• Network: AmeriFlux
  
• Principal investigator: Andrew Richardson
  
• PI-affiliated institution: Harvard University
  
• Primary IGBP ecosystem type: Deciduous Broadleaf Forests
  
• Dominant plant functional type: Deciduous Broadleaf trees
  
• Recent and historic disturbance and management events that may affect this site:
  • Undisturbed: No disturbance or management has occurred on the site
• Flux data collection:
  • Start date: May 2004
    
  • End date: Ongoing
    
• Flux methods:
  • Chambers
  • Eddy Covariance
• Optical data collection:
  • Start date: May 2004
    
  • End date: Ongoing
    
• Data collection period: Continuous operation: Variable collected continuously with the reported method.
  
• Data scale: Canopy, Stand
  
• Collection methods: Manual, Tower
  
• Types of data collected: Eddy covariance, ecosystem-scale chamber gas exchange, micrometeorological data, various airborne and spaceborne platforms, canopy reflectance, canopy structure; FPAR; species composition, webcam (phenocam), GPP
  
• Publications:
  • Hilton TW, DAVIS KJ, Keller K. 2014. Evaluating terrestrial CO2 flux diagnoses and uncertainties from a simple land surface model and its residuals. Biogeosciences. 11(2):217-235.
  • Stoy PC, Trowbridge AM, Bauerle WL. 2014. Controls on seasonal patterns of maximum ecosystem carbon uptake and canopy-scale photosynthetic light response: contributions from both temperature and photoperiod. Photosynthesis Research. 119(1-2):49-64.
  • Ryu Y, Baldocchi DD, BLACK ANDREWT, Detto M, LAW BEVERLYE, Leuning R, Miyata A, Reichstein M, Vargas R, Ammann C et al.. 2012. On the temporal upscaling of evapotranspiration from instantaneous remote sensing measurements to 8-day mean daily-sums. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 152:212-222.
  • Horn JE, Schulz K. 2011. Identification of a general light use efficiency model for gross primary production. Biogeosciences. 8(4):999-1021.

External homepage: https://ameriflux.lbl.gov/sites/siteinfo/US-Bar

Data download: https://www.osti.gov/dataexplorer/biblio/dataset/1246030