Data from: "Responses of alpine plant communities to climate warming"

Winkler, Daniel E.; Lubetkin, Kaitlin C.; Carrell, Alyssa A.; Jabis, Meredith D.; Yang, Yan; Kueppers, Lara M.

doi:10.15485/1828795

Title: Data from: "Responses of alpine plant communities to climate warming"

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The Alpine Treeline Warming Experiment (ATWE) was a common garden-climate manipulation experiment set up across an elevation gradient in Niwot Ridge, in the Front Range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA. The project sought to learn more about the effects of climate change on alpine and subalpine ecosystems, namely tree species ranges and alpine plant communities. Plots were experimentally manipulated using infrared heaters set up to warm plots to temperatures comparable to those projected for the year 2100. Other treatments include watering, and a combination of watering and heating. Three sites were set up at different elevations to study three tree species, with the highest-elevation “Alpine” site ( ~3540 m) containing twenty additional plots to study alpine plant communities. Data in this package originate from these unseeded alpine plots. To evaluate soil nitrogen availability given site treatments, resin bags were deployed, removed, and extracted annually to produce ammonium and nitrate/nitrite readings.--------------------------------------------------Data files within this archive are in comma-separated-values (.csv) and Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) formats. .csvs can be read and opened by Microsoft Excel, R, or any other simple text-editing software, and .xlsx files can be opened using Microsoft Excel. Geospatial data associated with this package are in .kml and ESRImore »« less

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; Lubetkin, Kaitlin C.;

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U.S. Geological Survey; U.S. Geological Survey
Great Basin Institute
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
University of California Berkeley
Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Publication Date:: Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 UTC 2021

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)

Subject:: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Alpine; Alpine plant communities; Ammonium; Climate manipulation experiment; Delta 13C; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION; EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS > BIOSPHERIC INDICATORS; Leaf 13C; Nitrate; Nitrite; Plant physiology; Soil nitrogen; Water use efficiency

OSTI Identifier:: 1828795

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.15485/1828795

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                    Winkler, Daniel E., Lubetkin, Kaitlin C., Carrell, Alyssa A., Jabis, Meredith D., Yang, Yan, and Kueppers, Lara M. Data from: "Responses of alpine plant communities to climate warming".  United States: N. p., 2021. 
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                    Winkler, Daniel E., Lubetkin, Kaitlin C., Carrell, Alyssa A., Jabis, Meredith D., Yang, Yan, & Kueppers, Lara M. Data from: "Responses of alpine plant communities to climate warming".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.15485/1828795

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                    Winkler, Daniel E., Lubetkin, Kaitlin C., Carrell, Alyssa A., Jabis, Meredith D., Yang, Yan, and Kueppers, Lara M. 2021.  
"Data from: "Responses of alpine plant communities to climate warming"".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.15485/1828795.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1828795. Pub date:Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 UTC 2021

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@article{osti_1828795,

  title        = {Data from: "Responses of alpine plant communities to climate warming"},

  author       = {Winkler, Daniel E. and Lubetkin, Kaitlin C. and Carrell, Alyssa A. and Jabis, Meredith D. and Yang, Yan and Kueppers, Lara M.},

  abstractNote = {The Alpine Treeline Warming Experiment (ATWE) was a common garden-climate manipulation experiment set up across an elevation gradient in Niwot Ridge, in the Front Range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA. The project sought to learn more about the effects of climate change on alpine and subalpine ecosystems, namely tree species ranges and alpine plant communities. Plots were experimentally manipulated using infrared heaters set up to warm plots to temperatures comparable to those projected for the year 2100. Other treatments include watering, and a combination of watering and heating. Three sites were set up at different elevations to study three tree species, with the highest-elevation “Alpine” site ( ~3540 m) containing twenty additional plots to study alpine plant communities. Data in this package originate from these unseeded alpine plots. To evaluate soil nitrogen availability given site treatments, resin bags were deployed, removed, and extracted annually to produce ammonium and nitrate/nitrite readings.--------------------------------------------------Data files within this archive are in comma-separated-values (.csv) and Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) formats. .csvs can be read and opened by Microsoft Excel, R, or any other simple text-editing software, and .xlsx files can be opened using Microsoft Excel. Geospatial data associated with this package are in .kml and ESRI shapefile (.shp) formats. .kml files can be read using Google Earth or Google Maps, and shapefiles can be read with any software compatible with the file type, such as QGIS or ESRI’s ArcMap suite.Data files in this package - excluding “Winkler_2019_ALPO_inorganic_N_allyears.csv” - are provided in both Microsoft Excel and .csv formats, for added accessibility and flexibility in workflows. File contents are identical.},

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  year         = {Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 UTC 2021},

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