Excel file with metadata and data sheets.
Relative percent cover was measured for plant species on Arctic LTER experimental plots in moist acidic, dry heath and moist non-acidic tundra, and for Sagavanirktok River plots in tussock and heath tundra, North Slope Alaska 2004.
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2004lgcover.xls (923 KB)
Variables
Year
- Label: Year
- Definition: The year of percent cover measurement
- Type: Date/time
- Date format: yyyy
- Missing values: None specified
Site
- Label: Site
- Definition: The site of percent cover measurement
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
Treatment
- Label: Treatment
- Definition: The manipulated treatment
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
Block
- Label: Block
- Definition: The treatment block number
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
Plot
- Label: Plot
- Definition: Sample plot where percent cover was measured
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
Species
- Label: Species
- Definition: Species and cover categories determined on plots as described above
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
Relative Cover
- Label: Relative Cover
- Definition: The percent cover of a given species relative to the total cover of the plot
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: percent
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: Not specified
- Missing values:
- #N/A = Missing or Not Measured