About this Dataset

Patterns Of Precipitation And Productivity On Various Topographic Positions On The Central Plains Experimental Range, Nunn, Colorado

Thirty-six years of aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) data collected across a topographic sequence in the semiarid shortgrass steppe of North America to examine patterns and drivers of spatiotemporal variability in ANPP. ANPP data were collected from the 6,500 ha USDA-Central Plains Experimental Range (CPER), which is part of the Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR; 2012-present; https://ltar.ars.usda.gov/) network, a former Long-Term Ecological Research station (LTER, 1983-2012), and located in the shortgrass steppe of north-central Colorado, USA. Additional information and referenced materials about many of the long-term studies initiated on the CPER can be found: https://dx.doi.org/10.25675/10217/81141.

The topography at the CPER is characterized by gently rolling hills, and the topographic positions for data collection were focused along a catena in one of the most common ecological sites on the CPER, Loamy Plains (ID: R067BY002CO; NRCS, 2020). The plant community included four herbaceous plant functional types (PFTs): 1) perennial, warm-season, C4 grasses (primarily Bouteloua gracilis [Willd. ex Kunth] Lag ex Griffiths and B. dactyloides [Nutt.] J.T. Columbus), 2) perennial, cool-season, C3 grasses (primarily Pascopyrum smithii [Rydb] A. Love and Hesperostipa comata [Trin. & Rupr.] Barkworth ssp. comata), 3) cool-season, annual grass (Vulpia octoflora [Walter] Rydb.), and 4) forbs (primarily Sphaeralcea coccinea [Nutt.] Rydb.). Shrubs, subshrubs, and cactus were present but do not represent a large component of total ANPP and were not included in this study.

Daily precipitation data were obtained from a long-term (1979-2018) precipitation gauge associated with the National Atmospheric Deposition program (Site ID: NTN-CO22; http://nadp.slh.wisc.edu/), located on site. Missing precipitation data were gap-filled using CPER headquarters data (1939-2018), or from the Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) rain gauge (1997-2018, Site Number: 2017; https://wcc.sc.egov.usda.gov/), depending on proximity and temporal overlap. Following gap-filling, precipitation data were omitted if >10% of the time series was missing for each focal time period (e.g. fall or spring).

Resources in this dataset:

Resource Title: Gap filled precipitation data from the Central Plains Experimental Range, Nunn, Colorado from 1980-2018.

File Name: CPER-PPT_gapfilled_1980-2018.csv

Resource Title: Data Dictionary for Gap filled precipitation data from the Central Plains Experimental Range, Nunn, Colorado from 1980-2018.

File Name: CPER-PPT_DataDictionary.csv

Resource Title: Long-Term aboveground net primary production for functional group types on the Central Plains Experimental Range, Nunn, Colorado from 1983-2018.

File Name: CPER-LTNPP_bypft_1983-2018.csv

Resource Title: Data Dictionary for Long-Term aboveground net primary production for functional group types on the Central Plains Experimental Range, Nunn, Colorado from 1983-2018.

File Name: CPER-LTNPP_bypft_1983-2018_DataDictionary.csv

Resource Title: Dictionary of species within each functional group type in the LTNPP data collected on the Central Plains Experimental Range, Nunn, Colorado from 1983-2018.

File Name: CPER-LTNPP_bypft_1983-2018_SppInFG_DataDictionary.csv
Organization: Department of Agriculture
Last updated: 2024-03-30T11:58:47.069906
Tags: annual-precipitation, ars, data-gov, earth-science-biosphere-terrestrial-ecosystems-grasslands, np215, primary-productivity, topography

Tables

CPER-LTNPP Bypft 1983-2018

@usgov.usda_gov_patterns_of_precipitation_and_productivity_on_56c55056.cper_ltnpp_bypft_1983_2018

22.32 kB
9,324 rows
6 columns

CREATE TABLE cper_ltnpp_bypft_1983_2018 (
  "year" BIGINT,
  "site" VARCHAR,
  "transect" BIGINT,
  "plot" BIGINT,
  "pft" VARCHAR,
  "anpp" DOUBLE
);

CPER-LTNPP Bypft 1983-2018 DataDictionary

@usgov.usda_gov_patterns_of_precipitation_and_productivity_on_56c55056.cper_ltnpp_bypft_1983_2018_datadictionary

3.57 kB
6 rows
3 columns

CREATE TABLE cper_ltnpp_bypft_1983_2018_datadictionary (
  "column_name" VARCHAR,
  "units" VARCHAR,
  "description" VARCHAR
);

CPER-LTNPP Bypft 1983-2018 SppInFG DataDictionary

@usgov.usda_gov_patterns_of_precipitation_and_productivity_on_56c55056.cper_ltnpp_bypft_1983_2018_sppinfg_datadictionary

5.96 kB
82 rows
4 columns

CREATE TABLE cper_ltnpp_bypft_1983_2018_sppinfg_datadictionary (
  "species" VARCHAR,
  "speciescode" VARCHAR,
  "functionalgroup" VARCHAR,
  "functionalgroupcode" VARCHAR
);

CPER-PPT DataDictionary

@usgov.usda_gov_patterns_of_precipitation_and_productivity_on_56c55056.cper_ppt_datadictionary

3.82 kB
3 rows
3 columns

CREATE TABLE cper_ppt_datadictionary (
  "column_name" VARCHAR,
  "unit" VARCHAR,
  "description" VARCHAR
);