Plant traits, productivity, biomass and soil properties from forest sites in the Pacific Northwest, 1999-2014.

ABSTRACT: Plant trait measurements are needed for evaluating ecological responses to environmental conditions and for ecosystem process model development, parameterization, and testing. We present a standardized dataset integrating measurements from projects conducted by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research and Regional Analysis- Pacific Northwest (TERRA-PNW) research group between 1999 and 2014 across Oregon and Northern California, where measurements were collected for scaling and modeling regional terrestrial carbon processes with models such as Biome-BGC and the Community Land Model. The dataset contains measurements of specific leaf area, leaf longevity, leaf carbon and nitrogen for 35 tree and shrub species derived from more than 1,200 branch samples collected from over 200 forest plots, includi

SUBMITTER: Berner LT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4718046 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature