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Title: TOS Site Characterizaon Report: Domain 18 Date: 11/20/2018 NEON Doc. #: NEON.DOC.003901 Author: R.Krauss Revision: B TOS SITE CHARACTERIZATION REPORT: DOMAIN 18 PREPARED BY ORGANIZATION DATE Rachel Krauss SCI 05/14/2018 Courtney Meier SCI 05/14/2018 Michael Paerson SCI 01/27/2017 Oliver Smith SCI 10/27/2017 APPROVALS ORGANIZATION APPROVAL DATE Kate Thibault SCI 11/14/2018 Mike Stewart SYS 11/14/2018 RELEASED BY ORGANIZATION RELEASE DATE Judy Salazar CM 11/20/2018 See configuraon management system for approval history. The Naonal Ecological Observatory Network is a project solely funded by the Naonal Science Foundaon and managed under cooperave agreement by Baelle. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendaons expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Naonal Science Foundaon. Template_NEON.DOC.004243 Rev H Title: TOS Site Characterizaon Report: Domain 18 Date: 11/20/2018 NEON Doc. #: NEON.DOC.003901 Author: R.Krauss Revision: B CHANGE RECORD REVISION DATE ECO# DESCRIPTION OF CHANGE A 03/05/2018 ECO-05392 Inial Release • Added percent cover of bryophyte to the plant diversity table B 11/20/2018 ECO-05657 • Added range of core depths to BARR Below- ground Biomass Tables Template_NEON.DOC.004243 Rev H Title: TOS Site Characterizaon Report: Domain 18 Date: 11/20/2018 NEON Doc. #: NEON.DOC.003901 Author: R.Krauss Revision: B TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 DESCRIPTION 1 1.1 Purpose .............................................. 1 1.2 Scope ................................................ 1 2 RELATED DOCUMENTS AND ACRONYMS 1 2.1 Applicable Documents ....................................... 1 2.2 Reference Documents ....................................... 1 2.3 Acronyms .............................................. 2 3 DOMAIN 18 OVERVIEW: TUNDRA DOMAIN 3 4 CORE SITE- TOOLIK (TOOL) 4 4.1 TOS Spaal Sampling Design .................................... 6 4.2 Sampling Season Characterizaon: TOOL .............................. 10 4.3 Belowground Biomass ....................................... 12 4.3.1 Site-Specific Methods .................................... 12 4.4 Plant Characterizaon and Phenology Species Selecon ...................... 12 4.4.1 Site-Specific Methods .................................... 12 4.4.2 Results ........................................... 12 4.5 Beetles ............................................... 16 4.5.1 Site-Specific Methods .................................... 16 4.5.2 Results ........................................... 16 4.6 Mosquitoes ............................................. 19 4.6.1 Site-Specific Methods .................................... 19 4.6.2 Results ........................................... 19 4.7 Ticks ................................................ 20 4.7.1 Site-Specific Methods .................................... 20 4.8 Species Reference Lists ....................................... 20 5 RELOCATABLE SITE 1- BARROW ENVIRONMENTAL OBSERVATORY (BARR) 22 5.1 TOS Spaal Sampling Design .................................... 23 5.2 Sampling Season Characterizaon: BARR .............................. 27 5.3 Belowground Biomass ....................................... 29 5.3.1 Site-Specific Methods .................................... 29 5.3.2 Results ........................................... 29 5.4 Plant Characterizaon and Phenology Species Selecon ...................... 31 5.4.1 Site-Specific Methods .................................... 31 5.4.2 Results ........................................... 32 5.5 Species Reference Lists ....................................... 34 6 REFERENCES 35 7 APPENDIX A: DATA PRODUCT NUMBERS 35 i Title: TOS Site Characterizaon Report: Domain 18 Date: 11/20/2018 NEON Doc. #: NEON.DOC.003901 Author: R.Krauss Revision: B LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES Table 1 NLCD land cover classes and area within the TOS site boundary at TOOL. ........... 7 Table 2 NLCD land cover classes and TOS plot numbers at TOOL. ................... 8 Table 3 Number of Distributed Base Plots per NLCD land cover class per protocol at TOOL. ...... 8 Table 4 Number of Tower Plots per protocol at TOOL. ......................... 9 Table 5 Average MODIS-EVI greenness dates for the NEON TOOL site, based on data from 2003-2013 (DOY, with MM/DD in parentheses). ................................ 11 Table 6 Site plant characterizaon and phenology species summary at TOOL. ............. 12 Table 7 Per plot breakdown of species richness, diversity, and herbaceous cover at TOOL. ...... 15 Table 8 Beetle idenficaon results at TOOL. ............................. 16 Table 9 Mosquito idenficaon results at TOOL. ........................... 20 Table 10 NLCD land cover classes and area within the TOS site boundary at BARR. ........... 25 Table 11 NLCD land cover classes and TOS plot numbers at BARR. ................... 26 Table 12 Number of Distributed Base plots per NLCD land cover class per protocol at BARR. ...... 26 Table 13 Number of Tower Plots per protocol at BARR. ......................... 27 Table 14 Average MODIS-EVI greenness dates for the NEON BARR site, based on data from 2003-2013 (DOY, with MM/DD in parentheses). ................................ 28 Table 15 Fine root mass per depth increment (cm) at BARR. ...................... 30 Table 16 Cumulave fine root mass as a funcon of depth (cm) at BARR. ................ 30 Table 17 Fine root biomass sampling summary data at BARR. ..................... 31 Table 18 Site plant characterizaon and phenology species summary at BARR. ............. 32 Table 19 Per plot breakdown of species richness, diversity, and herbaceous cover at BARR. ...... 33 Table 20 NEON data product names and descripons. ......................... 36 Figure 1 NEON project map with Domain 18 highlighted in red. .................... 3 Figure 2 Site boundaries within Domain 18. .............................. 4 Figure 3 Phenocamera image for TOOL. The phenocamera is located at the top of the NEON tower and faces north. Phenocamera images are available at hps://phenocam.sr.unh.edu/webcam/network/table/. ...................... 5 Figure 4 Map of TOS plot centroids within the NEON TOS sampling boundary at TOOL. ........ 6 Figure 5 Map of the tower airshed and TOS plot centroids at TOOL. .................. 7 Figure 6 MODIS-EVI greenness (y-axis = EVI rao) as a funcon of me (x-axis = DOY) for the years 2003-2013 at the NEON TOOL site. ................................. 11 Figure 7 Phenocamera image for BARR. The phenocamera is located at the top of the NEON tower and faces north. Phenocamera images are available at hps://phenocam.sr.unh.edu/webcam/network/table/. ...................... 22 Figure 8 Map of TOS plot centroids within the NEON TOS sampling boundary at BARR. ........ 24 Figure 9 Map of the tower airshed and TOS plot centroids at BARR. .................. 25 Figure 10 MODIS-EVI greenness (y-axis = EVI rao) as a funcon of me (x-axis = DOY) for the years 2003-2013 at the NEON BARR site. ................................. 28 Figure 11 Cumulave root mass by core depth at BARR. ........................ 31 ii Title: TOS Site Characterizaon Report: Domain 18 Date: 11/20/2018 NEON Doc. #: NEON.DOC.003901 Author: R.Krauss Revision: B 1 DESCRIPTION 1.1 Purpose Domain and site-specific informaon collected and described here is used to inform the execuon of protocols for the NEON Terrestrial Observaon System (TOS), and complements the official NEON TOS data products generated from each site. In addion, the TOS spaal layout and plot allocaon is described for each site within the domain. 1.2 Scope This document includes any site specific characterizaon methods and the results of characterizaon efforts for each of the two sites in the Tundra domain. For more informaon about the sampling methods, reference the TOS Site Characterizaon Methods Document (RD[06]). The geographic coordinates for all TOS sampling locaons can be found in the Reference Documents area of the NEON Data Portal and are provided with TOS data product downloads. 2 RELATED DOCUMENTS AND ACRONYMS 2.1 Applicable Documents Applicable documents contain informaon that shall be applied in the current document. Examples are higher level requirements documents, standards, rules and regulaons. AD[01] NEON.DOC.004300 EHSS Policy, Program, and Management Plan AD[02] NEON.DOC.050005 Field Operaons Job Instrucon Training Plan AD[03] NEON.DOC.000909 TOS Science Design for Ground Beetle Abundance and Diversity AD[04] NEON.DOC.000910 TOS Science Design for Mosquito Abundance, Diversity and Phenology AD[05] NEON.DOC.000912 TOS Science Design for Plant Diversity AD[06] NEON.DOC.000915 TOS Science Design for Small Mammal Abundance and Diversity AD[07] NEON.DOC.000914 TOS Science Design for Plant Biomass and Producvity AD[08] NEON.DOC.000001 NEON Observatory Design 2.2 Reference Documents Reference documents contain informaon complemenng, explaining, detailing, or otherwise supporng the in- formaon included in the current document. Page 1 of 37 Title: TOS Site Characterizaon Report: Domain 18 Date: 11/20/2018 NEON Doc. #: NEON.DOC.003901 Author: R.Krauss Revision: B RD[01] NEON.DOC.000008 NEON Acronym List RD[02] NEON.DOC.000243 NEON Glossary of Terms RD[03] NEON.DOC.000913 TOS Science Design for Spaal Sampling RD[04] NEON.DOC.011050 TIS Site Characterizaon Report RD[05] NEON.DOC.001671 AIS Site Characterizaon Report RD[06] NEON.DOC.003885 TOS Site Characterizaon Methods RD[07] NEON.DOC.000481 TOS Protocol and Procedure: Small Mammal Sampling RD[08] NEON.DOC.014041 TOS Protocol and Procedure: Breeding Landbird