1. The MARAS dataset, vegetation and soil characteristics of dryland rangelands across Patagonia
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Osiris Sofía, Virginia Massara, Daniela Ferrante, Donaldo Bran, Erwin Domínguez, Juan José Gaitán, Daniela Carola Echevarria, Lucas Ramiro Butti, Eder dos Santos, Paula Natalia Paredes, German Cariac, Anabella Fantozzi, Cecilia A. Caruso, Fernando Umaña, Fernando T. Maestre, Gabriel Oliva, Guillermo Carlos Garcia Martinez, Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ecología, and Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio 'Ramón Margalef'
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0106 biological sciences ,Grassland ecology ,Data Descriptor ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Biodiversity ,Suelo ,01 natural sciences ,purl.org/becyt/ford/1 [https] ,Soil ,purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5 [https] ,Soil data ,Environmental monitoring ,lcsh:Science ,2. Zero hunger ,VEGETACIÓN ,TIERRAS SECAS ,Vegetation ,Pastizales ,Computer Science Applications ,SUELOS ,PATAGONIA ,Geography ,Rangeland ,Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty ,Information Systems ,Statistics and Probability ,Región Patagónica ,Tierras de Secano ,Library and Information Sciences ,Dryland rangelands ,010603 evolutionary biology ,Biodiversidad ,Education ,Ecosystem services ,Ecosystem ,MARAS dataset ,Transect ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Land use ,Pastures ,Drylands ,15. Life on land ,Ecología ,Arid ,13. Climate action ,BASE DE DATOS ,lcsh:Q ,Physical geography ,Características del Sitio ,Site Factors ,Agroecology - Abstract
We present the MARAS (Environmental Monitoring of Arid and Semiarid Regions) dataset, which stores vegetation and soil data of 426 rangeland monitoring plots installed throughout Patagonia, a 624.500 km2 area of southern Argentina and Chile. Data for each monitoring plot includes basic climatic and landscape features, photographs, 500 point intercepts for vegetation cover, plant species list and biodiversity indexes, 50-m line-intercept transect for vegetation spatial pattern analysis, land function indexes drawn from 11 measures of soil surface characteristics and laboratory soil analysis (pH, conductivity, organic matter, N and texture). Monitoring plots were installed between 2007 and 2019, and are being reassessed at 5-year intervals (247 have been surveyed twice). The MARAS dataset provides a baseline from which to evaluate the impacts of climate change and changes in land use intensity in Patagonian ecosystems, which collectively constitute one of the world´s largest rangeland areas. This dataset will be of interest to scientists exploring key ecological questions such as biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships, plant-soil interactions and climatic controls on ecosystem structure and functioning., Measurement(s) vegetation layer • biodiversity assessment objective • concentration of carbon atom in soil • acidity of soil • concentration of nitrogen atom in soil • structure of soil Technology Type(s) quadrat sampling • line intercept sampling • visual observation method • Walkley-Black Method • pH measurement • Kjeldahl method • Bouyoucos method Factor Type(s) measurement time & location Sample Characteristic - Organism Plantae Sample Characteristic - Environment arid biome • arid subtropical Sample Characteristic - Location Patagonia Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12761936
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- 2020