SGS-LTER Historical LTER Soil water - neutron probe: lysimeter field data (1983-1992) on the Central Plains Experimental Range, Nunn, Colorado, USA, ARS Study Number 10

This data package was produced by researchers
working on the Shortgrass Steppe Long Term
Ecological Research (SGS-LTER) Project,
administered at Colorado State University.
Long-term datasets and background information
(proposals, reports, photographs, etc.) on the
SGS-LTER project are contained in a comprehensive
project collection within the Digital Collections
of Colorado
(http://digitool.library.colostate.edu/R/?func=collections&collection_id=3429).
The data table and associated metadata document,
which is generated in Ecological Metadata
Language, may be available through other
repositories serving the ecological research
community and represent components of the larger
SGS-LTER project collection. Long-term (1985-1992) dynamics and spatial
variations in soil water below the evaporative
zone were evaluated for a shortgrass steppe with a
low and variable precipitation regime. Each of
sandy loam, clay loam, and two sandy clay loam
sites compromised a toposequence with upland,
midslope, and lowland positions. Soil water was
monitored at 15cm intervals providing estimates
covering 22.5 to 97.5 cm depths. Soil water
throughout the profile was highest in the clay
loam and lowest in the sandy loam. However, stored
soil water did not vary systematically among slope
positions. Additional information and referenced materials can be found:
http://hdl.handle.net/10217/82912