Focus

Norway: Adventdalen/Svalbard

Latitude: 78.218017
Longitude: 15.654746

Network: Unaffiliated
Principal investigator: Gus Shaver
PI-affiliated institution: The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Primary IGBP ecosystem type: Snow and Ice
Dominant plant functional type: Snow and Ice
Recent and historic disturbance and management events that may affect this site:
- Temperature extreme: Heat wave or freeze
Flux data collection:
- Start date: April 2003
- End date: September 2009
Flux methods:
- Eddy covariance
Optical data collection:
- Start date: July 2006
- End date: September 2009
Data collection period: Growing season operation only: Variable collected only during the growing season with the reported method
Data scale: Stand
Collection methods: Tower
Types of data collected: information not provided
Publications

- Pettorelli, Nathalie, Sadie J. Ryan, Thomas Mueller, Nils Bunnefeld, Bogumila Jedrzejewsk, Mauricio Lima, and Kyrre Kausrud. "The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI): unforeseen successes in animal ecology." Climate Research 46 (2011): 15-27.
- Raynolds, M. K., D. A. Walker, and H. A. Maier. "NDVI patterns and phytomass distribution in the circumpolar Arctic." Remote sensing of environment 102, no. 3 (2006): 271-281.
- Jupa, Radek, Josef Hájek, Jana Hazdrová, and Miloš Barták. "Interspecific differences in photosynthetic efficiency and spectral reflectance in two Umbilicaria species from Svalbard during controlled desiccation." Czech Polar Rep 2 (2012): 31-41.
- Trnková, Kateřina, Jana Morkusová, Jana Kvíderová, Josef Hájek, and Miloš Barták. "Changes in spectral properties and chlorophyll fluorescence of Nostoc commune colonies from Svalbard during dehydration and supplemental UV-B stress." (2014).