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Invasion by Tamarix (L.) can severely alter riparian areas of the western U.S., which are globally rare ecosystems. The upper Verde River, Arizona, is a relatively free-flowing river and has abundant native riparian vegetation. Tamarix is present on the upper Verde but is a minor component of the vegetation (8% of stems). This study sought to determine whether riparian vegetation characteristics differed between sites where Tamarix was present and sites where Tamarix was absent during the invasion of the upper Verde. We hypothesized that herbaceous understory and woody plant communities would differ between Tamarix present and absent sites. Our hypothesis was generally confirmed, the two types of sites were different....
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation,
Journal Citation;
Tags: Arizona,
Biological Invasions,
Community analysis,
Indicator Species Analysis,
Non-metric Multidimensional Scaling (NMS), All tags...
Riparian,
Saltcedar,
Springer,
Tamarisk,
Tamarix,
Verde River,
perMANOVA, Fewer tags
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Final Report - Executive Summary: This final project report is prepared to summarize the research project titled “Assessing evapotranspiration rate changes for proposed restoration of the forested uplands of the Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCC)” for the Desert LCC of the Bureau of Reclamation as a requirement for closing out the project. This report includes the scope of work, summary of research project, results, and conclusions.Among all of the components of the terrestrial water cycle, evapotranspiration (ET) consumes the largest amount of water. Accurate estimation of ET is very important to understand the influence of ET to the hydrologic response of recharge and runoff processes in the water...
Categories: Data,
Publication;
Types: Citation,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2012,
ATMOSPHERE,
ATMOSPHERE,
ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR,
ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR, All tags...
AZ-01,
Applications and Tools,
Arizona,
Datasets/Database,
EARTH SCIENCE,
EARTH SCIENCE,
EVAPOTRANSPIRATION,
EVAPOTRANSPIRATION,
Federal resource managers,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Northern Arizona,
Publication,
Publication,
Publication,
Report,
United States,
WATER VAPOR PROCESSES,
WATER VAPOR PROCESSES,
adaptation,
best management practice (BMP),
biota,
climate change,
completed,
drought,
ecosystem services,
fire,
forest,
groundwater,
hydrology,
land cover,
management,
model,
native,
plant,
product,
remote sensing,
resilience,
restoration,
snow,
soil,
topography,
vegetation,
water availability,
water budget,
watershed, Fewer tags
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Accurate estimation of evapotranspiration (ET) is essential for assessments of water balance and hydrologic responses to forest restoration treatments in uplands adjacent to the Desert LCC. As part of the Four Forests Restoration Initiative, a new paired watershed study is being planned to assess the hydrologic effects of mechanically thinning and restoring a more frequent fire regime to the ponderosa pine forests of Arizona. Water and energy balances will be measured and modeled in these paired watersheds to help inform and better plan for the hydrologic responses of future forest restoration actions. Researchers at Northern Arizona University have collected six years of eddy covariance measurements of ET in the...
Categories: Data,
Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2012,
ATMOSPHERE,
ATMOSPHERE,
ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR,
ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR, All tags...
AZ-01,
Applications and Tools,
Arizona,
Data Acquisition and Development,
Data Management and Integration,
Datasets/Database,
Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative,
EARTH SCIENCE,
EARTH SCIENCE,
EVAPOTRANSPIRATION,
EVAPOTRANSPIRATION,
Federal resource managers,
Informing Conservation Delivery,
LCC,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Northern Arizona,
Project,
Publication,
United States,
WATER VAPOR PROCESSES,
WATER VAPOR PROCESSES,
adaptation,
best management practice (BMP),
biota,
climate change,
completed,
drought,
ecosystem services,
fire,
forest,
groundwater,
hydrology,
land cover,
management,
model,
native,
plant,
remote sensing,
resilience,
restoration,
snow,
soil,
topography,
vegetation,
water availability,
water budget,
watershed, Fewer tags
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These data were compiled based on field observations and available literature. Field observations of plant cover were made in September and October of 2013 and 2014, while trait measurements were made in September and October of 2014 and 2015. Field data was collected on sandbars along the Colorado River through Grand Canyon between river miles 0 and 226. Field measurements of specific leaf area, stem specific gravity, and total cover. Plant height was taken from the Flora of North America, the Jepson Desert Manual, or A Utah Flora. Seed mass values were available from the Kew Seed Information Database (http://data.kew.org/sid/). Photosynthetic pathway was compiled from published literature. The trait values were...
Tags: Arizona,
Colorado River,
Community assembly,
Community-level trait value,
Diamond Creek, All tags...
Environmental gradient,
Exceedance probability,
Field data,
Field measurements,
Field observations,
Flood disturbance adaptation,
Functional traits,
Glen Canyon Dam,
Grand Canyon,
Inundation,
Lees Ferry,
Literature review,
Marble Canyon,
Photosynthetic pathway,
Plant cover,
Plant height,
Relative species cover,
Riparian plants,
Sandbars,
Seed mass,
Species cover,
Specific leaf area,
Stem specific gravity,
Stress adaptation,
Total cover,
Trait measurements,
Trait values,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Fewer tags
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