Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Gwich'in Settlement Area
Tags: tree growth, tree core sampling, treeline, tree line
| Principal Investigator: | Kruse, Stefan (3) |
| Licence Number: | 17535 |
| Organization: | Alfred Wegener Institute |
| Licensed Year(s): |
2024
2023
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| Issued: | May 27, 2024 |
| Project Team: | Stefan Kruse, Sarah Haupt, Josias Gloy, Laura Schild, Birgit Heim, Veronika Döpper, Antonia Ludwig, Jacob Schladebach |
Objective(s): To monitor vegetation changes in current climate warming for simulating past and future dynamics with an individual-based spatially explicit model (LAVESI).
Project Description: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5947. The aim is to monitor vegetation changes in current climate warming for simulating past and future dynamics with an individual-based spatially explicit model (LAVESI). Therefore, our intentions are: 1. assessing stand inventories at diverse bioclimatic and environmental settings by a space-for-time approach 2. gathering remote sensing data for local and regional upscaling across environmental gradients 3. year-round monitoring at key sites to disentangle the complex permafrost-soil-vegetation-climate interaction Compared to the fieldwork performed last year, this time we focus mainly on the forest structure.Sampling is therefore reduced to two main non-destructive methods: (1) analysis of the forest structure by measuring vegetation height and microtopography with measuring tapes and active layer sticks; (2) ground and airborne surveys for multispectral and LiDAR 3D point cloud generation of vegetation and microtopography over short transects covering gradients of land surface cover; Social media channels will be used for documentation during field work and the institute website for informing the public about the project and the outcome. A field report will be published in Reports on Polar and Marine Research (https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/publications/reports-on-polar-and-marine-research.html); The research results will be presented at international conferences. All data collected during the project period and the involved field work will be publicly available on the platform PANGAEA (https://www.pangaea.de/); Manuscripts based on the research will be priorily submitted to Open Access journals to allow public accession. Attached you can also find the report of the last years field campaign. The fieldwork for this study will be conducted from: July 10 - July 20, 2024
