• 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:
  • Fire: Wildfire or managed burns
• 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:
  • 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.
  • Ichii K, Wang W, Hashimoto H, Yang F, Votava P, Michaelis AR, Nemani RR. Refinement of rooting depths using satellite-based evapotranspiration seasonality for ecosystem modeling in California. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 2009 Nov 3;149(11):1907-18.
  • Xiao J, Zhuang Q, Law BE, Chen J, Baldocchi DD, Cook DR, Oren R, Richardson AD, Wharton S, Ma S, Martin TA. A continuous measure of gross primary production for the conterminous United States derived from MODIS and AmeriFlux data. Remote sensing of environment. 2010 Mar 15;114(3):576-91.
  • Baldocchi D, Sturtevant C, Contributors F. Does day and night sampling reduce spurious correlation between canopy photosynthesis and ecosystem respiration?. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 2015 Jul 15;207:117-26.

External homepage:  https://ameriflux.lbl.gov/sites/siteinfo/US-SO3

Data download: https://www.osti.gov/dataexplorer/biblio/dataset/1246098