AmeriFlux AmeriFlux US-Snd Sherman Island
- University of California, Berkeley
This is the AmeriFlux version of the carbon flux data for the site US-Snd Sherman Island. Site Description - The Sherman Island site is a 38-ha peatland pasture, west of the Delta, that is owned by the state and managed by the California Department of Water Resources. The site is degraded and heavily grazed with ~100 cattle in the area that circumscribes the main field and fetch. The island has been drained and farmed since the late 1800s. The soils of the Delta overlay deep peat that was sequestered over the Holocene period as sea-level rose and flooding of archaic wetlands prevented decomposition of roots and stems. Hence, the upper 10 m of peatland has been lost to decomposition, compaction, and subsidence. Today a mineral soil overlays a peat layer, which coincides with the general depth of the water table. This site was discontinued in 2015 as the land was converted into a restored wetland. A new site was established in 2016 nearby, US_Sne
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). AmeriFlux; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- NSF/California Department of Water Resources
- OSTI ID:
- 1246094
- Resource Relation:
- Related Information: Hatala, J. A., M. Detto, O. Sonnentag, S. J. Deverel, J. Verfaillie, and D. D. Baldocchi (2012), Greenhouse gas (CO2, CH4, H2O) fluxes from drained and flooded agricultural peatlands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 150, 1-18.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
FLUXNET-CH4 US-Snd Sherman Island
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dataset | January 2020 |
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