Site data from observations of post-fire and thinned stands of piñon-juniper woodlands on the Colorado Plateau

These data were compiled to evaluate pinyon-juniper regeneration dynamics following stand-replacing wildfire and thinning treatments. Objectives of our study were to investigate vegetation community composition and tree recruitment in post-fire and post-thinning environments. These data represent plant and biological soil crust community composition and climatological records among intact, thinned, and burned pinyon–juniper woodlands. These data were collected in Mesa Verde National Park and Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park from 6/1/2021 to 6/10/2021 and from 03/1/2022 to 11/30/2022 at two burned and two intact pinyon-juniper ecosystems in Mesa Verde National Park only. These data were collected by the U.S. Geological...

Categories: Data; Tags: Botany, Colorado, Echo House (historical), Ecology, Geography, All tags... Information Sciences, Johnson Canyon, Juniperus osteosperma, Long Mesa, Mancos Canyon, Mesa Verde National Park, Montezuma County, Pinus edulis, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park, Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park, Wetherill Mesa, air temperature, biogeography, biological soil crusts, biota, burned forest, climate change, climatological differences, climatological records, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, community composition, community ecology, data release, ecosystem management, elevation, fires, forest ecosystems, forest management, intact forest, natural resource management, net radiation, photosynthetically active radiation, pinyon–juniper woodlands, plants (organisms), relative humidity, soil moisture, soil temperature, thinned forest, thinning management treatments, vascular plants, wildfire, Fewer tags