ESS-DIVE reporting format for field measurements of soil respiration
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL); Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Virginia Commonwealth University
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
This is a new data and metadata reporting format for soil respiration data, based on engagement with a wide range of researchers in the earth and ecological sciences as well as expert advisory panels. Reporting formats are intended to be ‘bottom-up’, community-developed documents and templates that can enable consistent, findable, accessible, interoperable, and reproducible (FAIR) data; our goal was a reporting format that would be relevant and useful for synthesis activities, optimizing data discoverability and usability while not placing an undue burden on data contributors. The format is split into two levels of information—metadata about chambers (used to measure soil respiration in the field), and the measured data themselves. The file data_reportingformat_template.xlsx contains information on how the data table should be structured, including field names, field descriptions, and units; the chammetadata_reportingformat_template.xlsx file contains similar information for the chamber-level metadata. Fundamentally, this format aims to enable FAIR data through an easy-to-use guide for data providers interested in formatting their data in a common way, and provide ‘future-proofing’ capabilities to support reanalyses of soil respiration data, a globally-important component of the carbon cycle.
- Research Organization:
- Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem; Environmental Systems Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem
- Sponsoring Organization:
- U.S. DOE > Office of Science > Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- OSTI ID:
- 1798520
- Report Number(s):
- https://ess-dive.gitbook.io/continuous-soil-respiration-reporting-format/
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English