Data from: "Snowmelt Timing Regulates Community Composition, Phenology, and Physiological Performance of Alpine Plants"

• Main Authors: Winkler, Daniel E., Butz, Ramona J., Germino, Matthew J., Reinhardt, Keith, Kueppers, Lara M.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem; Subalpine and Alpine Species Range Shifts with Climate Change: Temperature and Soil Moisture Manipulations to Test Species and Population Responses 2021
• Subjects: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE; Elevation; Distribution; Flowering; Niwot Ridge; Photosynthesis; Snowmelt gradient; Spatio-temporal dynamics; Water relations; Air temperature; Soil temperature; Soil moisture; Solar radiation; Relative humidity; Scalar wind speed; Phenology; First date of flowering; Last date of flowering; Flowering duration; Vegetation cover; Snowmelt date; Transpiration; Plant physiology; Water-use efficiency; Dark respiration; Stomatal conductance; Species richness; Plant water potential; Keyhole; Sibbaldia procumbens
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15485/1756714; https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1756714/

This archive contains data that were used to support conclusions drawn in “Snowmelt Timing Regulates Community Composition, Phenology, and Physiological Performance of Alpine Plants”, by Winkler et al., 2018. Data were collected throughout the 2009 growing season on Niwot Ridge, Colorado, before the...