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US-Whs: Walnut Gulch Lucky Hills Shrub

Tower_team:
PI: Russ Scott russ.scott@ars.usda.gov - United States Department of Agriculture
Technician: Ross Bryant Ross.Bryant@ars.usda.gov - USDA-ARS-SWRC
Lat, Long: 31.7438, -110.0522
Elevation(m): 1370
Network Affiliations: AmeriFlux, Phenocam
Vegetation IGBP: OSH (Open Shrublands: Lands with woody vegetation less than 2 meters tall and with shrub canopy cover between 10-60%. The shrub foliage can be either evergreen or deciduous.)
Climate Koeppen: Bsk (Steppe: warm winter)
Mean Annual Temp (°C): 17.6
Mean Annual Precip. (mm): 320
Flux Species Measured: CO2, H2O
Years Data Collected: AmeriFlux: 2007 - Present
Description:
A semiarid Chihuahuan Desert shrubland located in the USDA-ARS Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed (WGEW) surrounding the town of Tombstone, AZ. The site ...
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URL: https://www.ars.usda.gov/pacific-west-area/tucson-az/southwest-watershed-research
Research Topics: Desert shrubland carbon and water cycling, ET partitioning, soil respiration
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Scott, R.L., Biederman, J.A., Hamerlynck, E.P., Barron-Gafford, G. 2015. The carbon balance pivot point of southwestern U.S. semiarid ecosystems: Insights from the 21st century drought, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 120, 2612-2624.

US-Whs: Walnut Gulch Lucky Hills Shrub

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US-Whs: Walnut Gulch Lucky Hills Shrub

MODIS NDVI

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Year Publication
2012 Ruehr, N. K., Martin, J. G., Law, B. E. (2012) Effects Of Water Availability On Carbon And Water Exchange In A Young Ponderosa Pine Forest: Above- And Belowground Responses, Agricultural And Forest Meteorology, 164, 136-148.
2019 Sullivan, R. C., Cook, D. R., Ghate, V. P., Kotamarthi, V. R., Feng, Y. (2019) Improved Spatiotemporal Representativeness And Bias Reduction Of Satellite-Based Evapotranspiration Retrievals Via Use Of In Situ Meteorology And Constrained Canopy Surface Resistance, Journal Of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124(2), 342-352.
2017 Euskirchen, E. S., Bret-Harte, M. S., Shaver, G. R., Edgar, C. W., Romanovsky, V. E. (2017) Long-Term Release Of Carbon Dioxide From Arctic Tundra Ecosystems In Alaska, Ecosystems, 20(5), 960-974.
2018 Smith, W. K., Biederman, J. A., Scott, R. L., Moore, D. J., He, M., Kimball, J. S., Yan, D., Hudson, A., Barnes, M. L., MacBean, N., Fox, A. M., Litvak, M. E. (2018) Chlorophyll Fluorescence Better Captures Seasonal And Interannual Gross Primary Productivity Dynamics Across Dryland Ecosystems Of Southwestern North America, Geophysical Research Letters, 45(2), 748-757.
2010 Scott, R. L. (2010) Using Watershed Water Balance To Evaluate The Accuracy Of Eddy Covariance Evaporation Measurements For Three Semiarid Ecosystems, Agricultural And Forest Meteorology, 150(2), 219-225.
2007 Watts, C. J., Scott, R. L., Garatuza-Payan, J., Rodriguez, J. C., Prueger, J. H., Kustas, W. P., Douglas, M. (2007) Changes In Vegetation Condition And Surface Fluxes During NAME 2004, Journal Of Climate, 20(9), 1810-1820.
2015 Scott, R. L., Biederman, J. A., Hamerlynck, E. P., Barron-Gafford, G. A. (2015) The Carbon Balance Pivot Point Of Southwestern U.S. Semiarid Ecosystems: Insights From The 21st Century Drought, Journal Of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 120(12), 2612-2624.
2009 Moran, M., Scott, R., Keefer, T., Emmerich, W., Hernandez, M., Nearing, G., Paige, G., Cosh, M., O’Neill, P. (2009) Partitioning Evapotranspiration In Semiarid Grassland And Shrubland Ecosystems Using Time Series Of Soil Surface Temperature, Agricultural And Forest Meteorology, 149(1), 59-72.
2016 Biederman, J. A., Scott, R. L., Goulden, M. L., Vargas, R., Litvak, M. E., Kolb, T. E., Yepez, E. A., Oechel, W. C., Blanken, P. D., Bell, T. W., Garatuza-Payan, J., Maurer, G. E., Dore, S., Burns, S. P. (2016) Terrestrial Carbon Balance In A Drier World: The Effects Of Water Availability In Southwestern North America, Global Change Biology, 22(5), 1867-1879.
2013 Hamerlynck, E. P., Scott, R. L., Sánchez-Cañete, E. P., Barron-Gafford, G. A. (2013) Nocturnal Soil CO2 Uptake And Its Relationship To Subsurface Soil And Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes In A Chihuahuan Desert Shrubland, Journal Of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 118(4), 1593-1603.
2010 Moran, M. S., Hamerlynck, E. P., Scott, R. L., Stone, J. J., Holifield Collins, C. D., Keefer, T. O., Bryant, R., DeYoung, L., Nearing, G. S., Sugg, Z., Hymer, D. C. (2010) Hydrologic Response To Precipitation Pulses Under And Between Shrubs In The Chihuahuan Desert, Arizona, Water Resources Research, 46(W10509), n/a-n/a.
2006 Scott, R. L., Huxman, T. E., Cable, W. L., Emmerich, W. E. (2006) Partitioning Of Evapotranspiration And Its Relation To Carbon Dioxide Exchange In A Chihuahuan Desert Shrubland, Hydrological Processes, 20(15), 3227-3243.
2008 Li, F., Kustas, W. P., Anderson, M. C., Prueger, J. H., Scott, R. L. (2008) Effect Of Remote Sensing Spatial Resolution On Interpreting Tower-Based Flux Observations, Remote Sensing Of Environment, 112(2), 337-349.
2015 Scott, R.L., Biederman, J.A., Hamerlynck, E.P., Barron-Gafford, G. (2015) The carbon balance pivot point of southwestern U.S. semiarid ecosystems: Insights from the 21st century drought, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 120, 2612-2624.
2016 Wolf, S., Keenan, T.F., Fisher, J.B., Baldocchi, D.D., Desai, A.R., Richardson, A.D., Scott, R.L., Law, B.E., Litvak, M.E., Brunsell, N.A., Peters, W., van der Laan-Luijkx, I.T. (2016) Warm spring reduced carbon cycle impact of the 2012 US summer drought, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(21), 5880-5885.

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