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Projects Long-term Vegetation Monitoring Brief Description: This experiment, which has been in place in the Barrow since 1994 and at Atqasuk since 1996, has provided new insights on flower and growth responses to temperature. The project examines the response of plants in perminanent plots over time. It also includes a warming experiment. This research is a contribution to the US NSF Arctic Observatory Network (AON) Program and the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX). ITEX sites are located at 37 locations in 13 countries including all the Arctic Nations. ITEX uses small, passive, clear-plastic, open-top chambers to warm the tundra. The chambers raise the daily temperature of the tundra plant canopy by 1.5 to 2.0 ºC which is in the range predicted by global climate simulations. Measures Collected at all Sites: Research Design:
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