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Field measurements, laboratory, and field experimental data for Sky Pond, Rocky Mountain National Park Colorado, nutrient and warming study, 2015-2017

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2015-07-01
End Date
2017-09-01

Citation

Oleksy, I.A. and Baron, J.S., 2021, Field measurements, laboratory, and field experimental data for Sky Pond, Rocky Mountain National Park Colorado, nutrient and warming study, 2015-2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9UR2K3E.

Summary

The data include measurements of chlorophyll a and algal stoichiometry from benthic algae collected from Sky Pond, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, in 2015-2017; results of nutrient diffusion experiments in Sky Pond including chlorophyll a and other pigments to identify chlorophytes, bacillariophytes, and myxomycetes, and results of a laboratory incubation using benthic chlorophytes to identify ecosystem responses (nitrogen uptake, net primary productivity, ecosystem respiration, net ecosystem productivity, and dissolved organic carbon production) under nutrient and temperature treatments.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Jill S Baron
Originator :
Isabella A Oleksy, Jill S Baron
Metadata Contact :
FORT Metadata Specialist
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems
SDC Data Owner :
Fort Collins Science Center
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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SkyExptMetadata.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		26.45 KB application/fgdc+xml
fieldata_CN_periphyton_export.csv 1.07 KB text/csv
incubation_master.csv 6.96 KB text/csv
NDS_master.csv 2.11 KB text/csv

Purpose

Benthic algae in historically unproductive mountain lakes are shifting from bacillariophyte-dominated to chlorophyte-dominated communities. These changes are taking place commensurate with increasing water temperatures and nutrient availability but the mechanisms promoting chlorophytes over bacillariophytes and the implications for ecosystem function are not well understood. These data were collected to test the effect of nutrient enrichment on the relative abundance of algal taxonomic groups in a field experiment and to test the interactive effects of nutrients and temperature on ecological function of chlorophyte-dominated benthic communities in a laboratory experiment.

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