Arctic Council Working Group Vegetation communities and assemblages (Terrestrial)
All plants (Species, life form groups and associations/ communities). Includes monitoring of forage species.
- Ecosystem: Terrestrial
- Species group: Vegetation
- Publications: Arctic Terrestrial Biodiversity Monitoring Plan
Jose Ortega
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| FECs Group | Parameter | Attributes | Priority | Extreme Events | Scale | Complexity | Recurrance | Method | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vegetation communities and assemblages (Terrestrial) | Diversity, composition and abundance | Percent cover by life form or species | Essential | Local | Basic | 2 years | Point intercept/line point intercept | ||
| Vegetation communities and assemblages (Terrestrial) | Diversity, composition and abundance | Canopy gap | Essential | Local | Basic | 2 years | Line intercept | ||
| Vegetation communities and assemblages (Terrestrial) | Diversity, composition and abundance | Alpha diversity | Essential | Local | Basic | 2 years | Plot species list | ||
| Vegetation communities and assemblages (Terrestrial) | Diversity, composition and abundance | Alpha diversity | Essential | Local | Advanced | 2 years | DNA soil sampling | ||
| Vegetation communities and assemblages (Terrestrial) | Diversity, composition and abundance | Alpha diversity | Essential | Local | Basic | 2 years | Plot photograph | ||
| Vegetation communities and assemblages (Terrestrial) | Diversity, composition and abundance | Height of representative life forms | Essential | Local | Basic | 2 years | Mean of 5 representative plants | ||
| Vegetation communities and assemblages (Terrestrial) | Diversity, composition and abundance | Beta/gamma diversity | Essential |
| Basic | Annually | Low resolution remote sensing: | ||
| Vegetation communities and assemblages (Terrestrial) | Diversity, composition and abundance | Beta/gamma diversity | Essential |
| Basic | 10 years | MODIS | ||
| Vegetation communities and assemblages (Terrestrial) | Diversity, composition and abundance | Beta/gamma diversity | Essential | Landscape | Advanced | As required | Med resolution remote sensing: | ||
| Vegetation communities and assemblages (Terrestrial) | Diversity and spatial structure | Pattern: fragmentation/ Connectivity Area: total area by community | Essential |
| Basic | 5 years | Remote sensing | ||
| Vegetation communities and assemblages (Terrestrial) | Productivity | NDVI/ fPAR/ LAI/ EVI | Essential |
| Basic | Annually | Remote sensing | ||
| Vegetation communities and assemblages (Terrestrial) | Productivity | Aboveground biomass | Essential | Local | Advanced | 2 years | Point intercept estimation; photo digital photograph classification (non-destructive); clip plots (destructive) | ||
| Vegetation communities and assemblages (Terrestrial) | Productivity | Total biomass | Essential | Local | Advanced | 2 years | Harvest and root clipping (destructive) | ||
| Vegetation communities and assemblages (Terrestrial) | Productivity | Biomass | Essential |
| Advanced | Annually | Remote sensing | ||
| Vegetation communities and assemblages (Terrestrial) | Productivity | Biomass | Essential | Local | Basic | As required | Indigenous Knowledge: Harvest observations related to food abundance | ||
| Vegetation communities and assemblages (Terrestrial) | Productivity | Biomass | Essential | Local | Basic | 5 years | Tree ring and shrub ring samples | ||
| Vegetation communities and assemblages (Terrestrial) | Phenology | Date of leaf-out (species) | Essential | Local | Basic | Annually | Direct observation | Plot | |
| Vegetation communities and assemblages (Terrestrial) | Phenology | Date of green-up Date of senescence Length of growing season | Essential |
| Advanced | Annually | Remote sensing | ||
| Vegetation communities and assemblages (Terrestrial) | Phenology | Date of flowering (species) | Essential | Local | Basic | Annually | Direct observation | Plot | |
| Vegetation communities and assemblages (Terrestrial) | Phenology | Date of senescence (species) | Essential | Local | Basic | Annually | Direct observation | Plot | |
| Vegetation communities and assemblages (Terrestrial) | Phenology | Amount of plant reproductive parts and newly emerged vegetative parts | Essential | Local | Advanced | Annually | Direct observation | ||
| Vegetation communities and assemblages (Terrestrial) | Phenology | Date of senescence (species) | Essential | Local | Advanced | Annually | Indigneous Knowledge: Morphological observation | ||
| Vegetation communities and assemblages (Terrestrial) | Percent cover by life form or species | Essential | Local | Basic | 2 years | Point intercept/line point intercept |