Keywords
Bears Ears National Monument; biological soil crust; camping; cheatgrass; desert; disturbance; foot trails; Indian Creek; invasive species, motorized off-road, recreation, soil carbon
Data Set Description Summary
This data is about how different types of recreation impact different soil and vegetation properties related to soil carbon in Indian Creek, Bears Ears National Monument. The data was collected from May 2023 to October 2023. It contains plant functional group cover, biocrust cover and type, soil stability, and compaction data for each individual site. There are 5-7 of each site type: camping, foot trails, and motorized offroading trails, and undisturbed sites, with a total of 30 sites. It also contains the code used to analyze the raw data and the figures created.
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Currit, Elisabeth M.; Bishop, Tara B.; Hulet, April; Currit, Nathan Allen; Gomez, Teresa; Thompson, Nathan T.; Lambson, Shannon; Wilding Mann, Heidi Jean; Miller, Evan; Jones, Erin; Olson, Alexandra; Anselmi, Katherine A.; Murdock, Meredith; Reid, Ella; Steele, Kirsten; Lawrence, Indy; and Hansen, Neil, "Data for Recreation Effects on Soil Carbon, Biocrust, Soil Stability, and Invasives in Indian Creek, Bears Ears National Monument" (2025). ScholarsArchive Data. 89.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/data/89
Document Type
Data
Publication Date
2025-08-26
Data Collection Start Date
31-5-2023
Data Collection End Date
28-10-2023
Language
English
Funding Information
The Nature Conservancy's Canyonlands Research Center, Canyonlands Research Center Fellowship. Roger and Victoria Sant Endowment, Roger and Victoria Sant Sustainability Research Award. The Utah NASA Space Grant Consortium, Utah NASA Space Grant Consortium Fellowship. The Redd Center for Western Studies, Annaley Naegle Redd Assistantship Award.
College
Life Sciences
Department
Plant and Wildlife Sciences
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Currit.public.bearsears.data.csv (51 kB)
lpibasaldata_all.csv (831 kB)
lpibasaldata_oct.csv (218 kB)
Currit.public.stability.data.csv (122 kB)
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