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Fostering research, education, and collaboration on biological conservation and natural resource management in Alaska and the Arctic

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Plant Community Ecology

Vegetation ecologists at ACCS monitor vegetation status and trends, classify plant communities, and investigate plant community composition relative to environmental gradients. Vegetation monitoring enables the efficient management of natural resources and helps inform the decisions of natural resource planners. We continue to develop vegetation monitoring protocols and field methods in cooperation with state and federal agencies for a variety of ecoregions in Alaska. Our ongoing monitoring projects throughout boreal and arctic Alaska are providing data to answer questions related to landscape and ecosystem change. These data are available, along with other ground-based, extensive ecological survey data throughout Alaska, in the Alaska Vegetation Plots Database. ACCS also provides a provisional list of plant associations and their attendant conservation status ranks that have been formally described for Alaska.

ecologists monitoring vegetation on North Slope
ecologist noting geophysical characteristics in mountains

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  • Home
  • About
    • Staff, Faculty, and Students
    • Support Our Program
    • Opportunities
    • Contact
    • Our Partners
  • Research
    • Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
    • Invasive Species
    • Aquatic Ecology
    • Vegetation
    • Wildlife
    • Landscape Ecology
  • Data and Services
    • Data Catalog
    • Conservation Data Portals
    • Code Repository
    • Services
  • Publications