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Understory Vegetation Biomass from Selected Burned and Unburned sites in Alaska

Metadata Updated: September 18, 2025

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.

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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 April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 18, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 18, 2025
Publisher ORNL_DAAC
Maintainer
Identifier 10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2340
Data Last Modified 2025-09-11
Category Earth Science
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
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Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=Understory_Veg_Biomass_Alaska_2340&ac=true
Old Spatial {"WestBoundingCoordinate":-150.28,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":68.991,"EastBoundingCoordinate":-146.558,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":63.8799},"CARTESIAN"
Program Code 026:000
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 65ebd7802fa80b530d866759f476d8390409b2a0d4bcfed092caec5acb309f9c
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 2016-08-09/2016-08-09

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