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    • Understory Vegetation Biomass from Selected Burned and Unburned sites in Alaska

    Metadata Updated: September 27, 2024

    This dataset provides measurements of vegetation biomass from 11 locations across Alaska during 2016 to 2018. Vegetation was harvested from plots that were located at the end of previously established 30-m transects at each site, except at one site where plots were randomly selected. Vascular vegetation was clipped from 50 cm x 50 cm plots, and non-vascular vegetation was clipped from 25 cm x 25 cm plots. All harvested vegetation was sorted by functional group or by species where identification was possible. The sorted vegetation was dried and then weighed to determine biomass. Locations were selected to investigate fire disturbance, to span the range of permafrost regions from continuous to sporadic, and to cover vegetation types from boreal forests, tussock tundra, upland willow/herbaceous scrub, and lowland fen and wet tundra sites across Alaska. The data are provided in comma separated values (CSV) format.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date July 3, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date September 27, 2024

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

    Other Data Resources

    Graphic Preview

    Image showing the understory vegetation at a boreal forest site in interior Alaska (Hess Creek Unburned).

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date July 3, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date September 27, 2024
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C3140252003-ORNL_CLOUD
    Data First Published 2024-06-30
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2024-07-01
    Category ABoVE, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation Minions, C., S. Ludwig, and S. Natali. 2024. Understory Vegetation Biomass from Selected Burned and Unburned sites in Alaska. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2340
    Datagov Dedupe Retained 20240927173828
    Graphic Preview Description Image showing the understory vegetation at a boreal forest site in interior Alaska (Hess Creek Unburned).
    Graphic Preview File https://daac.ornl.gov/ABOVE/guides/Understory_Veg_Biomass_Alaska_Fig1.jpg
    Harvest Object Id 87195e79-7797-4b05-8d12-6c4685334ed6
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2340
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 9f58f491f724dbf66e2294e264e9cfba21357c1b0672ba73be6b4db34d8e51fa
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z/2018-07-11T23:59:59Z

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