Toolik Lake Permanent Vegetation Plots

Walker D.A. and Barry N. 1991. Toolik Lake permanent vegetation plots: site factors, soil physical and chemical properties, plant species cover, photographs, and soil descriptions. Data Report 48, Department of Energy R4D Program, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

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Environmental Information, Plot SWT-19

Abiotic Data
Date Sampled	Landform	Surficial Geology	Glacial Geology	Surficial Geomorphology	Microsite	Topographic Position	Slope	Aspect	Exposure (Scalar)	Site Moisture (Scalar)	Snow Duration (Scalar)	Stability (Scalar)	Cryoturbation	Height of Microrelief	Thaw Depth	Water Cover	Bare Soil Cover	Rock Cover	Soil Units	Soil Moisure
8/5/89	Hills (including kames and moraines)	Undifferentiated hill slope colluvium	Itkillik I till	Featureless or with < 20% frost scars		Side slope	35°	90°	2.5*	4.0*	4.0*	1.5*	0%	15 cm	>80 cm	0%	0%	1%	Pergelic Cryochrept	3.0*
Biotic Data
Tall Shrub Cover		Low Shrub Cover		Dwarf Shrub Cover	Average Shrub Height		Graminoid Cover	Forb Cover	Lichen Cover	Bryophyte Cover	Horsetail Cover	Disturbance (Scalar)
												Human	Fox	Bear	Caribou	Squirrel	Lemming/vole	Moose	Bird	Insect
0%		5%		60%	5%		+ %	+ %	30%	5%	%				1*	3*

*See Table 3 for values of scalars and descriptive variables, or select value to jump to Table 3.