Rare vegetation, species of concern

Ecosystem: Terrestrial
Species group: Vegetation
Publications: Arctic Terrestrial Biodiversity Monitoring Plan

Braya linearis
Jose A. Sencianes

FECs Group	Parameter	Attributes	Priority	Extreme Events	Scale	Complexity	Recurrance	Notes
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Diversity, composition and abundance	Percent cover by life form or species	Essential	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Local	Basic	2 years
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Diversity, composition and abundance	Canopy gap	Essential	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Local	Basic	2 years
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Diversity, composition and abundance	Alpha diversity	Essential	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Local	Basic	2 years
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Diversity, composition and abundance	Alpha diversity	Essential	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Local	Advanced	2 years
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Diversity, composition and abundance	Alpha diversity	Essential	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Local	Basic	2 years
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Diversity, composition and abundance	Height of representative life forms	Essential	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Local	Basic	2 years
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Diversity, composition and abundance	Beta/gamma diversity	Essential	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Landscape Regional	Basic	Annually
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Diversity, composition and abundance	Beta/gamma diversity	Essential	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Landscape Regional	Basic	10 years
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Diversity, composition and abundance	Beta/gamma diversity	Essential	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Landscape	Advanced	As required
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Diversity and spatial structure	Pattern: fragmentation/ Connectivity Area: total area by community	Essential	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Landscape Regional	Basic	5 years
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Productivity	NDVI/ fPAR/ LAI/ EVI	Essential	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Landscape Regional	Basic	Annually
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Productivity	Aboveground biomass	Essential	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Local	Advanced	2 years
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Productivity	Total biomass	Essential	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Local	Advanced	2 years
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Productivity	Biomass	Essential	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Landscape Regional	Advanced	Annually
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Productivity	Biomass	Essential	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Local	Basic	As required
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Productivity	Biomass	Essential	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Local	Basic	5 years
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Phenology	Date of leaf-out (species)	Essential	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Local	Basic	Annually	Plot
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Phenology	Date of green-up Date of senescence Length of growing season	Essential	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Regional Pan-Arctic	Advanced	Annually
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Phenology	Date of flowering (species)	Essential	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Local	Basic	Annually	Plot
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Phenology	Date of senescence (species)	Essential	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Local	Basic	Annually	Plot
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Phenology	Amount of plant reproductive parts and newly emerged vegetative parts	Essential	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Local	Advanced	Annually
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Phenology	Date of senescence (species)	Essential	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Local	Advanced	Annually
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Abundance	Presence/ absence Number of individuals/population size	Essential	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Local	Basic	10 years
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Abundance	How many populations, locations (meta-populations)	Recommended	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Landscape	Basic	As required
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Abundance	Abundance of individuals within a populations over time	Recommended	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Local	Basic	As required
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Diversity genetic, neutral	Gene flow effective population size migration rate and directionality population growth rates bottlenecks evolutionary potential	Recommended	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Regional	Advanced	As required
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Health	Presence/ absence of population with condition (disease, parasites, insects)	Recommended	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Local	Basic	As required
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Health	% of population with condition	Recommended	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Local	Basic	As required
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Health	Community observed changesin plant health	Recommended	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Local	Basic	As required
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Spatial structure	Pattern: fragmentation/connectivity	Recommended	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Landscape	Basic	5 years
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Spatial structure	Area: total area by community	Recommended	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Landscape	Basic	5 years
Rare vegetation, species of concern	Spatial structure	Distribution of communities	Recommended	Population outbreaks Low precipitation (drought)	Landscape	Basic	5 years

Rare vegetation, species of concern

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