Canadian mapping team on the left, CAVM team on the right, background of vegetation map, landscape map, substrate chemistry map, and floristic provinces map.

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Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map

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Numerous talented and knowledgeable individuals helped make this map a reality. The list below names some of the more prominent ones.

CAVM Mapping Team
Canada: William A. Gould, Lawrence C. Bliss, Sylvia A. Edlund, Martha K. Raynolds, Stephen C. Zoltai
Greenland: Fred J. A. Daniels, Christian Bay, Maike Wilhelm
Iceland: Eythór Einarsson, Gudmundur Gundjónsson
Norway/Svalbard: Arve Elvebakk, Bernt E. Johansen
Russia: Galina V. Ananjeva, Dmitry S. Drozdov, Adrian E. Katenin, Sergei S. Kholod, Lyudmila A. Konchenko, Yuri V. Korostelev, Evgeny S. Melnikov, Natalia G. Moskalenko, Alexei N. Polezhaev, Olga E. Ponomareva, Elena B. Pospelova, Irina N. Safronova, Raisa P. Shelkunova, Boris A. Yurtsev
United States/Alaska: Martha K. Raynolds, Michael D. Fleming, Carl J. Markon, David F. Murray, Stephen S. Talbot, Donald A. Walker
Project Director: Donald A. Walker
CAVM reviewers include:
Susan Aiken, Hanne H. Christiansen, Bruce Forbes, Lynn Gillespie, Joyce Gould, Ole Humlum, Janet C. Jorgenson, M. Torre Jorgenson, Esther Lévesque, Nadezhda V. Matveyeva, Ingo Möller, Galina N. Ogureeva, Serge Payette, Josef Svoboda, David K. Swanson, Charles Tarnocai, Dietbert Thannheiser, Tatyana Yurkovskaya.
Compilation and cartography by:
Martha K. Raynolds Hilmar A. Maier Alaska Geobotany Center Institute of Arctic Biology University of Alaska Fairbanks Fairbanks, Alaska 99775 USA
Produced by:
Natalie G. Trahan, Johnsons Control, Inc, Tammy Charron, Beth A.Vairin, Susan M. Lauritzen USGS National Wetlands Research Center 700 Cajundome Blvd. Lafayette, Louisiana 70506 USA
Funded by:
National Science Foundation Grant number OPP-9908-829 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Bureau of Land Management
Suggested Citation:
CAVM Team. 2003. Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map. Scale 1:7,500,000. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) Map No. 1. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, Alaska
Participating Institutions
Alaska Geobotany Center, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks. PO Box 757000, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7000 Earth Cryosphere Institute, SB RAS. 30/6 Vavilov Str., Moscow, 119991, Russia Institute of Plant Ecology, Hindenburgplatz 55, Muenster 48143, Germany Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Hilemmur 3, Box 5320, Reykjavik, IS-125 Iceland University of Tromso, Dept. of Natural Sciences, Tromso N-9037, Norway International Inst. for Tropical Forestry, PO Box 25000, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00928-5000 Komarov Botanical Institute RAS, Prof. Popov Str. 2., St. Petersburg 197376, Russia USGS/Alaska Geographic Science Office, 4230 University Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508-4664 US Fish and Wildlife Service, 1101 East Tudor Dr., Anchorage AK 99503 USGS National Wetlands Research Center, 700 Cajundome Blvd., Lafayette, Louisiana, 70506, USA Johnson Controls, Inc.
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