The influence of solar panels on local hydrology and plant ecology

See related database: Hassanpour Adeh, Elnaz; Higgins, Chad W.; Selker, John S. (2017): Remarkable solar panels Influence on soil moisture, micrometeorology and water-use efficiency - database. OSU Libraries. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.7267/N9W37T8DThis poster was presented at the American Geophysical Union fall meeting in San Francisco, 14-18 December 2015.Photo voltaic solar energy is a clean source of energy with much lower carbon footprint than other sources. However, the vast land requirements of solar energy arrays may make installation impractical when available land is better suited for other purposes. The goal of this research was to investigate changes to the environmental physics, grass production, and grass species diversification under solar panels in an active pasture. To this end, different land characteristics were studied observationally including the length of the growing season, the greenness, the production per acre), and the environmental physical processes