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A Database of Herbaceous Vegetation Responses to Elevated Atmospheric CO2 (NDP-073)

Dataset ·
 [1];  [2]
  1. Ohio State University, Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology; OSTI
  2. Ohio State University, Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology

To perform a statistically rigorous meta-analysis of research results on the response by herbaceous vegetation to increased atmospheric CO2 levels, a multiparameter database of responses was compiled from the published literature. Seventy-eight independent CO2-enrichment studies, covering 53 species and 26 response parameters, reported mean response, sample size, and variance of the response (either as standard deviation or standard error). An additional 43 studies, covering 25 species and 6 response parameters, did not report variances. This numeric data package accompanies the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center's (CDIAC's) NDP- 072, which provides similar information for woody vegetation. This numeric data package contains a 30-field data set of CO2- exposure experiment responses by herbaceous plants (as both a flat ASCII file and a spreadsheet file), files listing the references to the CO2-exposure experiments and specific comments relevant to the data in the data sets, and this documentation file (which includes SAS and Fortran codes to read the ASCII data file; SAS is a registered trademark of the SAS Institute, Inc., Cary, North Carolina 27511).For access to the data files, click this link to the CDIAC data transition website: http://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/epubs/ndp/ndp073/ndp073.html

Research Organization:
Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem
Sponsoring Organization:
U.S. DOE > Office of Science (SC) > Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)
Contributing Organization:
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC)
OSTI ID:
1389540
Report Number(s):
doi:10.3334/CDIAC/VRC.NDP073; cdiac:doi 10.3334/CDIAC/vrc.ndp073
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English