Shortgrass Steppe site, station Treatment 4 (grubs killed) for ESA study, study of plant density of Lappula redowskii in units of numberPerMeterSquared on a yearly timescale

The EcoTrends project was established in 2004 by Dr. Debra Peters
(Jornada Basin LTER, USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range) and
Dr. Ariel Lugo (Luquillo LTER, USDA-FS Luquillo Experimental Forest)
to support the collection and analysis of long-term ecological datasets.
The project is a large synthesis effort focused on improving the accessibility
and use of long-term data. At present, there are ~50 state and federally funded
research sites that are participating and contributing to the EcoTrends project,
including all 26 Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites and sites funded by
the USDA Agriculture Research Service (ARS), USDA Forest Service,
US Department of Energy, US Geological Survey (USGS) and numerous universities. Data from the EcoTrends project are available through an exploratory web portal
(http://www.ecotrends.info). This web portal enables the continuation of data
compilation and accessibility by users through an interactive web application.
Ongoing data compilation is updated through both manual and automatic
processing as part of the LTER Provenance Aware Synthesis Tracking
Architecture (PASTA). The web portal is a collaboration between the Jornada LTER
and the LTER Network Office. The following dataset from Shortgrass Steppe (SGS)
contains plant density of Lappula redowskii measurements in numberPerMeterSquared units
and were aggregated to a yearly timescale.

EcoTrends项目由黛布拉·彼得斯博士（隶属于美国农业部农业研究服务局（United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, USDA-ARS）霍纳达实验牧场的霍纳达盆地长期生态研究站（Long-Term Ecological Research, LTER））与阿里尔·卢戈博士（隶属于美国农业部林务局（United States Department of Agriculture - Forest Service, USDA-FS）卢奎洛实验林的卢奎洛长期生态研究站（Long-Term Ecological Research, LTER））于2004年创立，旨在支持长期生态数据集的采集与分析工作。
该项目是一项大型综合研究计划，核心目标在于提升长期生态数据的可获取性与利用效率。
目前，约有50个州级与联邦资助的研究站点参与并为EcoTrends项目贡献数据，其中涵盖全部26个长期生态研究（Long-Term Ecological Research, LTER）站点，以及由美国农业部农业研究服务局（Agricultural Research Service, ARS）、美国农业部林务局（Forest Service）、美国能源部（United States Department of Energy）、美国地质调查局（United States Geological Survey, USGS）和众多高校资助的站点。
EcoTrends项目的数据可通过探索性网络门户（http://www.ecotrends.info）获取，该门户依托交互式Web应用程序，支持用户持续开展数据汇编与数据获取工作。
作为长期生态研究溯源感知综合跟踪架构（Provenance Aware Synthesis Tracking Architecture, PASTA）的组成部分，持续推进的数据汇编工作通过手动与自动两种处理方式完成更新。
本网络门户是霍纳达LTER与LTER网络办公室的合作成果。
本项来自短草草原（Shortgrass Steppe, SGS）的数据集，包含以每平方米数量为单位的红氏倒提壶（Lappula redowskii）植物密度测量数据，且已按年度时间尺度完成聚合。