The Arctic Vegetation Archive (AVA)
is an international effort to assemble circumpolar Arctic vegetation plot data into a publically accessible web-based archive.
The goal of AVA is to unite and standardize vegetation data from the Arctic that will give researchers a unique opportunity to analyze vegetation at pan-arctic scale. The initiative is endorsed by
the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna of the Arctic Council
and
the International Arctic Science Committee.
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At present, AVA consists of about 30’000 data plots, mostly from Alaska, Canada and Scandinavia, stored in Arctic regional databases. The Russian AVA section is under rapid development. In cooperation with data authors we are working on archiving and harmonizing information on the vegetation composition of the Russian Arctic. Our website presents the Russian AVA data and provides an overview of available data for downloading. Access to the AVA data is diverse: previously published data could be
downloaded directly and unpublished data – after a confirmation given by the dataset author (user agreement signing is needed)
A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS leads the effort. HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics provides technical assistance for the website. Project is supported by RFBR 18-04-01010 А.
Our team
Ksenia Ermokhina
A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS, Moscow
Maria Kurysheva
HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics, Moscow
Vitalii Zemlianskii
University of Zurich, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, Zurich
Denis Korolev
HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics, Moscow
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