Carrizo micronet

At Carrizo Plain National Monument, we sampled the Eklhorn Plain for climate an ecology (35.0766358,-119.697721). Micro-climate was monitored under desert shrub canopies and in the open. Hobo environmental loggers were used with 12-bit Temperature/Relative Humidity Smart Sensors (S-THB-M002) probes, Hobo Prob V2 integrated sensors, and Hobo pendants that also recorded light intensity. The scale sampled was 1m in each instance. Sensors were deployed 15 cm above the soil surface under the shrub canopy of Ephedra californica (sheltered from direct sunlight) or at adjacent, open paired-microsites within 1.5m of a focal shrub. Key ecological variables included microsite, location, vegetation type, and extent of vegetation at each microsite. Temperatures listed are in degrees Celsius, and relative humidity is in percent from 0 to 100. Light intensity is in umol.