Vegetation and soils monitoring data for Fort Davis National Historic Site, Texas: 2011-2021 - internal

This dataset contains long-term monitoring data for terrestrial vegetation and soils for Fort Davis National Historic Site (2011-2021). 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.