Focus

Sweden: Abisko-Stordalen

Latitude: 68.35
Longitude: 18.816667

Network: Unaffiliated
Principal investigator: Gus Shaver
Contact: Torbjorn Johansson
PI-affiliated institution: The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Primary IGBP ecosystem type: Woody Savannas
Dominant plant functional type: Grass
Recent and historic disturbance and management events that may affect this site:
- Temperature extreme: Heat wave or freeze
Flux data collection:
- Start date: April 2005
- End date: Ongoing
Flux methods:
- Eddy covariance
Optical data collection:
- Start date: July 2004
- End date: Ongoing
Data collection period: Continuous operation: Variable collected continuously with the reported method
Data scale: Stand
Collection methods: Tower
Types of data collected: ICOS measurements, N2O flux. Leaf temperature (air temperature), Precipitation
Publications

- Rosswall T, Flower-Ellis JG, Johansson LG, Jonsson S, Rydén BE, Sonesson M. Stordalen (Abisko), Sweden. Ecol Bull Statens Naturvetensk Forsk. 1975.
- Schubert P, Lagergren F, Aurela M, Christensen T, Grelle A, Heliasz M, Klemedtsson L, Lindroth A, Pilegaard K, Vesala T, Eklundh L. Modeling GPP in the Nordic forest landscape with MODIS time series data—Comparison with the MODIS GPP product. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2012 Nov 1;126:136-47.
- Svensson T. Increasing ground temperatures at Abisko in Subarctic Sweden 1956-2006. Lunds universitets Naturgeografiska institution-Seminarieuppsatser. 2008.
- Prieto-Blanco A, Disney M, Lewis P, Gómez-Dans J, Ganguly S. Satellite monitoring of disturbances in Arctic ecosystems. In2009 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 2009 Jul 12 (Vol. 3, pp. III-585). IEEE.