Kuparuk River Region/Toolik Lake (Toolik Atlas)

In progress, will be added in 2009.

About the Toolik Atlas

The Toolik Lake/Kuparuk River Basin Hierarchic Geobotanical Atlas was constructed over the course of several funded projects centering on the Imnavait Creek/Toolik Lake areas of the Upper Kuparuk River region. The TLKGA, when combined with CAVM and the AATVM, is a unique resource that spans spatial scales from individual plants to the circumpolar region. The Atlas has a unified system of scales, map legends, map colors, and methodology that makes them particularly useful in efforts to scale plot-based research to regional and circumpolar scales. A wide variety of supplementary information is also in the Atlas, including links to key data sets, photographs, and publications.

Maps

The Toolik Atlas consists of maps of the Arctic Slope, Kuparuk River Basin, Upper Kuparuk River, Toolik Lake region, Toolik Lake 1x1 km grids, Toolik Lake 1x1 m ITEX plots, Imnavait Creek region, Imnavait Creek 1x1 km grids, and Imnavait Creek 1x1 m ITEX plots. Maps of numerous themes, including vegetation, elevation, surficial geomorphology, landforms, and lake cover, are available for most of these regions and scales. At the most detailed scale, the height and species of individual plants are recorded at the top and bottom of the plant canopy at 100 points within 90 1x1 m plots at Toolik Lake and 72 plots at Imnavait Creek.