Canada: Alberta: Edmonton Agricultural Fields - Alfalfa Field Phenology Station and Tram
Latitude: 53.496400
Longitude: -113.552400
- Network: Unaffiliated
- Principal investigator: John Gamon
- PI-affiliated institution: University of Alberta
- Primary IGBP ecosystem type: Croplands
- Dominant plant functional type: Cereal crops
- Recent and historic disturbance and management events that may affect this site:
- Agricultural management of any kind, such as cultivation (including tillage, plowing, or discing), harvest, irrigation, pesticides, planting, or liming.
- Grazing: Herbivory or browsing by mammals, managed or wild.
- Land cover change: Land use and land cover change; invasion; woody or urban encroachment
- Flux data collection:
- Start date: April 2011
- End date: October 2013
- Start date: April 2011
- Flux methods:
- Eddy covariance
- Optical data collection:
- Start date: April 2011
- End date: October 2013
- Start date: April 2011
- Data collection period: Growing season operation only: Variable collected only during the growing season with the reported method
- Data scale: Stand
- Collection methods: Tower, Tram
- Collection methods: Tower, Tram
- Types of data collected: PAR, PYR, optical data
- Publications:
- Castro SM. Experimental Tests of the Light-Use Efficiency Model in Alfalfa. (Master's thesis)