Circumpolar Arctic vegetation: A hierarchic review and roadmap toward an internationally consistent approach to survey, archive and classify tundra plot data

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Walker, D A ^a   Daniels F J A ^b   Alsos, I ^c   Bhatt, U S ^a   Breen, A L ^a   Buchhorn, M ^a   Bultmann H ^b   Druckenmiller, L A ^a   Edwards, M E ^d   Ehrich, D ^c   Epstein, H E ^e   Gould, W A ^f   Ims, R A ^c   Meltofte, H ^g   Raynolds, M K ^a   Sibik, J ^h   Talbot, S S ⁱ   Webber, P J ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^f US Forest Service International Institute of Tropical Forestry   (United States)

^g AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^h INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

ⁱ U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^j MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Arctic; Biodiversity; Circumpolar; Climate change; Remote sensing; Vegetation classification

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLIMATE CHANGE; PLANTS (BOTANY); REMOTE SENSING; SURVEYS;

ARCTIC; CIRCUMPOLAR; CURRENT STATUS; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; PLANT BIOMASS; PLANT COMMUNITIES; SATELLITE BASED OBSERVATIONS; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

VEGETATION;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATABASE; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; PLANT COMMUNITY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; TUNDRA;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85014488007     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/5/055005     Document Type: Article

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