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MX-Aog: Alamos Old-Growth tropical dry forest

Tower_team:
PI: Enrico A. Yepez enrico.yepez@itson.edu.mx - Instituto Tecnologico de Sonora
FluxContact: Nidia E. Rojas Robles nerojasrobles@gmail.com - Instituto Tecnologico de Sonora
Lat, Long: 26.9968, -108.7892
Elevation(m): 367.284
Network Affiliations: AmeriFlux, MexFlux
Vegetation IGBP: DBF (Deciduous Broadleaf Forests: Lands dominated by woody vegetation with a percent cover >60% and height exceeding 2 meters. Consists of broadleaf tree communities with an annual cycle of leaf-on and leaf-off periods.)
Climate Koeppen: Bsh (Steppe: very cold winter)
Mean Annual Temp (°C): 24.2
Mean Annual Precip. (mm): 732
Flux Species Measured: CO2, H, H2O
Years Data Collected: 2016 - 2018
Years Data Available:

AmeriFlux BASE 2015 - 2018   Data Citation

Data Use Policy:AmeriFlux CC-BY-4.0 Policy1
Description:
This tower is located at a patch of remnant old growth tropical dry forest where the dominant vegetation are leguminous trees and a notorious presence ...
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Research Topics: Biogeosciences, ecohydrology, functional plant ecology
Acknowledgment: We thank CONACyT México project CB-2013-01:221014 for orginal funding for tower installation and the program PROFAPI-ITSON for additional funding for site maintainance
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Image Credit: Enrico Yepez, 2022
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