Soil, geologic, geomorphic, climate, and vegetation data from long-term monitoring plots (2009 - 2018) in Arches, Canyonlands, and Capitol Reef National Parks, Utah, USA

These data (all data tables for the data release) represent a suite of biotic and abiotic variables that characterized plant communities and the geologic, geomorphic, edaphic, climatic, and land use history context in which distinct plant communities occur. In 2009, the National Park Service's Inventory and Monitoring program for the Northern Colorado Plateau Network (NCPN) began measuring vegetation cover and site characteristics at monitoring plots stratified across different vegetation types within national parks on the Colorado Plateau. NCPN biologists remeasured vegetation cover at these plots in a rotating panel over the following decade. In 2019, U. S. Geological Survey geologists and soil scientists collected/compiled...

Tags: Arches National Park, Botany, Canyonlands National Park, Capitol Reef National Park, Climatology, All tags... Colorado Plateau, Ecology, Emery County, Geography, Grand County, Information Sciences, NMDS analysis, San Juan County, Sevier County, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Wayne County, air temperature, aridity, bare ground, biological soil crusts, biota, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, data release, dryland ecosystems, ecosystem monitoring, ecosystems, field experiments, field inventory and monitoring, field measurements, field observations, functional group cover, genus, geomorphology, grassland, grassland ecosystems, grazing, ground cover, hierarchical clustering analysis, lichens, line-point intercept measurements, mosses, multivariate statistical analysis, national parks, nonmetric multidimensional scaling analysis, pedogenesis, plants (organisms), plot sampling, precipitation (atmospheric), precipitation measurement, rainfall measurement, snowfall measurement, random forest model, rocks, rocks and deposits, scientific names, shrubland ecosystems, slope, soil formation, soil physical properties, soil sciences, soils, species, species composition, topographic wetness index, vegetation, vegetation cover, woodland, Fewer tags

Meteorological measurements from five weather stations in Grand and San Juan Counties in southeastern Utah (ver. 2.0, April 2023)

These data were compiled from six automated weather stations that together provide several points in the meteorological record across a latitudinal and elevational gradient in southeastern Utah. Recorded data from these weather stations are associated with several different studies. Meteorological data are important for quantifying short term weather events as well as longer term climate trends. Spatially separated precipitation gauges allow for better characterization of the heterogeneity of precipitation events. These data were collected from six locations running from north to south in southeast Utah. All of the weather stations use Campbell Scientific data loggers and data are collected daily via telecommunications...

Categories: Data; Tags: Canyonlands National Park, Castle Valley, Kerby Lane, La Sal Mountains, Moab, All tags... Monticello, Mount Laurel, Needles District, Parriott Mesa, Porcupine Canyon, Resource Blvd, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), air temperature, atmospheric and climatic processes, barometric pressure, battery voltage, climate change, climate trends, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, data logger, data release, dryland systems, elevation, elevational gradient, environment, evapotranspiration, field inventory and monitoring, latitudinal gradient, location, meteorological data, meteorology, net radiation, photosynthetic photon flux density, precipitation (atmospheric), precipitation gauge, relative humidity, solar radiation, southeastern Utah, spatial location, terrestrial ecosystems, topography, volumetric water content, weather events, weather station, wind, wind direction, wind speed, Fewer tags

Biocrust cover, vegetation, and climate data from a protected grassland within Canyonlands National Park, Utah (ver. 2.0, Sept. 2023)

These tabular data were compiled for/to monitor vegetation and biocrust cover in a never grazed grassland located in Canyonlands National Park. An objective, or objectives, of our study was to document potential changes in biocrust and vegetation cover and species composition as related to changes in land use and climate change. These data represent a timeseries of long-term vegetation and biocrust monitoring plots, dating from 1996 to 2021. These data were collected at/in Virginia Park, Needles District of Canyonlands National Park, Utah. These data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Research Center in coordination with the US National Park Service. Data were collected via field...

Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Tags: Canyonlands National Park, Colorado Plateau, Needles District, San Juan County, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Utah, Virginia Park, air temperature, atmospheric and climatic processes, biocrust cover, biogeography, biological soil crusts, biota, climate change, dryland ecosystems, ecosystem monitoring, ecosystems, effects of climate change, field experiments, field inventory and monitoring, field observations, grassland, land use change, long-term ecological monitoring, long-term monitoring plots, never grazed grassland, plot sampling, point-intercept measurements, precipitation (atmospheric), precipitation measurement, rainfall measurement, snowfall measurement, species composition, tabular data, timeseries, vegetation, vegetation cover, weather monitoring, weather observations, weather station, Fewer tags

Plant cover, climate, grazing disturbance, and soil class data from 1991-2020 compiled from remotely sensed data on two retired grazing allotments in Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, USA

These data were compiled for use by researchers and land managers in studies of post-grazing change in Capitol Reef National Park. The data were initially used for and are associated with the McNellis et al., 2023 (see Larger Work Citation). Objective(s) of our study were to study landscape change (specifically plant cover measured through remote sensing) through time in Capitol Reef National Park. These data represent land cover and eight explanatory covariates measured through remote sensing over 21-30 years on two grazing allotments in Capitol Reef National Park, USA. These data were compiled and created for Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, USA from December 2020 to December 2022. These data were created by...

Categories: Data; Tags: Botany, Capitol Reef National Monument, Climatology, Colorado Plateau, Ecology, All tags... Geography, Information Sciences, Remote Sensing, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, air temperature, allotment retirement, atmospheric and climatic processes, biota, climate, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, cost-distance, data release, edaphic, environment, fractional snow cover, geoscientificInformation, grazing allotments, grazing intensity, habitat alteration and disturbance, land cover change, land management, land use and land cover, livestock grazing, livestock removal, location, post-grazing landscape, precipitation (atmospheric), snow and ice cover, soil geomorphic unit, soil resources, south-central Utah, spatiotemporal extents, topography, Fewer tags

Meteorological measurements from five locations within the Badger Wash study area near Mack, Colorado (ver. 2.0, April 2023)

These data are records collected from an automated weather station and four stand-alone tipping bucket rain gauges each with their own data logger that were in operation between February 2005 and December 2019 in the Badger Wash Study Area near Mack, Colorado as part of a larger project funded by the Bureau of Land Management. These files are hourly-interval data from the automated weather station with meteorological parameters of air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, wind direction, wind gusts, photon flux density and rainfall as well as from a soil pit with temperature and soil moisture measurements at 5, 10, 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100 cm deep. The standalone tipping-bucket rain gauge data which records...

Categories: Data; Tags: Badger Wash, Badger Wash Met Station, Badger Wash Study Area, Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, All tags... Mack, Mesa County, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), air temperature, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, elevation, field inventory and monitoring, land ownership, leaf wetness, meteorology, meterological measurements, micrometeorological conditions, plot data, precipitation, precipitation (atmospheric), precipitation measurement, rain, rain gauges, rain intensity, rainfall measurement, relative humidity, soil temperature, topography, volumetric water content, water content, watershed, weather, weather observations, weather station, wind, wind direction, wind speed, Fewer tags