Forest Composition – Kluane

Forest Composition – Kluane Parks Canada monitors vegetation composition in Kluane National Park and Reserve forests to determine resilience following a spruce bark beetle outbreak of unprecedented severity that occurred in the mid 1990’s. Understanding stand development after this landscape-level disturbance will be critical to assessing its effect on wildlife habitat and the impacts of beetle salvage logging outside of the park. Sampling is done every 5 years in 50 randomly located permanent sample plots in white spruce dominated mature forests. Three sub-measures are assessed: 1) Relative dominance of deciduous basal area, 2) percent cover of berry-bearing shrubs, and 3) ratio of willow clumps to tall spruce regeneration. 2024-12-09 Parks Canada carmen.wong@pc.gc.ca Nature and EnvironmentKluaneYukonforest plotbark beetleDendroctonus rufipennis Forest Composition - Kluane-1CSV https://open.canada.ca/data/dataset/c1f2be4f-d182-4e79-b902-3fac3cc65747/resource/f97f1952-cd88-4b85-9e3d-57924bc86c85/download/kluane_npr_forest_forest-composition_2010-2015_data_1.csv Forest Composition - Kluane-2CSV https://open.canada.ca/data/dataset/c1f2be4f-d182-4e79-b902-3fac3cc65747/resource/4d3e2fc0-e592-4fe6-b62f-6175d1726f39/download/kluane_npr_forest_forest-composition_2010-2015_data_2.csv Forest Composition - Kluane-3CSV https://open.canada.ca/data/dataset/c1f2be4f-d182-4e79-b902-3fac3cc65747/resource/f1966ef6-2363-4259-83dc-d7e63c782aaa/download/kluane_npr_forest_forest-composition_2010-2015_data_3.csv Forest Composition - Kluane - Data DictionaryCSV https://open.canada.ca/data/dataset/c1f2be4f-d182-4e79-b902-3fac3cc65747/resource/5afc8b6f-d760-40da-b078-81b4417898ce/download/kluane_npr_forest_forest_composition_data_dictionary.csv

Parks Canada monitors vegetation composition in Kluane National Park and Reserve forests to determine resilience following a spruce bark beetle outbreak of unprecedented severity that occurred in the mid 1990’s. Understanding stand development after this landscape-level disturbance will be critical to assessing its effect on wildlife habitat and the impacts of beetle salvage logging outside of the park. Sampling is done every 5 years in 50 randomly located permanent sample plots in white spruce dominated mature forests. Three sub-measures are assessed: 1) Relative dominance of deciduous basal area, 2) percent cover of berry-bearing shrubs, and 3) ratio of willow clumps to tall spruce regeneration.

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