Biodiversity & Ecology

Journal of the Division Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology of Plants , Institute for Plant Science and Microbiology, University of Hamburg.

Short Database Report Open Access

Vegetation Database of Central New Mexico – desert grass- and shrubland net-primary production quadrat data

Esteban Muldavin & John Mulhouse*

Article first published online: 24 September 2012

DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00225

*Corresponding author contact: mulhouse@sevilleta.unm.edu

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Biodiversity & Ecology (Biodivers. Ecol.)

Special Volume: Vegetation databases for the 21st century,
edited by Jürgen Dengler, Jens Oldeland, Florian Jansen, Milan Chytrý, Jörg Ewald, Manfred Finckh, Falko Glöckler, Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez, Robert K. Peet & Joop H.J. Schaminée

Volume 4, pages 438–438, Sep 12

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Keywords: black grama; blue grama; creosote; Chihuahuan Desert; Sevilleta; United States.

English

Abstract: The Vegetation Database of Central New Mexico (GIVD ID NA-US-011) is part of a long-term study to monitor net primary production across three distinct ecosystems in central New Mexico, United States: creosote dominant shrubland, black grama dominant grassland, and blue grama dominant grassland. Since 1999, sampling of permanent 1m x 1m plots has been performed twice per year (spring/autumn) within black grama grassland and three times per year (spring/autumn/winter) within creosote shrubland. Since 2002, sampling has also been performed twice per year (spring/autumn) within blue grama grassland. This sampling of 120 plots (40 per ecosystem) remains ongoing at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro County, New Mexico. Species are later harvested from adjacent areas to determine biomass and results have documented vegetation dynamics within and between these ecosystems.

Suggested citation:
Muldavin, E., Mulhouse, J. (2012): Vegetation Database of Central New Mexico – desert grass- and shrubland net-primary production quadrat data. – In: Dengler, J., Oldeland, J., Jansen, F., Chytrý, M., Ewald, J., Finckh, M., Glöckler, F., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Peet, R.K., Schaminée, J.H.J. [Eds.]: Vegetation databases for the 21st century. – Biodiversity & Ecology 4: 438–438. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00225.