Vegetation and soils monitoring data for Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona: 2009-2023 - internal

This dataset contains long-term monitoring data for terrestrial vegetation and soils for Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (2009-2023). Monitoring of terrestrial vegetation and soils provides information on several high-priority vital signs in parks of the National Park Service’s Chihuahuan Desert Network (CHDN) and Sonoran Desert Network (SODN) parks, including vegetation dynamics, plant lifeform abundance, status and trends of established invasive exotic plants, soil compaction, soil aggregate stability, soil cover (including bare ground), and biological soil crusts (biocrusts). Because vegetation and soils are closely interrelated, it is necessary to monitor them in conjunction with each other in order to achieve a more complete picture of ecological function. The overall goal of SODN/CHDN terrestrial vegetation and soils monitoring is to ascertain broad-scale changes in vegetation and dynamic soils properties in the context of changes in other ecological drivers, stressors, and processes, as well as focal resources of interest.

本数据集包含2009年至2023年间针对管风琴仙人掌国家纪念园（Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument）开展的陆地植被与土壤长期监测数据。陆地植被与土壤监测可为美国国家公园管理局（National Park Service）所辖奇瓦瓦沙漠网络（Chihuahuan Desert Network，CHDN）与索诺兰沙漠网络（Sonoran Desert Network，SODN）内的各公园，提供多项高优先级关键监测指标的数据支撑，监测内容涵盖植被动态、植物生活型丰度、已定植外来入侵植物的现状与变化趋势、土壤压实度、土壤团聚体稳定性、土壤覆盖度（含裸地）以及生物土壤结皮（biological soil crusts，biocrusts）等。由于植被与土壤密切相关，需对二者开展协同监测，以全面掌握生态系统功能的完整图景。索诺兰沙漠网络与奇瓦瓦沙漠网络的陆地植被及土壤监测的总体目标，是在其他生态驱动因子、胁迫因子与生态过程以及重点关注目标资源发生变化的背景下，探明植被与动态土壤属性的大范围变化情况。