• 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: Leaf, Canopy, Stand
  
• Collection methods: Manual, Tower
  
• Types of data collected: Fluxes, optical data
  
• Publications:
  • Fenstermaker, Lynn F., Beth A. Newingham, ID Stanley D. Smith, and Therese N. Charlet. "PS 6-63: Spectral assessment of Mojave global change treatment effects." In The 94th ESA Annual Meeting. 2009.
  • 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.
  • Newingham, Beth A., and Stanley D. Smith. "COS 102-5: Thunderstorms, SUVs, and ATVs: What do they mean for Mojave Desert perennials?." (2007).

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