Gridded 1-hectare estimates of shrub community structure at the Jornada Basin LTER site derived from NAIP (2011) and LiDAR (2019) data
Roberts, Trevor H; Research Assistant; New Mexico State University
Hanan, Niall P; Professor; New Mexico State University
2023-12-14
Roberts, T.H. and N.P. Hanan. 2023. Gridded 1-hectare estimates of shrub community structure at the Jornada Basin LTER site derived from NAIP (2011) and LiDAR (2019) data ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/49bec3ac2917e494c5de4b19130e703b (Accessed 2024-05-16).
This dataset contains four raster maps of shrub community structure at the Jornada Basin LTER site in southern New Mexico U.S.A. These shrub structure estimates were created by combining an existing categorical shrub map (Ji et al. 2019) with USGS LiDAR shrub height estimates from 2019. The resulting raster dataset includes four bands of spatially aligned shrub volume, cover, height, and density estimates at one hectare resolution. Data are also included in tabular format, extracted from the 1 hectare grid upon which estimates were created. These shrub structure estimates are intended to facilitate analyses of habitat structure and community dynamics within the northern Chihuahuan Desert.
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