Zackenberg Basic

As an integrated activity at Zackenberg the long-term monitoring programme, Zackenberg Basic, was initiated in 1995 and fully implemented for the terrestrial part of the ecosystem in 1996.

In 2003, the programme was supplemented with a sub-programme, MarineBasis, taking care of the marine environment. In 2008, it was supplemented with another sub-programme focusing on glaciers (GlacioBasis). The objective of the programme is to provide long time series of data on the natural innate oscillations and plasticity of a high Arctic ecosystem. This is accomplished through monitoring of selected biotic parameters and elements (BioBasis and MarineBasis) as well as climatic (ClimateBasis and GlacioBasis) and other abiotic (GeoBasis and MarineBasis) parameters and elements throughout the year on a long-term basis.

In depth information on ZackenbergBasic is available in the annual reports for ZERO under Publications

Data from the monitoring programmes can be found on the Data page.

For further information about the long-term monitoring at Zackenberg please contact the programme managers of the individual monitoring programmes.