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Canada: Alberta: Edmonton Agricultural Fields - Barley Station and Tram

Latitude: 53.49064
Longitude: -113.53639

Edmonton Agricultural Fields - Barley Station
Edmonton Agricultural Fields - Barley Station

 

Edmonton Agricultural Fields - Barley Tram
Edmonton Agricultural Fields - Barley Tram

  • 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:
    • Agriculture: 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: May 2011
    • End date: October 2013
  • Flux methods:
    • Eddy covariance
  • Optical data collection:
    • Start date: May 2011
    • End date: October 2013
  • Data collection period: Growing season operation only: Variable collected only during the growing season with the reported method
  • Data scale: Stand
  • Collection methods: Tower
  • Types of data collected: PAR, PYR, Optical data