Data from: "Soil moisture mediates alpine life form and community productivity responses to warming"

Winkler, Daniel E.; Chapin, Kenneth J.; Kueppers, Lara M.

doi:10.15485/1706730

Title: Data from: "Soil moisture mediates alpine life form and community productivity responses to warming"

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This dataset contains values that were used to support conclusions drawn in the publication “Soil moisture mediates alpine life form and community productivity responses to warming”, originally published in 2016 by Winkler et al. All data were collected in the alpine site of the Alpine Treeline Warming Experiment (ATWE), located on Niwot Ridge, in the Front Range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA. The file types in this archive include comma-separated-values (.csv) files, and two types of geospatial files: .kml and shapefiles (.shp). The csv files can be opened by R, Microsoft Excel, or any simple text editor software. The geospatial files can be opened by Google Earth/Google Maps, and the ESRI shapefiles can be opened by geographic information systems softwares that can read shapefiles, including ESRI’s ArcGIS Desktop suite, and QGIS.Climate warming is expected to alter primary production and community composition in alpine systems around the globe. Whether production will increase in response to warming in the absence of additional precipitation remains underexplored. We experimentally warmed an alpine plant community on Niwot Ridge, Colorado to test whether warming increases or decreases productivity of multiple plant life form groups and the entire plant community. We also provided supplemental water tomore »« less

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U.S. Geological Survey; U.S. Geological Survey
University of California Los Angeles
University of California Berkeley

Publication Date:: Tue Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 2019

DOE Contract Number:: FG02-07ER64457

Research Org.:: Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem; Subalpine and Alpine Species Range Shifts with Climate Change: Temperature and Soil Moisture Manipulations to Test Species and Population Responses (Alpine Treeline Warming Experiment)

Sponsoring Org.:: U.S. DOE > Office of Science > Biological and Environmental Research (BER); Environmental Systems Graduate Group and Graduate Division at the University of California (UC), Merced.

Subject:: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Aboveground vascular biomass; Adequate soil moisture days; Air temperature; Alpine tundra; Biomass weight; Climate change; Climate experiment; Degree days; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION; EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS > CLIMATE FEEDBACKS; Growing degree days; Meteorological data; Precipitation; Primary productivity; Season length; Snowmelt date; Soil moisture; Soil temperature; Species; Vegetation percent cover; Volumetric water content; Warming

OSTI Identifier:: 1706730

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.15485/1706730

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                    Winkler, Daniel E., Chapin, Kenneth J., and Kueppers, Lara M. Data from: "Soil moisture mediates alpine life form and community productivity responses to warming".  United States: N. p., 2019. 
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                    Winkler, Daniel E., Chapin, Kenneth J., & Kueppers, Lara M. Data from: "Soil moisture mediates alpine life form and community productivity responses to warming".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.15485/1706730

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                    Winkler, Daniel E., Chapin, Kenneth J., and Kueppers, Lara M. 2019.  
"Data from: "Soil moisture mediates alpine life form and community productivity responses to warming"".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.15485/1706730.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1706730. Pub date:Tue Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 2019

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  title        = {Data from: "Soil moisture mediates alpine life form and community productivity responses to warming"},

  author       = {Winkler, Daniel E. and Chapin, Kenneth J. and Kueppers, Lara M.},

  abstractNote = {This dataset contains values that were used to support conclusions drawn in the publication “Soil moisture mediates alpine life form and community productivity responses to warming”, originally published in 2016 by Winkler et al. All data were collected in the alpine site of the Alpine Treeline Warming Experiment (ATWE), located on Niwot Ridge, in the Front Range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA. The file types in this archive include comma-separated-values (.csv) files, and two types of geospatial files: .kml and shapefiles (.shp). The csv files can be opened by R, Microsoft Excel, or any simple text editor software. The geospatial files can be opened by Google Earth/Google Maps, and the ESRI shapefiles can be opened by geographic information systems softwares that can read shapefiles, including ESRI’s ArcGIS Desktop suite, and QGIS.Climate warming is expected to alter primary production and community composition in alpine systems around the globe. Whether production will increase in response to warming in the absence of additional precipitation remains underexplored. We experimentally warmed an alpine plant community on Niwot Ridge, Colorado to test whether warming increases or decreases productivity of multiple plant life form groups and the entire plant community. We also provided supplemental water to a subset of plots to alleviate potential drying effects of warming. We predicted alpine community above-ground productivity would increase in response to warming only when combined with supplemental water to limit soil drying. We also predicted plant life form groups would vary in their responses and would like buffer changes in community productivity.},

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