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Title: AmeriFlux AmeriFlux US-Oho Oak Openings

Abstract

This is the AmeriFlux version of the carbon flux data for the site US-Oho Oak Openings. Site Description - The Ohio Oak Openings site is located within the Oak Openings Preserve Metropark of northwest Ohio, one of the few remaining oak woodlands/savanna/prairie complexes in the Midwest. Declared one of the "One of America's Last Great Places" by the Nature Conservancy the area consists of four main vegetation types: Oak Woodlands, Oak Savanna, Floodplain Forests and Wet Prairies. The stand surrounding the tower is mainly Oak Woodlands dominated by red, white and black oaks with a relatively abundant population of red maples indicating high soil moisture retention and a history of limited fire disturbances. Most of the area was cleared for agriculture at the time of Euro-American settlements in the mid to late-19th century. A large fraction of the cleared land was later abandoned due to the poor sandy soils. These areas reverted to Oak Savannas and in cases where fire was limited progressively made the transition to Oak Woodlands. Today patches of the forest are burned every few years as part of prescribed burning cycle to control stand density.

Authors:
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  1. University of Toledo / Michigan State University
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). AmeriFlux; University of Toledo / Michigan State University
Sponsoring Org.:
USDA
OSTI Identifier:
1246089
Resource Type:
Data
Resource Relation:
Related Information: Noormets, A, McNulty, SG, DeForest, JL, Sun, G, Li, Q, Chen, J. 2008. Drought during canopy development has lasting effect on annual carbon balance in a deciduous temperate forest. New Phytologist 179: 818-828.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Citation Formats

Chen, Jiquan, Chu, Housen, and Noormets, Asko. AmeriFlux AmeriFlux US-Oho Oak Openings. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.17190/AMF/1246089.
Chen, Jiquan, Chu, Housen, & Noormets, Asko. AmeriFlux AmeriFlux US-Oho Oak Openings. United States. https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1246089
Chen, Jiquan, Chu, Housen, and Noormets, Asko. 2016. "AmeriFlux AmeriFlux US-Oho Oak Openings". United States. https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1246089. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1246089.
@article{osti_1246089,
title = {AmeriFlux AmeriFlux US-Oho Oak Openings},
author = {Chen, Jiquan and Chu, Housen and Noormets, Asko},
abstractNote = {This is the AmeriFlux version of the carbon flux data for the site US-Oho Oak Openings. Site Description - The Ohio Oak Openings site is located within the Oak Openings Preserve Metropark of northwest Ohio, one of the few remaining oak woodlands/savanna/prairie complexes in the Midwest. Declared one of the "One of America's Last Great Places" by the Nature Conservancy the area consists of four main vegetation types: Oak Woodlands, Oak Savanna, Floodplain Forests and Wet Prairies. The stand surrounding the tower is mainly Oak Woodlands dominated by red, white and black oaks with a relatively abundant population of red maples indicating high soil moisture retention and a history of limited fire disturbances. Most of the area was cleared for agriculture at the time of Euro-American settlements in the mid to late-19th century. A large fraction of the cleared land was later abandoned due to the poor sandy soils. These areas reverted to Oak Savannas and in cases where fire was limited progressively made the transition to Oak Woodlands. Today patches of the forest are burned every few years as part of prescribed burning cycle to control stand density.},
doi = {10.17190/AMF/1246089},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1246089}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}

Works referenced in this record:

FLUXNET2015 US-Oho Oak Openings
dataset, January 2015