United States: Nevada: FACE (Free-Air CO2 Enrichment) Facility
(Previous site name: Nevada Test Site)
Latitude: 36.760876
Longitude: -115.965196
- Network: Unaffiliated
- Principal investigator: Lynn Fenstermaker
- PI-affiliated institution: Desert Research Institute
- Primary IGBP ecosystem type: Barren or Sparse Vegetation
- Dominant plant functional type: Barren or Sparse Vegetation
- Recent and historic disturbance and management events that may affect this site:
- Drought: Prolonged water deficiency; hydrologic or climatic drought
- Temperature extreme: Heat wave or freeze
- Flux data collection:
- Start date: April 1997
- End date: June 2007
- Start date: April 1997
- Flux methods:
- Chambers
- Eddy Covariance
- Optical data collection:
- Start date: April 1997
- End date: June 2007
- Start date: April 1997
- Data collection period: Continuous operation: Variable collected continuously with the reported method.
- Data scale: Canopy, Stand
- Collection methods: Manual, Tower
- Types of data collected: Fluxes, optical data
- Publications:
- Wohlfahrt, Georg, Lynn F. Fenstermaker, and JOHN A. ARNONE III. "Large annual net ecosystem CO2 uptake of a Mojave Desert ecosystem." Global Change Biology 14, no. 7 (2008): 1475-1487.
- Sims, Daniel A., and John A. Gamon. "Estimation of vegetation water content and photosynthetic tissue area from spectral reflectance: a comparison of indices based on liquid water and chlorophyll absorption features." Remote Sensing of Environment 84, no. 4 (2003): 526-537.
- Sims, Daniel A., and John A. Gamon. "Relationships between leaf pigment content and spectral reflectance across a wide range of species, leaf structures and developmental stages." Remote sensing of environment 81, no. 2 (2002): 337-354.
- Long, Stephen P., Elizabeth A. Ainsworth, Alistair Rogers, and Donald R. Ort. "Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide: plants FACE the Future*." Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 55 (2004): 591-628.
External homepage: http://web.unlv.edu/Climate_Change_Research/Data_Bases/data_index.htm