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Variables can be listed alphabetically by name or by number of T.Sites by clicking on the appropriate arrows found beside each heading. View the variable documentation by clicking on the name. Click on the number to list the T.Sites measuring each variable. Click here to download the entire list as a zip file (440 KB).
109 Variables found measured by T.Sites member of network [World Network of Biosphere Reserves]
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Global change map
Active vegetation fires  x 4    
Aerosols    3  
Air relative humidity  x 16  
Air temperature  x 20  
Albedo  x 7  
Biogeochemical transport from land to ocean  x 1    
Biomass above ground    9    
Biomass below ground    7    
Burned area    5  
Carbon dioxide flux    4    
Cloud cover  x 14  
Cold cloud duration    7  
Dry deposition of nitrate and sulfate    4  
Evapotranspiration    7  
Fertilizer use    6  
Forest cover change    7    
Fossil fuels emissions    5    
Glacier change in length  x 1    
Glacier mass balance  x 1    
Habitat conversion    5    
Habitat fragmentation    5  
Indicator species    6    
Invasive species    9    
Lake and river freeze-up and break-up    5    
Land cover  x 19    
Land use  x 21    
Leaf area index  x 6  
Leaf interception    3  
Livestock density    7    
Methane flux  x 4  
Necromass    6  
Necromass decomposition rate    8  
Net ecosystem productivity    8    
Net primary productivity    7    
Ozone  x 6    
Permafrost active layer  x 2    
Phenology    17    
Plant N and P tissue content    9  
Plant stomatal maximum conductance    1  
Pollinator species    1    
Precipitation  x 14  
Radiation: Fraction photosynthetically active radiation absorbed by plant canopy  x 5  
Radiation: Incoming surface solar radiation  x 10  
Radiation: Outgoing long-wave radiation  x 5  
Radiation: Surface reflected short-wave radiation  x 4  
Rainfall chemistry  x 4    
Sea ice thickness  x 1  
Snow cover area  x 10    
Snow depth  x 12  
Snow water equivalent  x 2    
Soil annual loss from erosion    4    
Soil available phosphorus    4  
Soil bulk density    8  
Soil calcium carbonate    8  
Soil cation exchange capacity    6  
Soil depth    12  
Soil erosion from gullying    2  
Soil exchangeable acidity    8  
Soil exchangeable aluminium    5  
Soil exchangeable potassium    7  
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