For a number of parameters the fieldwork
and the laboratory work is included in work already done on other parameters.
|
Element |
No. of species |
No. of plots |
Frequency
of sampling |
No. of variables per plot |
No. of records per year |
No. of days of fieldwork |
No. of days of lab. work |
|
Vegetation |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reproductive phenology |
6 |
25 |
Weekly |
4 |
2000 |
10 |
2 |
|
Relative vegetation index |
- |
25 |
Weekly |
2 |
2000 |
- |
- |
|
Amount of flowering |
7 |
29 |
Annually |
1 |
116 |
10 |
- |
|
Berry production |
3 |
3 |
Annually |
1 |
12 |
1 |
- |
|
Plant zonation along 8.8 km transect |
100 |
128 |
Every 5th year |
15 |
1280 |
18 |
15 |
|
Plant communities |
100 |
9 |
Every 5th year |
75 |
3600 |
5 |
2 |
|
Cryptogam communities |
50 |
41 |
Every 5th year |
45 |
2500 |
10 |
5 |
|
NDVI (from satellite images) |
- |
13 |
Annually |
13 |
? |
- |
? |
|
Plant community dist. (from satellite images) |
9 |
1 |
Every 5th year |
? |
? |
- |
? |
|
CO2 and water vapour from mesic tundra |
- |
1 |
21 times/sec. |
2? |
135 mil. |
10 |
10 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Arthropods |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Arthropod occurrence and phenology |
401 |
6 |
Weekly |
80 |
4500 |
10 |
70 |
|
Insect predation |
3 |
12 |
Weekly |
2 |
600 |
- |
- |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Birds |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Population density |
16 |
5 |
Annually |
16 |
400 |
10 |
5 |
|
Reproductive phenology |
5 |
1 |
Annually |
10 |
300 |
35 |
5 |
|
Hatching success |
5 |
1 |
Annually |
5 |
60 |
5 |
- |
|
Fledging success |
5 |
1 |
15 times/year |
5 |
50 |
5 |
1 |
|
General species occurrence |
30 |
1 |
Daily |
50 |
2000 |
- |
1 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mammals |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lemming winter and summer population |
1 |
1 |
Annually |
8 |
500 |
25 |
5 |
|
Musk ox occurrence and demography |
1 |
20 |
Daily/weekly |
9 |
500 |
20 |
5 |
|
Musk ox carcasses |
1 |
3 |
Annually |
3 |
10 |
|
|
|
Arctic fox occurrence and reproduction |
1 |
1 |
Every 2nd week |
15 |
30 |
5 |
- |
|
Seal occurrence on fjord ice |
1 |
1 |
Daily |
1 |
30 |
- |
- |
|
General species occurrence |
6 |
1 |
Daily |
12 |
350 |
- |
1 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lake flora and fauna |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Water chemistry |
- |
2 |
3 times/year |
8 |
60 |
3 |
1 |
|
Phytoplankton |
12 |
2 |
3 times/year |
36 |
36 |
- |
4 |
|
Zooplankton |
7 |
2 |
Annually |
10 |
20 |
- |
2 |
|
Fish stocks |
1 |
2 |
Every 5th year |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Abiotic parameters |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Microclimate temperatures in study plots |
- |
21 |
12 times/day |
2 |
90 000 |
2 |
1 |
|
Snow cover and melt in study plots |
- |
35 |
Weekly |
1 |
500 |
- |
- |
|
Spring snow cover (from satellite images) |
- |
13 |
Annually |
1 |
? |
|
|
|
Ice melt on ponds etc. |
- |
10 |
Daily |
1 |
100 |
- |
- |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disturbance etc. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Man days etc. in study sections |
- |
4 |
Daily |
3 |
30 |
- |
- |
|
Aircraft operations in and over study area |
- |
1 |
Daily |
6 |
30 |
- |
- |
|
Manipulative research and take of organisms |
- |
- |
Annually |
- |
- |
- |
- |
|
Discharges |
- |
- |
Annually |
- |
- |
- |
- |
