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Ag Data Commons migration begins October 18, 2023

The Ag Data Commons is migrating to a new platform – an institutional portal on Figshare. Starting October 18 the current system will be available for search and download only. Submissions will resume after the launch of our portal on Figshare in November. Stay tuned for details!

Rangeland Analysis Platform: Monitor rangelands across the USA

    The Rangeland Analysis Platform ( rangelands.app) is a free online application that provides simple and fast access to geospatial vegetation data for U.S. rangelands. The tool was developed to provide landowners, resource managers, conservationists, and scientists access to data that can inform land management planning, decision making, and the evaluation of outcomes. The Rangeland Analysis Platform (RAP) uses innovative cloud computing technology to provide maps and analysis opportunities straight to your desktop, delivered securely and instantaneously.

    Data from: Compound hydroclimatic extremes in a semi-arid grassland: Drought, deluge and the carbon cycle

      These data were generated to evaluate the effects of compound hydroclimatic extremes – a deluge during drought – on production and carbon cycling in a semi-arid (shortgrass steppe) grassland in Colorado (USA). The study experimentally imposed an extreme drought and then interrupted this drought with either a single extreme deluge event or the equivalent amount of precipitation provided in several smaller events

      Assessing the rate and reversibility of large herbivore effects on community composition in a semi-arid grassland ecosystem with GZTX data on the Central Plains Experimental Range, Nunn, Colorado, USA 1992-2017

        Data supporting empirical evaluation of the effects of grazing on semi-arid grassland hypothesized by State-and-Transition models using a 25-year grazing exclosure reversal experiment in the Great Plains, US. We document rapid, reversible and symmetric effects of the imposition and removal of grazing between 1992-2017 due to differences in the rate of increase in cover of C3 midgrasses, litter and bare ground.