Dwarf birch growth change - Torngat Mountains

Dwarf birch growth change - Torngat Mountains The Torngat National Park monitors the growth and extent of dwarf birch along elevational transects at 5 locations to understand how shrubs are changing the tundra vegetation in the park and sub-arctic regions. Each transect contains 3 or 4 plots, at lower slope, mid slope, and upper slope. Cover, height, growth increment and browsing of Dwarf Birch, and also soil temperature, are recorded at each plot. 2024-05-12 Parks Canada darroch.whitaker@pc.gc.ca Nature and EnvironmentDwarf birchextentelevational transectscoverheightsoil temperatureLabrador Dwarf birch growth change - Torngat Mountains - DataCSV https://open.canada.ca/data/dataset/95e34b0d-5142-41a3-8a38-a8ab85507fb0/resource/4a4ae0ff-e742-4390-97b0-7089ed68b0d4/download/torngatmountains_np_dwarf_birch_2011-2017_data.csv Dwarf birch growth change - Torngat Mountains - Data dictionaryCSV https://open.canada.ca/data/dataset/95e34b0d-5142-41a3-8a38-a8ab85507fb0/resource/1ffe3804-dca5-446e-a418-c392759cf99a/download/torngatmountains_np_dwarf_birch_2011-2017_dictionary.csv

The Torngat National Park monitors the growth and extent of dwarf birch along elevational transects at 5 locations to understand how shrubs are changing the tundra vegetation in the park and sub-arctic regions. Each transect contains 3 or 4 plots, at lower slope, mid slope, and upper slope. Cover, height, growth increment and browsing of Dwarf Birch, and also soil temperature, are recorded at each plot.

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