Annual precipitation and photo-derived vegetation and litter cover (2013-2021) used for analysis in the manuscript “GROWING GRASSES IN THE DESERT: CROSS-SCALE INTERACTIONS LEAD TO STATE CHANGE REVERSAL IN DRYLANDS”

This dataset contains water year precipitation collected from
meteorological stations, litter and vegetation cover values derived
from overhead photos, and litter and soil accumulation in lateral
photos in a long-term experiment (2013-2021) of cross-scale
interactions (CSIs) at the Jornada Basin LTER site in southern New
Mexico, U.S.A. Manipulations were initiated in 2013 at 15
experimental blocks, each with 4 treatment plots: plant-scale
herbicide of mesquite shrubs, patch-scale connectivity modifiers
(ConMods), herbicide + ConMods, control without manipulations.
Litter, soil, and vegetation cover were estimated using repeat
overhead photographs of microplots within treatment and control
plots. Litter and soil accumulation were estimated from lateral
photos of ConMods. Daily precipitation data collected from 13
meteorological stations were used to calculate water year (1
October-30 September) precipitation from 2013 through 2021. This
dataset provides supporting data for the manuscript "GROWING
GRASSES IN THE DESERT: CROSS-SCALE INTERACTIONS LEAD TO STATE CHANGE
REVERSAL IN DRYLANDS" by Peters et al.