Flux Tower Measurements from a Deforested Savanna Farm

This release contains flux tower measurements of energy and mass exchange between the surface and atmosphere in a semi-arid eucalypt woodland, processed using PyFluxPro. The data covers a site established in 2011 as tropical savanna, which was converted to watermelon farmland in 2013 as part of a deforestation experiment measuring greenhouse gas exchange.

Use Cases

• Analyze Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) dynamics before and after the 2013 deforestation for watermelon production.
• Partition NEE into Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) and Ecosystem Respiration (ER) to study carbon flux changes from forest to farmland conversion.
• Model energy exchange using eddy covariance techniques in a semi-arid eucalypt woodland environment.
• Study greenhouse gas exchange trends over time at a site transitioning from Woody Savanna to agricultural land.

Strengths

• Data processed to a final, gap-filled product using the established PyFluxPro (v3.3.3) pipeline.
• Provides long-term temporal coverage from the station's establishment in August 2011.
• Focuses on a specific land-use change experiment, converting tropical savanna to watermelon farmland from 2013.

Limitations

• Specific data volume (row count, column count) and file sizes are unknown.
• Sample data and column schema are unavailable, hindering immediate assessment of data structure.
• Primary data formats are HTML and PNG, which may not be directly suitable for quantitative analysis without extracting underlying numerical data.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Eddy covariance techniques at a flux tower, processed using PyFluxPro as described in Isaac et al. (2017).

Time Range

From August 2011 onward, with active farmland conversion from 2013.

Freshness

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Geography

Semi-arid eucalypt woodland site in Australia (inferred from platform and tags).