NPP Grassland: Konza Prairie, U.S.A., 1984-1990

Data Citation

Cite this data set as follows:

Knapp, A. K., and D. Ojima. 1996. NPP Grassland: Konza Prairie, U.S.A., 1984-1990. 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 a humid temperate tall-grass prairie was determined at the Konza Prairie Natural Research Area from 1975 to the present. Monthly dynamics of above-ground plant biomass have been monitored since 1984, and estimates of above-ground plant production have been made since 1975. The Konza Prairie was the site of the First ISLSCP (International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project) Field Experiment (FIFE), an intensive period of remote-sensing and ground-based physiological and meteorological studies coordinated by NASA from 1987 to 1989. Landsat MSS/TM and AVHRR browse images for the Konza site are available from the NASA Pathfinder Global Land Cover Test Sites project.

The Konza study site (39.10 N 96.61 W) is situated near the town of Manhattan in north-eastern Kansas, about 170 km west of Kansas City. The tall-grass prairie of East Kansas is typically grazed annually by domestic animals, and would have been grazed by wild buffalo prior to the mid-19th century. Due to topography (undulating rocky hills of moderate slope) much of the surrounding Flint Hills region has not been converted to arable agriculture.

Contact Information

Contact: Dr. A. K. Knapp
Division of Biology
Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas 66506
U.S.A.

Telephone: +1 (913) 532-7094
Fax: +1 (913) 532-6653
E-mail: aknapp@ksuvm.ksu.edu

Alternate Contact: Dr. Dennis Ojima
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado 80523
U.S.A.

Telephone: +1 (970) 491-1976
Fax: +1 (970) 491-1965
E-mail: dennis@nrel.colostate.edu

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