887a5e91-93be-4f5d-8674-b2d22a1ae8ae English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:22:54 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Root and leaf phenology of Scandinavian subarctic plant communities, 2008-2009 2015-12-02 publication 1442850989501 CEH:EIDC: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/887a5e91-93be-4f5d-8674-b2d22a1ae8ae 10.5285/887a5e91-93be-4f5d-8674-b2d22a1ae8ae doi: Sloan, V.L., Fletcher, B.J., Phoenix, G.K. (2015). Root and leaf phenology of Scandinavian subarctic plant communities, 2008-2009. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/887a5e91-93be-4f5d-8674-b2d22a1ae8ae This dataset consists of measurements of leaf and root growth, species abundance and soil temperature made in ten subarctic plant communities located at the Arctic Biosphere Atmosphere Coupling at Multiple Scales (ABACUS) project sites near to Abisko, Sweden, and Kevo, Finland. The data were collected during the summer growing seasons (May to September) in 2008 and 2009, and comprise field survey measurements, temperature logs and values derived from analyses of mini-rhizotron images. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/887a5e91-93be-4f5d-8674-b2d22a1ae8ae Sloan, V. University of Bristol v.l.sloan@bristol.ac.uk pointOfContact Sloan, V.L. University of Bristol v.l.sloan@bristol.ac.uk originator Sloan, V.L. University of Bristol v.l.sloan@bristol.ac.uk author Fletcher, B.J. University of Sheffield b.j.fletcher@gmail.com author Phoenix, G.K. University of Sheffield g.k.phoenix@sheffield.ac.uk author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher unknown Habitats and Biotopes theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication forest shrub tundra GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Abisko Sweden Kevo Finland GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation Phenology leaf phenology root phenology subarctic birch forest tall shrub dwarf shrub sedge community composition soil temperature seasonal dynamics otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Sloan, V.L., Fletcher, B.J., Phoenix, G.K. (2015). Root and leaf phenology of Scandinavian subarctic plant communities, 2008-2009. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/887a5e91-93be-4f5d-8674-b2d22a1ae8ae textTable English utf8 biota 2008-04-01 2009-09-30 18.434 27.594 67.521 69.571 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/887a5e91-93be-4f5d-8674-b2d22a1ae8ae.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/887a5e91-93be-4f5d-8674-b2d22a1ae8ae Download the data Download a copy of this data download dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 At each field site, eight replicate 1 x 1 m plots were established in five subarctic vegetation communities representative of the wider landscape, including birch forest, forest margin, tall and dwarf shrub tundra communities and sedge lawns. Each plot had a mini-rhizotron (0.3x0.7 m length of 70 mm diameter clear acrylic tubing) installed at 45o and shoots of the dominant plant species tagged with numbered cable ties. In 2008 in Kevo and 2009 in Abisko, length of all tagged shoots was recorded approximately weekly during the growing season, and a weekly 360o scan of all mini-rhizotrons taken with a CID-600 root scanner (CID Bioscience, Camas, Washington, USA). Root length was obtained from the scanned images by manually digitising visible roots using MapInfo Professional v. 8.0 software (Pitney Bowes Business Insight, New York, USA). Percentage cover of all species was estimated once at peak biomass in early August by a single surveyor, using a 0.75 x 0.75 m quadrat placed over each mini-rhizotron. Soil temperature at 5 cm depth was obtained from one TinyTag data logger (Gemini Data Loggers (UK) Ltd, Chichester, UK) per community, recording at 30 minute intervals. Additional soil temperature measurements at 5, 10, 15 and 20 cm depth were made weekly using a hand-held probe (Testo Ltd, Alton, UK). For further details of all measurements and data processing steps, see supporting documentation.