Spatial and temporal dynamics of growth of woody plant species (birch and willows) on the foreland of a retreating glacier in southern Iceland

Ecological Processes

Table 6 Total biomass (AGB plus RB) by species for each station and transect, reported as g C m⁻²

Transect		s1	s2	s3	s4	s5	s6	s7	s8	Transect mean
T1	B. pubescens	1.59	3.61	6.97	1.23	1.99	4.47	15.18	7.01
	Salix spp.	2.13	1.34	4.92	0.73	1.87	0.81	0.95	2.38
	Station total	3.72	4.95	11.89	1.96	3.86	5.28	16.13	9.39	7.15
T2	B. pubescens	22.79	12.32	22.02	0.00	37.76	3.96	38.74	21.28
	Salix spp.	3.25	1.58	2.36	3.42	2.44	2.52	1.99	0.55
	Station total	26.04	13.90	24.38	3.42	40.20	6.48	40.73	21.83	22.12
T3	B. pubescens	80.58	12.01	41.26	6.13	14.79	1.38	20.96	10.77
	Salix spp.	6.52	1.54	2.94	0.86	0.81	3.39	0.93	0.97
	Station total	87.10	13.55	44.20	6.99	15.60	4.77	21.89	11.74	25.73
T4	B. pubesens	14.31	11.86	9.65	27.39	16.06	17.72	43.61	28.45
	Salix spp.	1.10	1.42	0.61	1.98	0.45	0.43	2.56	2.25
	Station total	15.41	13.28	10.26	29.37	16.51	18.15	46.17	30.70	22.48
T5	B. pubescens	29.20	24.28	14.77	43.14	13.19	48.24	28.46	21.97
	Salix spp.	2.19	0.38	0.81	0.77	0.41	0.28	0.20	0.00
	Station total	31.39	24.66	15.58	43.91	13.60	48.52	28.66	21.97	28.54