• Network: Unaffiliated
  
• Principal investigator: Walt Oechel
  
• PI-affiliated institution: San Diego State University
  
• Primary IGBP ecosystem type: Closed Shrublands
  
• Dominant plant functional type: Shrub
  
• Recent and historic disturbance and management events that may affect this site:
  • Undisturbed: No disturbance or management has occurred on the site (post 1905 fire)
    
• Flux data collection:
  • Start date: June 2000
    
  • End date: Unknown
    
• Flux methods:
  • Eddy covariance
• Optical data collection:
  • Start date: June 2000
    
  • End date: Unknown
• Data collection period: Unknown
  
• Data scale: Stand
  
• Collection methods: Tram, Tower
  
• Types of data collected: Fluxes, field transect and leaf spectra
  
• Publications:
  • Oechel W. AmeriFlux US-SO4 Sky Oaks-New Stand. AmeriFlux; San Diego State Univ., CA (United States); 2016 Jan 1.
  • Schmidt A, Hanson C, Kathilankal J, Law BE. Classification and assessment of turbulent fluxes above ecosystems in North-America with self-organizing feature map networks. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 2011 Apr 15;151(4):508-20.
  • Chen M, Zhuang Q, Cook DR, Coulter R, Pekour M, Scott RL, Munger JW, Bible K. Quantification of terrestrial ecosystem carbon dynamics in the conterminous United States combining a process-based biogeochemical model and MODIS and AmeriFlux data. Biogeosciences (Online). 2011 Sep 21;8(9).
  • DuBois S, Desai AR, Singh A, Serbin SP, Goulden ML, Baldocchi DD, Ma S, Oechel WC, Wharton S, Kruger EL, Townsend PA. Using imaging spectroscopy to detect variation in terrestrial ecosystem productivity across a water‐stressed landscape. Ecological Applications. 2018 Jul;28(5):1313-24.
     

External homepage:  https://ameriflux.lbl.gov/sites/siteinfo/US-SO4

Data download: https://www.osti.gov/dataexplorer/biblio/dataset/1246099