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Abundance of vascular plants measured using point intercept frequency.
The datasets contains point frequency data (which can be converted to biomass estimates) of the following functional groups and species:
* Betula nana
* Broad leaved grasses
* Calamagrostis phragmitoides
* Deciduous dwarf shrubs
* Deciduous vascular cryptogams
* Deschampsia cespitosa
* Empetrum nigrum
* Equisetum sp
* Evergreen dwarf shrubs
* Evergreen non woody
* Green willows
* Grey willows
* Hemiparasites
* Nardus stricta
* Narrow leaved grasses
* Prostrate willows
* Rumex acetosa
* Salix herbacea
* Sedges and rushes
* Small forbs
* Tall forbs
* Vaccinium myrtillus
The dataset includes three different types of files and all files (except the readme) are saved as ;-separated txt-files:
* One data file per year (_YEAR.txt)
* One coordinate file with coordinates of all sites included in the dataset (_coordinates.txt)
* One auxiliary file with information about which sites are included in the dataset and when (_aux.txt)
* One readme file with additional information about the variables included in the study design (_readme.pdf)
The dataset has a two-year embargo, older versions of the dataset are publicly available for download.