Groundwater Well Data from the Middle Rio Grande Valley Riparian Zone, New Mexico (ongoing since 1999)

Authors

Jim Thibault
Clifford Dahm

Date

2015

Abstract

This study originated with the objective of parameterizing riparian evapotranspiration (ET) in the water budget of the middle Rio Grande of New Mexico. We hypothesized that flooding and invasions of non-native species would impact the ecosystem's use of water. Our objectives were to measure and compare the ET of native (Rio Grande cottonwood, Populus deltoides ssp. wizleni) and non-native (saltcedar, Tamarix chinensis, Russian olive, Eleagnus angustifolia) bosque (woodland) communities and to evaluate how water use is affected by climatic variability resulting in high river flows and flooding as well as drought conditions and deep water tables. This data set contains water table levels monitored at nine sites along the Rio Grande riparian corridor between Albuquerque and Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. Data date to 1999. Two sites remain active and are well into their second decade of monitoring. One is in a xero-riparian, non-flooding, saltcedar woodland within the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge. The other is in a dense, monotypic saltcedar thicket at the Bosque del Apache NWR that is subject to flood pulses associated with high river flows.

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/1928/29650

Other Identifier

SEV295

Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB) Identifier

knb-lter-sev.295.311393

Document Type

Dataset

Comments

This dataset was originally published on the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network Data Portal, https://portal.lternet.edu, and potentially via other repositories or portals as described. The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) of the source data package is doi:10.6073/pasta/f67460c7393c0f69a0a919117b56679c, and may be accessed at http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/f67460c7393c0f69a0a919117b56679c. Metadata and files included in this record mirror as closely as possible the source data and documentation, with the provenance metadata and quality report generated by the LTER portal reproduced here as '*-provenance.xml' and *-report.html' files, respectively.

Rights

Data Policies: This dataset is released to the public and may be freely downloaded. Please keep the designated Contact person informed of any plans to use the dataset. Consultation or collaboration with the original investigators is strongly encouraged. Publications and data products that make use of the dataset must include proper acknowledgement of the Sevilleta LTER. Datasets must be cited as in the example provided. A copy of any publications using these data must be supplied to the Sevilleta LTER Information Manager. By downloading any data you implicitly acknowledge the LTER Data Policy (http://www.lternet.edu/data/netpolicy.html).

Source

http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/f67460c7393c0f69a0a919117b56679c

Temporal coverage

1999-04-16 - 2014-12-31

Spatial coverage

Location: The northernmost group of wells for SEV295 is at this location.

DOI

doi:10.6073/pasta/f67460c7393c0f69a0a919117b56679c

Permanent URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/f67460c7393c0f69a0a919117b56679c

Recommended Citation

Thibault, Jim; Dahm, Clifford (2015): Groundwater Well Data from the Middle Rio Grande Valley Riparian Zone, New Mexico (ongoing since 1999). Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/f67460c7393c0f69a0a919117b56679c