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These plant and soil data were collected by Timothy M. Wertin and Sasha C. Reed in the spring, summer, and fall of 2011 at a climate manipulation experiment site near Moab, UT (38.521411, -109.470567). These data were collected to assess how warming affects leaf photosynthesis, soil CO 2 efflux, and soil chemistry in plots of ambient and warming treatments.
Types: Citation;
Tags: Achnatherum hymenoides,
Ambient air temperature,
Ambient relative humidity,
Colorado Plateau,
Foliar gas exchange, All tags...
Grand County,
Indian ricegrass,
Leaf intercellular CO2 concentration,
Leaf temperature,
Meteorology,
Moab,
Photosynthesis,
Photosynthetically active radiation,
Plant biomass,
Precipitation,
Reproductive inflorescence,
Soil CO2 efflux,
Soil nutrients,
Soil temperature,
Soil volumetric water content,
Southwestern United States,
Stomatal conductance,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
United States,
Utah, Fewer tags
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Piñon–juniper (PJ) woodlands are a dominant community type across the Intermountain West, comprising over a million acres and experiencing critical effects from increasing wildfire. Large PJ mortality and regeneration failure after catastrophic wildfire have elevated concerns about the long-term viability of PJ woodlands. Thinning is increasingly used to safeguard forests from fire and in an attempt to increase climate resilience. We have only a limited understanding of how fire and thinning will affect the structure and function of PJ ecosystems. Here, we examined vegetation structure, microclimate conditions, and PJ regeneration dynamics following ~20 years post-fire and thinning treatments. We found that burned...
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