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Biological soil crust and vascular plant data from Horse Heaven Hills, Washington, measured in 1999 and remeasured in 2020

Dates

Publication Date
Time Period
1999
Time Period
2020

Citation

Root, H.T., McCune, B., Ponzetti, J.M., and Pyke, D.A., 2023, Biological soil crust and vascular plant data from Horse Heaven Hills, Washington, measured in 1999 and remeasured in 2020: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9QA64QI.

Summary

This dataset contains biocrust lichen and moss cover at 186 plots at Horse Heaven Hills in Washington, USA. These data were measured by Jeanne Ponzetti in 1999 and remeasured by Heather Root in 2020. In addition to the biocrust data, we include site data such as elevation, location, wildfire history, and cover classes of dominant plants, rock and soil.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Heather T Root, Weber State University
Process Contact :
Heather T Root, Weber State University
Originator :
Heather T. Root, Bruce McCune, Jeanne M Ponzetti, David A Pyke
Metadata Contact :
Heather T Root, Weber State University
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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Horse_Heaven_Hills_plant_and_crust_data_1999_and_2020.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		96.3 KB application/fgdc+xml
BiocrustCommunity.csv 37.4 KB text/csv
CrustComparisonDataDictionary.csv 2.54 KB text/csv
HHHDataSummarizedForDAGwFires.csv 39.63 KB text/csv
PlotFireVascData.csv 69.25 KB text/csv
PlotFireVascDataDictionary.csv 2.47 KB text/csv

Purpose

The original data were collected to develop an inventory of biocrusts in the area and explore their ecological associations. The site was revisited later to assess changes, particularly in relation to wildfires. These data could be used in the future to further assess changes in the biocrust community or in broader analyses combined with other data to examine broad-scale patterns in biocrust communities.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9QA64QI

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