots within the Flux Towers-Zona project eddy covariance tower footprints at Barrow: (three towers) including... -
AVA-AK: Frost Boil Vegetation Plots (Kade et al. 2005)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: Frost Boil Vegetation Plots. The vegetation associated with cryoturbated frost-heave features on the North Slope, Alaska was described by... -
AVA-AK: Happy Valley Vegetation Plots (Walker et al. 1997)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: Happy Valley Vegetation Plots. The Happy Valley research site is located along the Sagavanirktok River in a glaciated valley of the northern... -
AVA-AK: Imnavait Creek Vegetation Plots (Walker et al. 1987a)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: Imnavait Creek Vegetation Plots. Vegetation in the vicinity of the Imnavait Creek field site located in the Upper Kuparuk watershed of the... -
AVA-AK: Kotzebue Vegetation Plots (Hanson 1951)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: Western Alaska Vegetation Plots. Sampling of grassland, marsh and other plant communities across Alaska was completed by Hanson (1951) to...
