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The 6.2 km2 (1530 acre) site is encompassed within the University of Kansas Field Station, a biological field station owned and managed by KU. The location lies along an eastern deciduous forest and tallgrass prairie transition zone. The surrounding region consists of grasslands, forests, and agricultural land cover types and includes the largest remaining areas of unplowed tallgrass prairie in North America. Our UKFS site is part of the NEON Prairie Peninsula Domain (D06), which stretches from Kansas through Nebraska and Iowa to southern Minnesota, and moves east to encompass Illinois and most of Indiana. The Domain hosts four other NEON field sites: two aquatic and two additional terrestrial, all of which are located in Kansas. Land use and land use management are key grand challenge themes for this Domain.","citation":null,"relatedIdentifiers":null,"status":{"label":"Operational","uri":"http:\/\/vocabs.lter-europe.net\/elter_cl\/10772"},"yearEstablished":2014,"yearClosed":null,"relatedSites":null,"siteName":"University of Kansas Field Station NEON","shortName":"UKFS","siteType":"Non-stationary land-based site","protectionLevel":null,"landUse":null,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/deims.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-06\/48792926683_07ddd25990_b.jpg","alt":"Two seasons, one sampling plot at UKFS"}]},"environmentalCharacteristics":{"airTemperature":{"yearlyAverage":12.7,"monthlyAverage":null,"unit":"\u00b0C","referencePeriod":null},"precipitation":{"yearlyAverage":990,"monthlyAverage":null,"unit":"mm","referencePeriod":null},"biogeographicalRegion":null,"biome":"deciduous_forest","ecosystemType":[{"label":"Deciduous Forest","uri":null},{"label":"Forest","uri":null}],"eunisHabitat":null,"landforms":null,"geoBonBiome":["Terrestrial"],"geology":"Geologic characteristics of the University of Kansas Field Station are windblown sand and silt. 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