Dead Lake NEON - United States of America

Basic Information
Site Name
Dead Lake NEON
Short name
DELA
Country
United States of America
Web Address
https://www.neonscience.org/field-sites/field-sites-map/DELA
Site Manager
David Mitchell
Site Description
The Dead Lake (DELA) is a relocatable Terrestrial site within NEON's Ozarks Complex Domain 7. DELA is just northeast of Demopolis, AL near the Black Warrior River. The site is in Major Land Resource Area (MLRA) 133A Southern Coastal Plains, near the boundary of MLRA 135A Alabama and Mississippi Blackland Prairie. Surrounded by woody wetlands and evergreen forest, DELA sits on the flood plain steps and stream terraces of an inside meander of the Black Warrior River in Greene Co., AL. Remote sensing surveys of this field site collect lidar, spectrometer and high-resolution RGB camera data. The flux/meteorological tower at this site is 138' with 6 measurement levels. The tower top extends above the vegetation canopy to allow sensors ...
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Last modified
2021-03-03 11:03:06

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General Characteristics and Status
Site Status
Operational
Year Established
2015
Observed properties
atmospheric parameterecosystem parameterbiological parameterchemical parametergenetic parameterlandscape parametersoil parameterairtemperatureheatfluxozoneconcentrationprecipitationintensitylatentheatleafareaindexplantdiversityspeciesabundanceabovegroundbiomasssoilcarbondioxydefluxDNAsequencelandcoversoilmoisturecontent
Affiliation and Network Specific Information
Affiliation
GERI✔This site is a verified "GERI" member.
NEON✔ (DELA)This site is a verified "NEON" member.
Photos
DELA tower
DELA tower
Geographic
1 km
5000 ft
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Centroid/Representative Coordinates

Latitude: 32.54172 Longitude: -87.80389

Size
ca. 410.00ha
Elevation (average)
22.00msl
Elevation (min)
21.00msl
Elevation (max)
41.00msl
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Site information [.json]

Centroid/representative coordinates [.shp] [.kml]
Bounding Box [.shp] [.kml]
Boundaries [.shp] [.kml]
GEO-BON Biome
Fresh water rivers
Biome
Fresh Water Rivers
Ecosystem Type
Forest
Evergreen Forest
Air Temperature: Average Annual
17.00°C
Precipitation Annual
1290.00mm
Geology
Alluvial, coastal, and terrace deposits. Holocene.
Vegetation
Overstory is broad mix of cypress (Taxodium spp.), black gum (Nyssa sylvatica), shagbark hickory (Carya ovata), oaks, and green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica). Ground cover includes bamboo, grass, smilax and sometimes large and in places, complete poison ivy (Toxicodendrom radicans) cover.
Soils
Fine, mixed, semiactive, thermic. Aquic Paleudults.
Site Type
Non-stationary land-based site
Design of Experimentation
mainly experimentation
Scale of Experimentation
beyond catchment scale
Design of Observation
mainly observation
Scale of Observation
beyond catchment
Permanent Power Supply
No
Accessible All Year
Yes
Permanent Operation
No