Aboveground biomass of plant functional groups from a climate and land-use gradient in Mongolian rangelands, sampled in 2014 and 2015

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The data set features the variance of aboveground plant biomass along a 600km long gradient in Mongolian rangeland vegetation. The data was collected to study the role of climatic variability for the effects of grazing in rangelands. 15 sites were selected across a 600 km long precipitation gradient in Central Mongolia. At each site, 5 subplots were sampled within each distance of 50m, 150m, 350, 750m and 1500m to a grazing hotspot. The 375 plots were visited in 2014 and resampled in 2015. The samples were clipped at ground level on 50 cm x 50 cm plots, separated into plant functional groups, dried at 65°C for 24h and weighted. More information is available in the corresponding paper.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.932936
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12581
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.932936
Provenance
Creator Ahlborn, Julian ORCID logo; Römermann, Christine; Wesche, Karsten; von Wehrden, Henrik
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2021
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 9212 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (103.600W, 43.511S, 106.837E, 48.155N); Mongolia
Temporal Coverage Begin 2014-06-21T20:14:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-08-19T20:15:00Z