Updated 2018-09-28
The purpose of the BioBasis programme is to monitor basic qualitative and quantitative elements of biodiversity in the terrestrial ecosystems at Zackenberg in Northeast Greenland. The programme provides data on typical High Arctic species and processes that can be expected to react on year to year variation in climate as well as long-term climate change. It includes 30 variables of terrestrial and limnic plant, arthropod, bird and mammal dynamics in the Zackenberg valley.
This is not a National Implementation Plan (NIP) project
Time frame
- Status
- Ongoing
- Project time span
- 1995 - 2006
- Data collection
- 1995 - 2006
- Data processing
- 1995 - 2006
- Data reporting
- 1995 - 2006
Geography
- Regions studied
- Climate change effects
- Stations or areas where observations are made
Zackenberg Research Station (74.30, 20.30), central NE Greenland
Data availability
- Are data archived or planned to be archived at an AMAP Thematic Data Centre?
- no
- If no (or only part of data are reported to a TDC), where and how are (other) data stored?
- http://biobasis.dmu.dk with free access
- References to key publications (or planned publications) and data reports
- See www.zackenberg.dk
- Samples/specimens archived in specimen banks?
- No
Methods & Procedures
- Procedures and methodology used for, e.g., sampling and sample storage, sample pretreatment, extraction and analysis, including which laboratories are involved, references to methods employed, etc.
See manual on http://biobasis.dmu.dk
Additional Information
- Is this a bi- AND multi-lateral project (i.e. a project involving cooperation between different countries)?
- No
- Other related projects
Zackenberg database (ZERO)
GeoBasis - Zackenberg