Focus

Greenland: Zackenberg

Latitude: 74.783333
Longitude: -20.933333

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 2007
- End date: September 2015
Flux methods:
- Eddy covariance
Optical data collection:
- Start date: July 2006
- End date: Ongoing
Data collection period: Intermittent: Variable collected intermittently with the reported method; Periodic operation: Variable collected part of the year with the reported method
Data scale: Stand
Collection methods: Tower
Types of data collected: NDVI, PAR, PYR, Optical sampling
Publications

- Shaver G. ITEX circumarctic CO2 flux survey data from Toolik, Alaska; Abisko, Sweden; Svalbard, Norway; Zackenberg, Northeast Greenland; Anaktuvuk River Burn, Alaska and Barrow, Alaska 2003–2009. Long Term Ecological Research Network.
- Callaghan TV, Björn LO, Chernov Y, Chapin T, Christensen TR, Huntley B, Ims RA, Johansson M, Jolly D, Jonasson S, Matveyeva N. Effects of changes in climate on landscape and regional processes, and feedbacks to the climate system. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment. 2004 Nov;33(7):459-68
- Christensen TR, Friborg T, Sommerkorn M, Kaplan J, Illeris L, Søgaard H, Nordstrøm C, Jonasson S. Trace gas exchange in a high‐Arctic valley: 1. Variationsin CO2 and CH4 Flux between tundra vegetation types. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 2000 Sep;14(3):701-13.
- Hansen BU, Sigsgaard C, Rasmussen L, Cappelen J, Hinkler J, Mernild SH, Petersen D, Tamstorf MP, Rasch M, Hasholt B. Present-day climate at Zackenberg. Advances in ecological research. 2008 Jan 1;40:111-49.