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US-SRM: Santa Rita Mesquite

Tower_team:
PI: Russell Scott [email protected] - United States Department of Agriculture
Lat, Long: 31.8214, -110.8661
Elevation(m): 1120
Network Affiliations: AmeriFlux, LTAR, Phenocam
Vegetation IGBP: WSA (Woody Savannas: Lands with herbaceous and other understory systems, and with forest canopy cover between 30-60%. The forest cover height exceeds 2 meters.)
Climate Koeppen: Bsk (Steppe: warm winter)
Mean Annual Temp (°C): 17.92
Mean Annual Precip. (mm): 380
Years Data Collected: 2004 - Present
Years Data Available:

FLUXNET2015 2004 - 2014   Data Citation
Description: Semidesert grassland encroached by mesquite (Prosopis velutina) trees. Please see Scott et al. 2009 JGR-Biogeo, 114, G04004
URL: http://ag.arizona.edu/SRER/
Research Topics:
Long-term water, carbon and energy flux measurements (eddy covariance). Determining how woody plant encroachment affects water and carbon cycling. Comparing ...
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US-SRM: Santa Rita Mesquite

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  • Barron-Gafford, G. A., Scott, R. L., Jenerette, G. D., Hamerlynck, E. P., Huxman, T. E. (2013) Landscape And Environmental Controls Over Leaf And Ecosystem Carbon Dioxide Fluxes Under Woody Plant Expansion, Journal Of Ecology, 101(6), 1471-1483. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12161
  • Barron-Gafford, G.A., Scott, R.L., Jenerette, G.D., Huxman, T.E. (2011) The Relative Controls Of Temperature, Soil Moisture, And Plant Functional Group On Soil CO2 Efflux At Diel, Seasonal, And Annual Scales, Journal Of Geophysical Research, 116(G1), n/a-n/a. https://doi.org/10.1029/2010JG001442
  • Biederman, J. A., Scott, R. L., Bell, T. W., Bowling, D. R., Dore, S., Garatuza-Payan, J., Kolb, T. E., Krishnan, P., Krofcheck, D. J., Litvak, M. E., Maurer, G. E., Meyers, T. P., Oechel, W. C., Papuga, S. A., Ponce-Campos, G. E., Rodriguez, J. C., Smith, W. K., Vargas, R., Watts, C. J., Yepez, E. A., Goulden, M. L. (2017) Co2 Exchange And Evapotranspiration Across Dryland Ecosystems Of Southwestern North America, Global Change Biology, 23(10), 4204-4221. https://doi.org/10.1111/GCB.13686
  • Chu, H., Baldocchi, D. D., Poindexter, C., Abraha, M., Desai, A. R., Bohrer, G., Arain, M. A., Griffis, T., Blanken, P. D., O'Halloran, T. L., Thomas, R. Q., Zhang, Q., Burns, S. P., Frank, J. M., Christian, D., Brown, S., Black, T. A., Gough, C. M., Law, B. E., Lee, X., Chen, J., Reed, D. E., Massman, W. J., Clark, K., Hatfield, J., Prueger, J., Bracho, R., Baker, J. M., Martin, T. A. (2018) Temporal Dynamics Of Aerodynamic Canopy Height Derived From Eddy Covariance Momentum Flux Data Across North American Flux Networks, Geophysical Research Letters, 45(2), 9275–9287. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079306
  • Chu, H., Luo, X., Ouyang, Z., Chan, W. S., Dengel, S., Biraud, S. C., Torn, M. S., Metzger, S., Kumar, J., Arain, M. A., Arkebauer, T. J., Baldocchi, D., Bernacchi, C., Billesbach, D., Black, T. A., Blanken, P. D., Bohrer, G., Bracho, R., Brown, S., Brunsell, N. A., Chen, J., Chen, X., Clark, K., Desai, A. R., Duman, T., Durden, D., Fares, S., Forbrich, I., Gamon, J. A., Gough, C. M., Griffis, T., Helbig, M., Hollinger, D., Humphreys, E., Ikawa, H., Iwata, H., Ju, Y., Knowles, J. F., Knox, S. H., Kobayashi, H., Kolb, T., Law, B., Lee, X., Litvak, M., Liu, H., Munger, J. W., Noormets, A., Novick, K., Oberbauer, S. F., Oechel, W., Oikawa, P., Papuga, S. A., Pendall, E., Prajapati, P., Prueger, J., Quinton, W. L., Richardson, A. D., Russell, E. S., Scott, R. L., Starr, G., Staebler, R., Stoy, P. C., Stuart-Haëntjens, E., Sonnentag, O., Sullivan, R. C., Suyker, A., Ueyama, M., Vargas, R., Wood, J. D., Zona, D. (2021) Representativeness Of Eddy-Covariance Flux Footprints For Areas Surrounding Ameriflux Sites, Agricultural And Forest Meteorology, 301-302(6), 108350. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.AGRFORMET.2021.108350
  • Dennis Baldocchi, Cove Sturtevant (2015) Does day and night sampling reduce spurious correlation between canopy photosynthesis and ecosystem respiration?, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 207(1), 117-126. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.AGRFORMET.2015.03.010
  • Hamerlynck, E. P., Scott, R. L., Barron-Gafford, G. A., Cavanaugh, M. L., Susan Moran, M., Huxman, T. E. (2012) Cool-Season Whole-Plant Gas Exchange Of Exotic And Native Semiarid Bunchgrasses, Plant Ecology, 213(8), 1229-1239. https://doi.org/10.1007/S11258-012-0081-X
  • Novick, K. A., Ficklin, D. L., Stoy, P. C., Williams, C. A., Bohrer, G., Oishi, A., Papuga, S. A., Blanken, P. D., Noormets, A., Sulman, B. N., Scott, R. L., Wang, L., Phillips, R. P. (2016) The Increasing Importance Of Atmospheric Demand For Ecosystem Water And Carbon Fluxes, Nature Climate Change, 6(11), 1023-1027. https://doi.org/10.1038/NCLIMATE3114
  • Novick, K. A., Konings, A. G., Gentine, P. (2019) Beyond Soil Water Potential: An Expanded View On Isohydricity Including Land–Atmosphere Interactions And Phenology, Plant, Cell & Environment, 42(6), 1802-1815. https://doi.org/10.1111/PCE.13517
  • Potts, D. L., Scott, R. L., Bayram, S., Carbonara, J. (2009) Woody Plants Modulate The Temporal Dynamics Of Soil Moisture In A Semi-Arid Mesquite Savanna, Ecohydrology, 3(1), 20-27. https://doi.org/10.1002/ECO.91
  • Scott, R. L. (2010) Using Watershed Water Balance To Evaluate The Accuracy Of Eddy Covariance Evaporation Measurements For Three Semiarid Ecosystems, Agricultural And Forest Meteorology, 150(2), 219-225. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.AGRFORMET.2009.11.002
  • Scott, R. L., Cable, W. L., Hultine, K. R. (2008) The Ecohydrologic Significance Of Hydraulic Redistribution In A Semiarid Savanna, Water Resources Research, 44(W02440), n/a-n/a. https://doi.org/10.1029/2007WR006149
  • Scott, R.L., Biederman, J.A., Hamerlynck, E.P., Barron-Gafford, G. (2015) The carbon balance pivot point of southwestern U.S. semiarid ecosystems: Insights from the 21st century drought, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 120(21), 2612-2624. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JG003181
  • Scott, R.L., Jenerette, G.D., Potts, D.L., Huxman, T.E. (2009) Effects Of Seasonal Drought On Net Carbon Dioxide Exchange From A Woody-Plant-Encroached Semiarid Grassland, Journal Of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 114(G4), n/a-n/a. https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JG000900
  • Smith, W. K., Biederman, J. A., Scott, R. L., Moore, D. J., He, M., Kimball, J. S., Yan, D., Hudson, A., Barnes, M. L., MacBean, N., Fox, A. M., Litvak, M. E. (2018) Chlorophyll Fluorescence Better Captures Seasonal And Interannual Gross Primary Productivity Dynamics Across Dryland Ecosystems Of Southwestern North America, Geophysical Research Letters, 45(2), 748-757. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL075922
  • Sullivan, R. C., Cook, D. R., Ghate, V. P., Kotamarthi, V. R., Feng, Y. (2019) Improved Spatiotemporal Representativeness And Bias Reduction Of Satellite-Based Evapotranspiration Retrievals Via Use Of In Situ Meteorology And Constrained Canopy Surface Resistance, Journal Of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124(2), 342-352. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JG004744
  • Sullivan, R. C., Kotamarthi, V. R., Feng, Y. (2019) Recovering Evapotranspiration Trends From Biased CMIP5 Simulations And Sensitivity To Changing Climate Over North America, Journal Of Hydrometeorology, 20(8), 1619-1633. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-18-0259.1
  • Wolf, S., Keenan, T.F., Fisher, J.B., Baldocchi, D.D., Desai, A.R., Richardson, A.D., Scott, R.L., Law, B.E., Litvak, M.E., Brunsell, N.A., Peters, W., van der Laan-Luijkx, I.T. (2016) Warm spring reduced carbon cycle impact of the 2012 US summer drought, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(21), 5880-5885. https://doi.org/10.1073/PNAS.1519620113
  • Zhang, Q., Ficklin, D. L., Manzoni, S., Wang, L., Way, D., Phillips, R. P., Novick, K. A. (2019) Response Of Ecosystem Intrinsic Water Use Efficiency And Gross Primary Productivity To Rising Vapor Pressure Deficit, Environmental Research Letters, 14(7), 074023. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/AB2603
  • Zhang, Q., Phillips, R. P., Manzoni, S., Scott, R. L., Oishi, A. C., Finzi, A., Daly, E., Vargas, R., Novick, K. A. (2018) Changes In Photosynthesis And Soil Moisture Drive The Seasonal Soil Respiration-Temperature Hysteresis Relationship, Agricultural And Forest Meteorology, 259(1), 184-195. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.AGRFORMET.2018.05.005
  • Zhang, Q., Phillips, R. P., Manzoni, S., Scott, R. L., Oishi, A. C., Finzi, A., Daly, E., Vargas, R., Novick, K. A. (2018) Changes In Photosynthesis And Soil Moisture Drive The Seasonal Soil Respiration-Temperature Hysteresis Relationship, Agricultural And Forest Meteorology, 259(21), 184-195. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.AGRFORMET.2018.05.005

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