This folder contains the text, tables and figures for the data report on the   
Canadian Transect conducted in July and August of 1999.  Below is the table of 
contents for the data report.  Following that is the list of files included in 
the Cfolder.  For more information, go to: http://www.geobotany.uaf.edu

1999 CANADIAN TRANSECT FOR THE CIRCUMPOLAR ARCTIC VEGETATION MAP
DATA REPORT:  Participants, sampling scheme, site descriptions, soil 
descriptions and properties, plant species cover, and photographs 

Grizelle Gonz‡lez, William A. Gould, and Martha K. Raynolds

In support of the following research:
Arctic Climate Change, Substrate, and Vegetation, OPP-9908829, 7/1/99 - 6/30/03, 
D.A. Walker, PI, W.A. Gould and H. Epstein, Co-PIs 

Contact:  Bill Gould, Research Ecologist
International Institute of Tropical Forestry
USDA Forest Service
PO Box 25000
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00928-2500

Telephone:787-766-5335 ext. 114, 
fax:787-766-6302

Table of Contents
Page
Introduction									3
Method
	Site descriptions							5
	Data collection (relevŽs)
		Vegetation							8
		Soils								9
Data sets								       10
Acknowledgements							       67
References				    				       68
Appendix I:  Photographs of relevŽ vegetation and soils				69


List of Figures

Figure 1.	Group participants.						4
Figure 2.	Color-infrared AVHRR composite of the Canadian Arctic north	
		of treeline.							7
Figure 3.	Sampling scheme for determining variation in vegetation along
		mesotopographic gradients,					8
Figure 4.	Characteristic vegetation communities along a 
		mesotopographic sequence in each of the five subzones of the 
		Canadian Arctic.					       11


List of Tables

Table 1.	Students and researchers participating in the 1999 Canadian 
		Transect	 						4
Table 2.	Location and dates of sites along the 1999 Canadian 
		Transect route							6
Table 3.	Preliminary vegetation classification of relevŽs               12
Table 4.	Subzone and preliminary community name of relevŽs	       13	
Table 5.	RelevŽ environmental data		             	       19
Table 6.	RelevŽ life form cover data				       22
Table 7.	RelevŽ soils data					       4
Table 8.	RelevŽ vascular species cover data			       26
Table 9.	RelevŽ bryophyte species cover data			       3
Table 10.	RelevŽ lichen species cover data			       53
Table 11.	Sample site description data sheet including the legend for 
		environmental variables.				       65
Table 12.	Sample relevŽ data sheet including the Braun-Blanquet cover
		 scale.							       66


Files:
Text_p1-11		Microsoft  Word 97-98 document	1.9MB
Table_3		Microsoft Excel 97/98 workbook	32K
Table_4 		Microsoft Excel 97/98 workbook	48K
Table_5		Microsoft Excel 97/98 workbook	64K
Table_6		Microsoft Excel 97/98 workbook	48K
Table_7		Microsoft Excel 97/98 workbook	32K
Table_8		Microsoft Excel 97/98 workbook	96K
Table_9		Microsoft Excel 97/98 workbook	80K
Table_10		Microsoft Excel 97/98 workbook	64K
Table_11		Microsoft Excel 97/98 workbook	32K
Table_12		Microsoft Excel 97/98 workbook	16K
Text_p67-69		Microsoft  Word 97-98 document	48K
Releve_photos	Microsoft  Word 97-98 document	24.6MB	

Note for those working with the Excel table data:  There are not the exact same
number of relevŽs in each table.  Some relevees didn't have certain informatin
...some relevŽs were split into an "a" and "b".  It means one table can't e 
pasted into another with the assumption that each column has data from the same 
relevŽ.