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The 58 km2 (14,349 acre) site is colocated with the 17 km2 (4218 acre) Choctaw National Wildlife Refuge and Lenoir Landing Park. Lenoir Landing Park hosts the flux tower and tower plots and is managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The distributed plots are located 5 km (3 mi.) south of the tower shed on the Choctaw National Wildlife Refuge managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The site is characterized by hardwood bottomland with seasonal flooding and is located along the Tombigbee River. This site is part of NEON\u0027s Ozarks Complex Domain (D08). D08 includes two other terrestrial field sites and three aquatic field sites. LENO is colocated with the Lower Tombigbee River aquatic site (TOMB). 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