The Sagwon patterned-ground grids are located at the northern edge of the rolling foothills, at the boundary with the flatter coastal plain. This is also the boundary between Subzones E and D, and between the acidic tundra to the south and the nonacidic tundra to the north. There are three 10 x 10 m grids, one with acidic tussock-sedge, erect dwarf-shrub, moss vegetation (MAT), and two grids in the nonacidic nontussock-sedge, prostrate dwarf-shrub, moss tundra (MNT). The two MNT grids are similar.
The Sagwon patterned-ground grids are located at the northern edge of the rolling foothills, at the boundary with the flatter coastal plain. This is also the boundary between Subzones E and D, and between the acidic tundra to the south and the nonacidic tundra to the north. There are three 10 x 10 m grids, one with acidic tussock-sedge, erect dwarf-shrub, moss vegetation (MAT), and two grids in the nonacidic nontussock-sedge, prostrate dwarf-shrub, moss tundra (MNT). The two MNT grids are similar.
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Links to Biocomplexity of Patterned Ground Sites
Happy Valley, Sagwon, Franklin Bluffs, Deadhorse, West Dock, Howe Island
Map Themes:
Vegetation, thaw depth, snow depth, NDVI
References
Raynolds, M. K., D. A. Walker, and H. A. Maier. 2005. Plant community-level mapping of arctic Alaska based on the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map. Phytocoenologia 35:821-848. doi 10.1127/0340-269X/2005/0035-0821
