Creator: ORNL_CLOUD
Keywords: Vegetation Species,Active Layer,Periglacial Processes,Soil Moisture/Water Content,Pingo,Vegetation Cover

Data at a Glance

Description

This data set provides vegetation species and vegetation plot data collected between 1983 and 1985 from 293 study plots on 41 pingos on the North Slope of Alaska. The pingos were located within the Arctic Coastal Plain in the Kuparuk, Prudhoe Bay, Kadleroshilik, and Toolik River areas. Specific attributes include dominant vegetation species, cover, soil pH, moisture, and physical characteristics of the plots.

Product Summary

Platforms

FIELD SURVEYS

Instruments

VISUAL OBSERVATIONS

Projects

ABoVE

Spatial Extent

N: 70.4996 S: 69.7116 E: -147.657 W: -149.949

Coordinate System

CARTESIAN

Granule Spatial Representation

CARTESIAN

Temporal Extent

1983-01-01 to 1983-12-31

Data Partner

THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC) (ORNL_DAAC)

Concept ID

C2170970856-ORNL_CLOUD

Data State

COMPLETE

Number of Files/Granules

Processing Level

Published

2017-06-29

Updated

2018-12-31

Science Keywords

Vegetation Species ,

Active Layer ,

Periglacial Processes ,

Soil Moisture/Water Content ,

Pingo ,

Vegetation Cover

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Walker, M. D., & Walker, D. A. (2017). Arctic Vegetation Plots from Pingo Communities, North Slope, Alaska, 1984-1986 (Version 1). ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1507 Date Accessed: 2026-09-29

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Publications Citing This Dataset

Title	Authors	Year Sort ascending	Referenced Datasets
A synthesized field survey database of vegetation and active-layer properties for the Alaskan tundra (19722020)	Zhu, Xiaoran, Chen, Dong, Kogure, Maruko, Hoy, Elizabeth, Berner, Logan T., Breen, Amy L., Chatterjee, Abhishek, Davidson, Scott J., Frost, Gerald V., Hollingsworth, Teresa N., Iwahana, Go, Jandt, Randi R., Kade, Anja N., Loboda, Tatiana V., Macander, Matt J., Mack, Michelle, Miller, Charles E., Miller, Eric A., Natali, Susan M., Raynolds, Martha K., Rocha, Adrian V., Tsuyuzaki, Shiro, Tweedie, Craig E., Walker, Donald A., Williams, Mathew, Xu, Xin, Zhang, Yingtong, French, Nancy, Goetz, Scott	2024	Arctic Vegetation Plots in NPS Arctic Network Parks, Alaska, 2002-2008 Arctic Vegetation Plots at Imnavait Creek, Alaska, 1984-1985 Arctic Vegetation Plots, Poplars, Arctic and Interior AK and YT, Canada, 2003-2005 ABoVE: Tundra Plant Functional Type Continuous-Cover, North Slope, Alaska, 2010-2015 Arctic Vegetation Plots from Pingo Communities, North Slope, Alaska, 1984-1986 Burned and Unburned Field Site Data, Noatak, Seward, and North Slope, AK, 2016-2018 Arctic Vegetation Plots ATLAS Project North Slope and Seward Peninsula, AK, 1998-2000 Field Data on Soils, Vegetation, and Fire History for Alaska Tundra Sites, 1972-2020 Arctic Vegetation Plots for IBP Tundra Biome, Barrow, Alaska, 1972-2010 Arctic Vegetation Plots for NGEE-Arctic at Barrow, Alaska, 2012 Arctic Vegetation Plots in Flux Tower Footprints, North Slope, Alaska, 2014 Arctic Vegetation Plots Legacy Project Barter Island and Point Barrow, Alaska, 1994 ABoVE: Landsat-derived Burn Scar dNBR across Alaska and Canada, 1985-2015 ABoVE: Vegetation Composition across Fire History Gradients on the Y-K Delta, Alaska Arctic Vegetation Plots, Prudhoe Bay ArcSEES Road Study, Lake Colleen, Alaska, 2014 ABoVE: Gridded 30-m Aboveground Biomass, Shrub Dominance, North Slope, AK, 2007-2016 Arctic Vegetation Plots at Toolik Lake, Alaska, 1989 Arctic Vegetation Plots in Willow Communities, North Slope, Alaska, 1997 Arctic Vegetation Plots at Atqasuk, Alaska, 1975, 2000, and 2010 Arctic Vegetation Plots at Oumalik, AK, 1983-1985 Arctic Vegetation Plots in Burned and Unburned Tundra, Alaska, 2011-2012 ABoVE: Soil Moisture and Active Layer Thickness in Alaska and NWT, Canada, 2008-2020 Arctic Vegetation Plots at Happy Valley, Alaska, 1994 Arctic Vegetation Plots at Frost Boil Sites, North Slope, Alaska, 2000-2006 ABoVE: Post-Fire and Unburned Field Site Data, Anaktuvuk River Fire Area, 2008-2017

Arctic Vegetation Plots from Pingo Communities, North Slope, Alaska, 1984-1986