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UAS products and field data for biocrust soil heterogeneity research, Beef Basin, Utah

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2018-06-02

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Villarreal, M.L., and Havrilla, C.A., 2024, UAS products and field data for biocrust soil heterogeneity research, Beef Basin, Utah: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P1KQJGVN.

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This data release contains mapped UAS products and a spreadsheet of field plot observations for the paper: Havrilla, C.A. and M.L. Villarreal. 2024. Soil cover heterogeneity associated with biocrusts predicts patch-level plant diversity patterns. Landscape Ecology. Specifically the zipped folder contains a CSV of field data, classified Unoccupied Aerial Systems (UAS) imagery for 3 study plots and Soil Cover Heterogeneity maps generated from each of the classified maps.

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Soil resource heterogeneity drives plant species diversity patterns at local and landscape scales. In drylands, biocrusts are patchily distributed and contribute to soil resource heterogeneity important for plant establishment and growth. Yet, we have a limited understanding of how such heterogeneity may relate to patterns of plant diversity and community structure. These field and remote sensing datasets were used to explore relationships between biocrust-associated soil cover heterogeneity and plant diversity patterns in a cool desert ecosystem. These raster datasets and associated field data were collected to 1) map the distribution of biocrust, soil and vegetation cover, and 2) estimate soil cover heterogeneity (SCH) at study sites in Beef Basin, Utah, during June, 2018.

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This work is marked with Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).

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