• 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
    
• Flux methods:
  • Chambers
  • Eddy Covariance
• Optical data collection:
  • Start date: April 1997
    
  • End date: June 2007
    
• 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.

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