The Arctic ecozone is undergoing rapid and major change in response to climate change. Establishing a baseline of current Arctic vascular plant diversity and distribution is necessary to be able to track changes in species composition... more
The Arctic ecozone is undergoing rapid and major change in response to climate change. Establishing a baseline of current Arctic vascular plant diversity and distribution is necessary to be able to track changes in species composition over time due to climate change. Here, we report the results of a floristic study of vascular plant diversity of Katannilik Territorial Park and Kimmirut and vicinity on southern Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Nunavut, Canada. The study area is located within Circumpolar Arctic Bioclimate Subzone D. The study is based on a dataset comprising 1571 collections from the study area gathered over the last century, including 838 collections we made during fieldwork in 2012. We present the results in an annotated checklist. The vascular plant flora of the study area comprises 34 families, 98 genera, 210 species, three nothospecies, and seven infraspecific taxa. We recorded 190 species, five infraspecific taxa, and two nothospecies from Kata...
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... Fig. 1). Four subspecies— V. c. celata, V. c. orestera, V. c. lutescens, and V. c. sordida— are recognized on the basis of differences in plumage, molt patterns, and size (Sogge et al. 1994, Pyle 1997). ... 1985, Sogge et al. 1994 ...