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United States: California: Cheseboro Canyon

Latitude: 34.16777
Longitude: -118.71944

Cheseboro Canyon Field Site
Cheseboro Canyon Field Site
Cheseboro Canyon Field Site
Cheseboro Canyon Field Site

  • Network: Unaffiliated
  • Principal investigators: John A. Gamon, Yufu Cheng
  • PI-affiliated institution: California State University, Los Angeles
  • Primary IGBP ecosystem type: Grasslands
  • Dominant plant functional type: Grass
  • Recent and historic disturbance and management events that may affect this site:
    • Drought: Prolonged water deficiency; hydrologic or climatic drought
    • Fire: Wildfire or managed burns
    • Temperature extreme: Heat wave or freeze
  • Flux data collection:
    • Start date: December 2002
    • End date: Unknown
  • Flux methods:
    • Chambers
  • Optical data collection:
    • Start date: December 2002
    • End date: Unknown
  • Data collection period: Growing season operation only: Variable collected only during the growing season with the reported method
  • Data scale: Stand
  • Collection methods: whole-ecosystem chambers
  • Types of data collected: AVIRIS remote sensing images, canopy and leaf reflectance, Leaf gas exchange, Leaf pigment, canopy structure, FPAR, species composition, hydrological
  • Publications:
    • Brunelle SM, Moyes AB, Houston SA, Gamon JA. Relating NDVI and WBI to Carbon Flux and Biomass in a Grassland Ecosystem. AGUFM. 2003 Dec;2003:B22A-0802.