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Root responses to warming and hurricane disturbances in a wet tropical forest of Puerto Rico: R code and data

Dataset ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.15486/ngt/1582598· OSTI ID:1582598
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  1. Univ de Puerto Rico; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
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
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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