Site Implementation Plan: La Cienega, Cointzio, Mexico

Table of Contents

1. Site Information
2. Summary
3. Location description
4. Stakeholder information
5. Land use
6. Conservation measures and experimental setup
7. Monitoring
   1. Meteorology
   2. Occasional
   3. Repeated monitoring
   4. Repeated measurements
   5. Yield assessment
8. Analysis

Repeated monitoring

(according to rain events: +/- 7 to 8 time a year) monitoring supported by digital photography and direct measures:

• Regular soil surface assessment (crusting/surface structure, roughness) year 1 and 2 with quadrat-points and then, with chain.
• Crop characteristics: height (m), yield.
• Mulch and vegetation cover fraction, digital analysis using 1m2 frames at sample locations.
• CO₂ respiration (one time a month from 2005 to 2007).