Biocomplexity of Patterned Ground: Mould Bay Expedition

A team of 24 people from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and other organizations worked at Inuvik, NorthWest Territories (NWT) and Mould Bay, Prince Patrick Island, NWT during the period 12-27 July 2004, as part of the "Biocomplexity associated with biogeochemical cycles in arctic frost-boil ecosystems" project. This year's work was the third in a 5-year project. The main objective of the research is to investigate the properties of small patterned-ground ecosystems along a climate gradient from the coldest parts of the Arctic to the northern boreal forest. The team is studying earth hummocks, non-sorted circles, small non-sorted polygons, and turf hummocks - how they form, how they vary with climate and substrate, and their role in total ecosystem functions.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2004-07-12T00:00:00Z
    End:  2004-07-27T23:59:59Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2004-07-12T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2004-07-27T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 76.23611
Bounding Box South Lat 76.22611
Bounding Box West Long -119.30694
Bounding Box East Long -119.29611
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Spatial Resolution N/A
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Documentation #1 : mouldbay2004_dr0503.txt

106.235 : is a companion to dataset 106.202
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Author Corinne Munger
Martha K. Raynolds ORCID icon
Anja Kade
Donald A. (Skip) Walker ORCID icon
Publisher NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory
Publication Date 2009-04-21T13:26:44
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Not Assigned
Alternate Identifier 106.202
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category geoscientificInformation
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-08-01T18:01:56Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::106.202
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Corinne Munger, Martha K. Raynolds, Anja Kade, Donald A. (Skip) Walker. (2009). Biocomplexity of Patterned Ground: Mould Bay Expedition. 1.0. NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory. https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/106.202. Accessed 23 January 2026.

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