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

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