Konza Prairie Agroecosystem NEON - United States of America

Basic Information
Site Name
Konza Prairie Agroecosystem NEON
Short name
KONA
Country
United States of America
Site Manager
Site Description
The NEON site KONA is located only 5 km west of the Konza Prairie and is focused on sampling within agricultural systems. Sampling occurs in area of cultivated crop fields owned and managed by Kansas State University's Departments of Agronomy and Animal Science. The KONA site is one of the two relocatable sites encompassed in the NEON Prairie Peninsula Domain, which includes the largest remaining areas of unplowed tallgrass prairie in North America. The Prairie Peninsula domain consists of grasslands, forests, and agricultural cover types. The Domain hosts four other NEON field sites, two aquatic and two terrestrial, all of which are located in Kansas. Remote sensing surveys of this field site collect lidar, spectrometer and high-resolution RGB camera data. The flux/meteorological tower at this site is 26’ with 4 measurement levels. The tower top extends above the vegetation canopy to allow sensors mounted at the top and along the tower to capture the full profile of atmospheric conditions from the top of the vegetation canopy to the ground. The tower collects physical and chemical properties of atmosphere-related processes, such as humidity, wind, and net ecosystem gas exchange. Precipitation data are collected by a tipping bucket at the top of the tower and a series of throughfalls located in the soil array. This site has five soil plots placed in an array within the airshed of the flux tower. Field ecologists collect the following types of observational data at this site: Terrestrial organisms (birds, ground beetles, mosquitoes, plants, small mammals, soil microbes, ticks), Biogeochemical data, and soil data. Over 100 data products are generated from this field site.
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2021-03-03 11:03:18

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General Characteristics and Status
Site Status
Operational
Year Established
2017
Observed properties
Affiliation and Network Specific Information
Affiliation
GERIThis site is a verified "GERI" member.
NEON (KONA)This site is a verified "NEON" member.
Geographic
Elevation (average)
340.00msl
Elevation (min)
312.00msl
Elevation (max)
359.00msl
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