RestoreNet subplot data for 21 sites within major dryland ecoregions throughout the southwestern United States, 2018 - 2021

These data were compiled for a networked field-trial restoration experiment (RestoreNet) that spans the southwestern US, including 21 distributed field sites. The objective of our study was to understand the environmental factors and restoration practices (including seed mixes and soil manipulation) that increase plant establishment and survival to ultimate improve restoration outcomes in dryland environments. These data represent point-in-time plant density and height measurements at our field sites at the time of monitoring. These data were collected at 21 arid and semi-arid sites, located throughout Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and California. These data were collected by USGS Restoration Assessment and Monitoring...

Categories: Data; Tags: Arizona, Botany, California, Chihuahuan Desert, Climatology, All tags... Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Ecology, Geography, Information Sciences, Mojave Desert, New Mexico, Soil Sciences, Sonoran Desert, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, arid, atmospheric and climatic processes, biogeography, biota, climate change, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, data release, drylands, ecological modeling, ecological processes, ecological restoration, ecosystem monitoring, environment, environmental conditions, environmental variables, field inventory and monitoring, field sites, geoscientificInformation, grassland ecosystems, growth responses, monitoring, plant density, plant establishment, plant growth, plant height, plant responses, plant survival, plants (organisms), post-restoration, precipitation (atmospheric), remediation, restoration experiment, restoration seeding, restoration treatments, restoration variables, seed mixes, seedling emergence, seedling survival, semi-arid, site characteristics, soil resources, soil texture, southwestern US, spatial environmental variation, temporal change, temporal environmental variation, weedy species, zero-inflated data, Fewer tags

Vegetation Surveys, All Field Sites, 2012-2014

We conducted vegetation surveys concurrently with elevation surveys at every fourth elevation point (~25% of the elevation points) (Figure 5). We visually assessed percent cover of all plant species within a 0.25 m2 quadrat, and recorded the average and maximum height (measured to the nearest centimeter) of each species. Total plant cover in a plot could exceed 100% due to vegetation layering. Vascular plant nomenclature generally follows Baldwin et al. (2012) and Cook et al. (2013). We located 69 tidal wetland species in 2,154 vegetation plots across the nine estuaries in the study. Common species included Carex lyngbyei, Sarcocornia perennis, Distichlis spicata, Deschampsia cespitosa, Juncus balticus and Potentilla...

Categories: Data; Tags: Bandon, Coos Bay, Grays Harbor, Nisqually, Northwest CASC, All tags... Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Port Susan, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, Siletz, Skokomish, Washington, Water, Coasts and Ice, Wetlands, Willapa, percent cover, plant communities, plant height, Fewer tags

Community-level riparian plant traits, Colorado River, Grand Canyon, 2013-2015—Data

These data were compiled based on field observations and available literature. Field observations of plant cover were made in September and October of 2013 and 2014, while trait measurements were made in September and October of 2014 and 2015. Field data was collected on sandbars along the Colorado River through Grand Canyon between river miles 0 and 226. Field measurements of specific leaf area, stem specific gravity, and total cover. Plant height was taken from the Flora of North America, the Jepson Desert Manual, or A Utah Flora. Seed mass values were available from the Kew Seed Information Database (http://data.kew.org/sid/). Photosynthetic pathway was compiled from published literature. The trait values were...

Tags: Arizona, Colorado River, Community assembly, Community-level trait value, Diamond Creek, All tags... Environmental gradient, Exceedance probability, Field data, Field measurements, Field observations, Flood disturbance adaptation, Functional traits, Glen Canyon Dam, Grand Canyon, Inundation, Lees Ferry, Literature review, Marble Canyon, Photosynthetic pathway, Plant cover, Plant height, Relative species cover, Riparian plants, Sandbars, Seed mass, Species cover, Specific leaf area, Stem specific gravity, Stress adaptation, Total cover, Trait measurements, Trait values, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Fewer tags