Root responses to warming and hurricane disturbances in a wet tropical forest of Puerto Rico: R code and data
- Univ de Puerto Rico
The purpose of this data was to generate a scientific article that describes the responses of tropical roots to a warming experiment and to the effect of two consecutive hurricanes in Puerto Rico (Yaffar et al. in review). This data is from 10 months of minirhizotron images taken every 2 weeks at the experimental warming Tropical Responses to Altered Climate Experiment (TRACE) plots in Puerto Rico before and after Hurricanes Irma and Maria. This project has 3 warmed plots (plot 2,4,6) and 3 control plots (plot 1,3,5) with 2 minirhizotron tubes at each plot. As part of the data, there is also root data taken from cores and in-growth cores. Additionally, there is soil nutrient concentration data, soil microclimate, total leaf area, and canopy openness taken by Reed et al. 2020, and the TRACE census. Data files are in CSV format and the R code included in this package can be used with R 3.4.4 (R Core Team and contributors worldwide).
- Research Organization:
- Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments Tropics; Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996
- Sponsoring Organization:
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research
- OSTI ID:
- 1582598
- Report Number(s):
- NGT0170
- Resource Relation:
- Related Information: Yaffar, D. (2020). Root production Minirhizotron analysis from the TRACE_PR plot in Sabana, Puerto Rico. NGEE Tropics Data Collection. (dataset). https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.15486/ngt/1582598 Reed, S. C., Reibold, R., Cavaleri, M. A., Alonso-Rodríguez, A. M., Berberich, M. E., & Wood, T. E. (2020). Soil biogeochemical responses of a tropical forest to warming and hurricane disturbance. In Advances in Ecological Research (pp. 226–248). https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2020.01.007 Kimball, B. A., Alonso‐Rodríguez, A. M., Cavaleri, M. A., Reed, S. C., González, G., & Wood, T. E. (2018). Infrared heater system for warming tropical forest understory plants and soils. Ecology and evolution, 8(4), 1932-1944. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3780
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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