Greg Maurer

LTAR (USDA)

The USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range is a site in the USDA Long-Term Agroecosystem Research network (LTAR). This recently established network is developing a new data management infrastructure, and USDA Jornada data can be found in the links below. Resources A list of Jornada LTAR data resources can be found at Ag Data Commons. Note that […]

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NEON (JORN site)

The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) operates the JORN observatory site on the Jornada Experimental Range. Measurements began in 2017. Resources See the JORN site description (it is near the IBP exclosure) Browse JORN data in the NEON data catalog The JRN IM team is collecting some tutorials on using JORN data with R

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The promise of distributed global ecology experiments

In a new piece in the journal BioScience (Yahdjian et al. 2021), ecologists with ties to the DroughtNet and LTER networks argue that coordinated distributed experiments, such as the DroughtNet International Drought Experiment and NutNet, should expand to cover more of the globe. Such experiments hold great promise for understanding ecosystem sensitivity to a range

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