Desert Uplands 1 Management Event Data Collection

ALTAR site Desert Uplands 1 provides a spatiotemporal summary of significant land management events in a managed agroecosystem. The collection focuses on events like grazing, tillage, harvest, and burning that affect carbon and water transport or eddy covariance assumptions. Data is processed by the ALTAR network to enable sharing and analysis across multiple sites, with access available on request.

Use Cases

• Calibrating eddy covariance flux calculations based on documented management event periods.
• Modeling lateral carbon and water transport from agroecosystems based on event types like grazing or harvest.
• Analyzing long-term management impacts on ecosystem function using historical event records.
• Integrating denatured management event timelines into cross-site comparative studies.

Strengths

• Focuses on specific, impactful events like grazing, tillage, mechanical harvest, and burning.
• Data is processed for cross-site analysis through translation and denaturing procedures.
• Managed by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery platform.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Translation and denaturing of producer records by the ALTAR network.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-16 01:59:56.678564; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Desert Uplands 1 agroecosystem site.