Greetings colleagues,
Those of you interested in plant ecology, ecological modeling, and forest carbon/nitrogen cycling might appreciate a newly
released dataset that provides standardized and geo-located measurements of forest plant traits, productivity, biomass, and
soil properties for over 200 sites spread across conifer-dominated forests in Oregon and northern California. The dataset
brings together measurements from multiple projects conducted between 1999 and 2014 by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research
and Regional Analysis- Pacific Northwest (TERRA-PNW) research group at Oregon State University under the leadership of Dr.
Bev Law. The measurements were specifically collected for characterizing, scaling, and modeling regional forest ecosystem
carbon cycling processes and can be used for parameterizing and validating ecological models (e.g. Biome-BCG, Community
Land Model), evaluating species adaptations to environmental conditions, etc.
The NACP TERRA-PNW: Forest Plant Traits, NPP, Biomass, and Soil Properties (1999-2014) dataset is now publicly
available through the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center and can be accessed here:
http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1292
We also have a new article in Nature Scientific Data that describes the dataset and provides statistical summaries of
several leaf traits (e.g. SLA, C, N, lifespan) by species and genus, which can be accessed here:
http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata20162
We hope that you find this dataset useful in your research and appreciate any feedback that you provide.
Logan Berner and Bev Law
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Logan Berner
NASA Earth and Space Science Fellow
Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society
Oregon State University
email: [email protected]
