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United States: Nevada: FACE (Free-Air CO2 Enrichment) Facility

(Previous site name: Nevada Test Site)

Latitude: 36.760876
Longitude: -115.965196

Nevada Desert FACE Facility
Nevada Desert FACE Facility
Nevada Desert Free Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment Facility
Nevada Desert Free Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment Facility

  • 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.

External homepage: http://web.unlv.edu/Climate_Change_Research/Data_Bases/data_index.htm