Plot-level soil temperature and moisture data for a tropical forest understory warming experiment (TRACE) in Luquillo, Puerto Rico, 2015-2023
- USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry; USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry
- Michigan Technological University
- U.S. Geological Survey
The Tropical Responses to Altered Climate Experiment (TRACE) is a forest understory warming experiment aimed at understanding how increased temperature and disturbance affect carbon cycling and ecosystem processes in tropical forests. This dataset contains plot-level soil temperature and moisture data from six experimental plots at TRACE; three plots are experimentally warmed with infrared heaters to a target understory temperature of 4˚C above ambient, and three plots are un-warmed control plots. Each plot has five Campbell Scientific CS655 soil sensors: three at a depth of 0-10 cm, one at a depth of 20-30 cm, and another at a depth of 40-50 cm. Data in this package were cleaned and formatted to include information about sensor location within the plots. This data package contains one CSV file per year from October 2015 to December 2023, for a total of nine data files, as well as a data dictionary describing the variables.
- Research Organization:
- Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem; Effects of Hurricane Disturbance and Increased Temperature on Carbon Cycling and Storage of a Puerto Rican Forest: A Mechanistic Investigation of Above- and Belowground Processes
- Sponsoring Organization:
- U.S. DOE > Office of Science > Biological and Environmental Research (BER); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0018942; 89243018SSC000014; 89243018SSC000017; SC0011806; SC0012000
- OSTI ID:
- 2478050
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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