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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