ANPP, NDVI and canopy height in black sand extended growing season experiment, 2019 - 2023. ...
As a result of climate change, the Rocky Mountain Front Range is experiencing warmer summers and earlier snowmelt. Due to the importance of snow for regulating soil temperature, growing season length, and available moisture in alpine ecosystems, even small shifts in the snow-free period could have l...
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ftdatacite:10.6073/pasta/c773d76b17d8402cb81f1254e5325504 2024-01-28T10:09:36+01:00 ANPP, NDVI and canopy height in black sand extended growing season experiment, 2019 - 2023. ... Suding, Katharine N Smith, Jane G Niwot Ridge LTER 2023 https://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/c773d76b17d8402cb81f1254e5325504 https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?packageid=knb-lter-nwt.265.4 en eng Environmental Data Initiative dataPackage Dataset dataset 2023 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/c773d76b17d8402cb81f1254e5325504 2024-01-04T23:04:06Z As a result of climate change, the Rocky Mountain Front Range is experiencing warmer summers and earlier snowmelt. Due to the importance of snow for regulating soil temperature, growing season length, and available moisture in alpine ecosystems, even small shifts in the snow-free period could have large impacts. The focus of the Black Sand Extended Growing Season Length Experiment is to examine how terrain-related differences in climate exposure influence the way alpine habitats respond to climate change via earlier snowmelt. To simulate how climate exposure may affect plant communities, NWT LTER researchers established 5 experimental sites, each containing a pair 10 x 40m rectangular plots. These sites include north and south facing aspects, subalpine and alpine tundra meadows and a range of hydrological conditions (e.g. dry meadows, moist meadows, wet meadows). We accelerated snowmelt in one plot at each site by adding chemically inert black sand, while keeping the second plot as an unmanipulated control; ... Dataset Tundra DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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As a result of climate change, the Rocky Mountain Front Range is experiencing warmer summers and earlier snowmelt. Due to the importance of snow for regulating soil temperature, growing season length, and available moisture in alpine ecosystems, even small shifts in the snow-free period could have large impacts. The focus of the Black Sand Extended Growing Season Length Experiment is to examine how terrain-related differences in climate exposure influence the way alpine habitats respond to climate change via earlier snowmelt. To simulate how climate exposure may affect plant communities, NWT LTER researchers established 5 experimental sites, each containing a pair 10 x 40m rectangular plots. These sites include north and south facing aspects, subalpine and alpine tundra meadows and a range of hydrological conditions (e.g. dry meadows, moist meadows, wet meadows). We accelerated snowmelt in one plot at each site by adding chemically inert black sand, while keeping the second plot as an unmanipulated control; ... |
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ANPP, NDVI and canopy height in black sand extended growing season experiment, 2019 - 2023. ... |
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ANPP, NDVI and canopy height in black sand extended growing season experiment, 2019 - 2023. ... |
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