Raw moss layer projective cover at 32 sites in Northwester Canada, in Summer 2022 (CA-Land_2022_NWCanada)
Schild, Laura; Kruse, Stefan; Gloy, Josias; Haupt, Sarah; Ewald, Peter
Schild, Laura; Kruse, Stefan; Gloy, Josias; Haupt, Sarah; Ewald, Peter (2023): Raw moss layer projective cover at 32 sites in Northwester Canada, in Summer 2022 (CA-Land_2022_NWCanada) [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.959411

Event: EN22002
ELEVATION: 774.0 m
IGSN: https://doi.org/10.60510/AWFWI02061
LOCATION: Yukon, Canada
CAMPAIGN: CA-Land_2022_NWCanada_Forests (Forest Change Northwest Canada)
BASIS: AWI Arctic Land Expedition
METHOD/DEVICE: Vegetation survey (VEGSUR)
COMMENT: Bog forest wet with spruces and thick moss cover

Start of Event: EN22002
ELEVATION: 774.0 m
IGSN: https://doi.org/10.60510/AWFWI02061
LOCATION: Yukon, Canada
CAMPAIGN: CA-Land_2022_NWCanada_Forests (Forest Change Northwest Canada)
BASIS: AWI Arctic Land Expedition
METHOD/DEVICE: Vegetation survey (VEGSUR)
COMMENT: Bog forest wet with spruces and thick moss cover

Event: EN22002
IGSN: https://doi.org/10.60510/AWFWI02061
CAMPAIGN: CA-Land_2022_NWCanada_Forests (Forest Change Northwest Canada)
BASIS: AWI Arctic Land Expedition
METHOD/DEVICE: Vegetation survey (VEGSUR)
COMMENT: Bog forest wet with spruces and thick moss cover

Event: EN22003
ELEVATION: 822.0 m
LOCATION: Yukon, Canada
COMMENT: Bog forest wet with black spruces and thick moss cover

Start of Event: EN22003
COMMENT: Bog forest wet with black spruces and thick moss cover

COMMENT: Bog forest wet with black spruces and thick moss cover

COMMENT: Very wet forest with open spruce cover, hummock tundra on ground and thick moss cover

Start of Event: EN22004
COMMENT: Very wet forest with open spruce cover, hummock tundra on ground and thick moss cover

LOCATION: Northwest Territories, Canada
COMMENT: Tamarack-black spruce forest with dense Salix shrub understory, no Larix regrowth

COMMENT: Tamarack-black spruce forest with dense Salix shrub understory, no Larix regrowth

LOCATION: Northwest Territories, Canada
COMMENT: Black spruce forest island

COMMENT: Black spruce forest island

COMMENT: Shrub tundra with Alnus

COMMENT: Polygon field plot

COMMENT: Forest regrowth after fire

COMMENT: Tundra with small Salix

COMMENT: Birch forest

COMMENT: Open spruce forest, waterlogged, signs of fire, also trees marked and soil pits present, tree genetic sampled on the 23rd of July on short stop

COMMENT: Open spruce forest with larches in understorey, moss/lichen rich

COMMENT: Very open spruce stands on north slope

COMMENT: Shrub tundra with Betula upreaching

COMMENT: East slope white tall spruce individuals in an ocean of black spruce stands in the lower parts

COMMENT: White spruce single trees on steep slope with avalanche damage

COMMENT: Open spruce forest with tall shrubs

COMMENT: Flat Eriophorum tundra with dwarf shrubs

COMMENT: Slope spruce stand with tall birch shrub growth and patchy landscape with avalanches and pebble fields from the top of the mountain

COMMENT: Dead forest after forest fire with only few ground patches not burned, dwarf shrubs recover

COMMENT: Wet/snowfield slope forest with much Equisetum and flat field and small mounds with spruce most in groups

COMMENT: Open, not too steep tundra with Salix and cryogenic soils

COMMENT: Open forest with single tall white spruces and dense understorey of tall Betula

COMMENT: Old forest with firescars close to burnt area, many trees tilted over, much regrowth

COMMENT: Mixed spruce and poplar forest with tall individuals, fire this year burnt in patches ~50% of the area, transect covering this non-intensive and intensive and non-burnt areas

COMMENT: Mixed spruce forest with relativlely small litter/moss layer, seems wet, next to steep slope (~1m down) to bog and next to lake

COMMENT: Wet depression in forest at slope with thick moss cover and spruce, burnt at least 1998 partly, next to fire scar

COMMENT: Pine forest with mixed spruce and fir regrowth and many dead tree trunks on the ground, likely fire impact one or two times

LOCATION: British Columbia, Canada
COMMENT: Spruce forest with disturbance as many tree trunks on ground, few tall pine and alder, similar to EN22-062 on ground only mosses and few shrubs/herbs

COMMENT: Spruce forest with disturbance as many tree trunks on ground, few tall pine and alder, similar to EN22-062 on ground only mosses and few shrubs/herbs

LOCATION: British Columbia, Canada
COMMENT: Steep slope mountain forest with avalanche fields, Juniperus and damaged trees, mixed species Pinus contorta, Picea glauca and few P. mariana

COMMENT: Steep slope mountain forest with avalanche fields, Juniperus and damaged trees, mixed species Pinus contorta, Picea glauca and few P. mariana

COMMENT: Lowland wet spruce forest with partly willowfields in wet part and many small Picea mariana on upper parts

COMMENT: Mixed species forest with Populus balsamifera as tallest tree, understorey with Picea glauca, P. mariana and Abies lasiocarpa, all shrubs and herbaceaous layer plants have very big leaves and partly distorted growth