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CAFF Proceeding Series Report September 2019 Arctic Vegetation Archive and Arctic Vegetation Classification: Proceedings and abstracts from two workshops 30-31 March 2017 21 May 2019 Czech Academy of Science Building NArFU Main Building, Prague Czech Republic Arkhangelsk, Russia Acknowledgements The Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) is a Working Group of the Arctic Council. CAFF Designated Agencies: • Norwegian Environment Agency, Trondheim, Norway • Environment and Climate Change Canada, Ottawa, Canada • Faroese Museum of Natural History, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands (Kingdom of Denmark) • Ministry of the Environment, Helsinki, Finland • Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Reykjavik, Iceland • Ministry of Nature and Environment, Government of Greenland • Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia • Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Stockholm, Sweden • United States Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, Alaska CAFF Permanent Participant Organizations: • Aleut International Association (AIA) • Arctic Athabaskan Council (AAC) • Gwich’in Council International (GCI) • Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) • Russian Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON) • Saami Council This document should be cited as: Walker, D.A., G. Schaepman-Strub, E. Plekhanova, and J. Pierce. (Eds). 2019. The Arctic Vegetation Archive and Arctic Vegetation Classification: Proceedings and abstracts from two workshops. CAFF Proceedings Report. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Akureyri, Iceland. Cover image: Raynolds, M. K., and Raster CAVM Team. (2019). A raster version of the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map (CAVM). Remote Sensing of Environment, 232, 111297. For more information please contact: CAFF International Secretariat Borgir, Nordurslod 600 Akureyri, Iceland Phone: +354 462-3350 Fax: +354 462-3390 www.caff.is Facebook @CAFFS Twitter @CAFFSecretariat Instagram @caff_arctic_biodiversity This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. All photographs are subject to a separate restricted copyright and may not be reproduced without explicit consent, which should be sought directly from the copyright holder. ___ CAFF Designated Area Funding Support for the workshops and publication of the proceedings came from the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) Terrestrial Working Group, the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) Flora Group, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program (Grant No. NNX09AK56G) and the NASA Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) (Grant No. NNX14A0905) and the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Arctic Science Engineering and Education for Sustainability initiative (NSF ArcSEES, Grant No. 1263854). Administrative and travel support came from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA; the University Research Priority Programme (URPP) on Global Change and Biodiversity, University of Zurich, Switzerland; the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia; the Komarov Botanical Institute, RAS., St. Petersburg; and the Institute of Botany, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic. Special thanks the Czech Academy of Science in Prague, CZ, and the Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Arkhangelsk, Russia for hosting the workshops prior to Arctic Science Summit Weeks in 2017 and 2019, and to the CAFF Secretariat for support for publishing this Proceedings Series Report. Table of contents Funding ......................................................................................................................................................... 0 Table of contents .......................................................................................................................................... 1 Summary ...................................................................................................................................................... 3 Part I Proceedings of the Second International Arctic Vegetation Archive and Classification Workshop, Prague, CZ ................................................................................................................................................. 4 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 4 Major points emerging from the panel and group discussions .................................................................... 5 Prague Arctic Vegetation Synthesis Resolution ............................................................................................ 6 Prague Workshop Agenda ............................................................................................................................ 9 Prague Workshop Abstracts ....................................................................................................................... 11 1. The Alaska AVA (AVA-AK) — Amy Breen ........................................................................................ 11 2. Toward a circumpolar AVA — Amy Breen ...................................................................................... 11 3. The European Vegetation Archive (EVA), EuroVegChecklist, and possibilities -Milan Chytrý ........ 12 4. Overview of the AVA in Greenland — Fred Daniëls ........................................................................ 12 5. Yamal and Gydan peninsulas — Ksenia Ermokhina ........................................................................ 13 6. Turboveg v.3 – A gateway to vegetation databases — Stephan Hennekens .................................. 13 7. Update on the AVA in Iceland — Starri Heiðmarsson .................................................................... 14 8. The concept of Arctic local floras and can we apply it more widely? — Olga Khitun .................... 14 9. Large-scale geobotanical mapping of the East European tundra — Igor Lavrinenko ..................... 16 10. Vegetation of the East European tundra: classification and database — Olga Lavrinenko ........... 16 11. Overview of the AVA in Canada — William MacKenzie .................................................................. 17 12. The Canadian Biogeoclimate Ecosystem Classification (BEC) approach — William MacKenzie ..... 18 13. Overview of progress on the AVA in Russia — Nadya Matveyeva ................................................. 18 14. The US National Vegetation Classification and the VegBank plot archive — Robert Peet ............. 19 15. Progress on an Alaska Arctic vegetation classification using the AVA-AK — Jozef Šibík ................ 19 16. JUICE v. 7: A complex expert system language for vegetation classification — Lubomir Tichý ...... 20 17. Introduction to the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Archive and Classification Workshop — Skip Walker ............................................................................................................................................ 20 18. Why an Arctic Vegetation Classification? — Marilyn Walker ......................................................... 21 Prague Workshop Participants ................................................................................................................... 24 Part II Proceedings of the Third International Arctic Vegetation Archive and Classification Workshop, Arkhangelsk, Russia ................................................................................................................................ 26 Background ................................................................................................................................................. 26 Achievements and other outcomes ........................................................................................................... 26 Arkhangelsk Workshop Agenda .................................................................................................................. 28 Arkhangelsk Workshop Abstracts ............................................................................................................... 29 1. The Alaska Arctic Vegetation Archive (AVA-AK): Achievements, status and lessons learned — Amy Breen ............................................................................................................................................... 29 1 2. Tundra plant communities of southeastern Taymyr (south tundra subzone) — Svetlana Chinenko ........................................................................................................................................................ 30 3. About vegetation data in high mountain zone (‘goltzy’ deserts and sub-nival zone) in Kola Peninsula and Svalbard — Alena Danilova ..................................................................................... 32 4. Status and perspective of the Russian Arctic Vegetation Archive — Ksenia Ermokhina ................ 34 5. Carbon assimilation, respiration and allocation in Arctic tundra vegetation: species-specific differences — Olga Gavrichkova .................................................................................................... 37 6. Legacies of boreal forests in Siberia under constraining fires and climate