Mexico: Chamela
Latitude: 19.655303
Longitude: -104.856883
- Network: Unaffiliated
- Principal investigator: Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa
- PI-affiliated institution: University of Alberta
- 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:
- Agriculture: Agricultural management of any kind, such as cultivation (including tillage, plowing, or discing), harvest, irrigation, pesticides, planting, or liming.
- Forestry: Forest management such as logging of any kind, plantation planting, or herbicide application.
- Grazing: Herbivory or browsing by mammals, managed or wild.
- Flux data collection:
- Start date: April 2005
- End date: Ongoing
- Start date: April 2005
- Flux methods:
- Eddy covariance
- Optical data collection:
- Start date: September 2003
- End date: Ongoing
- Start date: September 2003
- Data collection period: Continuous operation: Variable collected continuously with the reported method.
- Data scale: Leaf, Canopy, Stand
- Collection methods: Manual, Tower
- Types of data collected: fAPAR, NDVI (Proxy NDVI), PAR, PYR, Hydrological, Canopy structure (Landsat, Hyperion, Quickbird, MODIS), Canopy temperature (DBH)
- Publications
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Lott EJ, Bullock SH, Solis-Magallanes JA. Floristic diversity and structure of upland and arroyo forests of coastal Jalisco. Biotropica. 1987 Sep 1:228-35.
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Martinez-Yrizar A, Maass JM, Pérez-Jiménez LA, Sarukhán J. Net primary productivity of a tropical deciduous forest ecosystem in western Mexico. Journal of Tropical Ecology. 1996 Jan 1;12(1):169-75.
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Cotler H, Ortega-Larrocea MP. Effects of land use on soil erosion in a tropical dry forest ecosystem, Chamela watershed, Mexico. Catena. 2006 Feb 28;65(2):107-17.
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Castellanos J, Maass M, Kummerow J. Root biomass of a dry deciduous tropical forest in Mexico. Plant and Soil. 1991 Mar 1;131(2):225-8.
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External home page/data download: http://fluxnet.ornl.gov/site/644