Vegetation monitoring along PERMVEG-NET

In the Project PermVegNet (OSS-12) there are 15 sites between 73 and 78°S in which vegetation is monitored every 3 years on a variable number of plots (from 1 to a maximum of 3 for each site) with a 2x2 m size. The vegetation monitoring is performed through the phytosociological method and provides total cover (%), species richness and the dominant species.

Date (Publication): 2026-04-15

Identifier: https://antarcticdatacenter.cnr.it/geonetwork/srv/api/records/dacab694-0600-4c8e-8b84-51ba9b83ac7f

Purpose: Monitoring the vegetation related to different active layer conditions.

The vegetation monitoring allows the assesment of vegetation and biodiversity patterns as their changes are the most sensitive bioindicators of climat change impacts that can trigger several biotic and evironmental feedbacks on antarctic ecosystems as soil chemistry changes, alteration of CO2 and CH4 fluxes.

Status: On going

principalInvestigator

Università dell'Insubria - Mauro Guglielmin

pointOfContact

Università dell'Insubria - Nicoletta Cannone

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Theme

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Bio-geographical regions
Habitats and biotopes
Land cover
Species distribution
Protected sites
Soil

GCMD - Science Keywords

CARBON
DOMINANT SPECIES
PERMAFROST
SOILS
VEGETATION

Keywords

PNRA project

OSS-12 PNRA14_00127

Research Organization

Università dell'Insubria

GCMD - Providers

IT/PNRA

Use limitation: Creative-Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Spatial representation type: Text, table

Denominator: 1

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Begin date: 2022-01-01

End date: 2024-12-31 Now

Unique resource identifier: WGS84

Distribution format

ERDDAP ( 2.24 )

publisher

National Antarctic Data Center - National Antarctic Data Center

originator

Università dell'Insubria - Mauro Guglielmin

OnLine resource: PNRA project ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

OnLine resource: NADC ERDDAP record ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

OnLine resource: Digital Object Identifier (DOI) ( DOI )

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Domain consistency

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Pass: Yes

Statement: The total cover has been obtained by visual estimation with an accuracy of 1% over the all plot. The species richness indicate the total number of lichens and mosses plus the macrocategories of algae and cyanobacteria occurring at each plot. Finally the dominant species are the one or as maximum two showing the highest cover percentage of all the occurring species .

Datasets are initially uploaded to the NADC ERDDAP instance with restricted access (authentication required). They will be made publicly available following publication of the associated paper. For further information, please contact the Point of Contact (PC).