NPP Grassland: Badkhyz, Turkmenistan, 1948-1982


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Photograph: Litter decomposition experiment at Badkhyz (click on the photo to view a series of images from this site).

Data Citation

Cite this data set as follows:

Gilmanov, T. G. 1998. NPP Grassland: Badkhyz, Turkmenistan, 1948-1982. Data set. Available on-line [http://www.daac.ornl.gov] from Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A.

Description

Productivity of an ephemeral desert grassland was determined at the Badkhyz Nature Reserve Station in southern Turkmenistan between 1948 and 1982. These data are part of a series of a series of grassland data sets recently assembled and checked by Dr. Tagir Gilmanov, which cover a wide range of climate and "continentality" (increasing maximum summer temperatures, decreasing precipitation) from the North-West to the South-East of the Commonwealth of Independent States (former U.S.S.R.).

The Badkhyz study site (35.68 N 62.0 E) is situated near Kushka in southern Turkmenistan. It is typical of the emphemeroidal ecosystems found on the seroziem soils in the foothills of the mountains of Middle Asia. The climate of the region is characterized by the marked seasonality of precipitation, which occurs only in winter/early spring, giving an early and short growing season, followed by prolonged drought from May to October.

Peak live biomass measurements are available from 1948 to 1972, and 1977 to 1982, with a high inter-annual variation in climate regime. More detailed monthly data are available, restricted to growing season only, from 1948 to 1963.

Contact Information

Contact: Dr. T. G. Gilmanov
Center for Ecology and Productivity of Forests
Russian Academy of Sciences
69 Novocheryomushkinskaya
Moscow 117418
RUSSIA

c/o Department of Biology and Microbiology
South Dakota State University
Brookings, SD 57007
U.S.A.

Telephone (U.S.A.): +1 (605) 688-4925/6141
Fax (Russia): +7 (095) 200-2216/2217 (Attn. Gilmanov 002840)
Fax (U.S.A.): +1 (605) 688-6677
E-mail: Tagir_Gilmanov@sdstate.edu

Click on the following linked phrase to view or references and summaries for the Badkhyz site. More detailed information is available in the associated guide document.