Biological soil crust and vascular plant data from Horse Heaven Hills, Washington, measured in 1999 and remeasured in 2020

Description

This dataset contains biocrust lichen and moss cover at 186 plots at Horse Heaven Hills in Washington, USA. These data were measured by Jeanne Ponzetti in 1999 and remeasured by Heather Root in 2020. In addition to the biocrust data, we include site data such as elevation, location, wildfire history, and cover classes of dominant plants, rock and soil.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.6478dd88d34eac007b50ebf1.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9QA64QI

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  • environment
  • columbia-basin
  • biota
  • fires
  • cheatgrass
  • invasive-species
  • bromus-tectorum
  • horse-heaven-hills-washington
  • shrubland-ecosystems
  • usgs-6478dd88d34eac007b50ebf1
  • biological-soil-crusts

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