The fortedata R package: open-science datasets from a manipulative experiment testing forest resilience
Abstract
The fortedata R package is an open data notebook from the Forest Resilience Threshold Experiment (FoRTE) – a modeling and manipulative field experiment that tests the effects of disturbance severity and disturbance type on carbon cycling dynamics in a temperate forest. Package data consist of measurements of carbon pools and fluxes and ancillary measurements to help analyze and interpret carbon cycling over time. Currently the package includes data and metadata from the first three FoRTE field seasons, serves as a central, updatable resource for the FoRTE project team, and is intended as a resource for external users over the course of the experiment and in perpetuity. Further, it supports all associated FoRTE publications, analyses, and modeling efforts. This increases efficiency, consistency, compatibility, and productivity while minimizing duplicated effort and error propagation that can arise as a function of a large, distributed and collaborative effort. More broadly, fortedata represents an innovative, collaborative way of approaching science that unites and expedites the delivery of complementary datasets to the broader scientific community, increasing transparency and reproducibility of taxpayer-funded science. The fortedata package is available via GitHub: https://github.com/FoRTExperiment/fortedata (last access: 19 February 2021), and detailed documentation on the access, used, and applications of fortedatamore »
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- Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Climate Change Science Inst.
- Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), College Park, MD (United States). Joint Global Change Research Inst.
- Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (United States)
- Western Colorado Univ., Gunnison, CO (United States)
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States)
- Univ. of Michigan Biological Station, Pellston, MI (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1774146
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1782062
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-153069
Journal ID: ISSN 1866-3516
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830; DEB-1655095; 1702379; 1659338; AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Earth System Science Data (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Earth System Science Data (Online); Journal Volume: 13; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1866-3516
- Publisher:
- Copernicus Publications
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
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Atkins, Jeff W., Agee, Elizabeth, Barry, Alexandra, Dahlin, Kyla M., Dorheim, Kalyn, Grigri, Maxim S., Haber, Lisa T., Hickey, Laura J., Kamoske, Aaron G., Mathes, Kayla, McGuigan, Catherine, Paris, Evan, Pennington, Stephanie C., Rodriguez, Carly, Shafer, Autym, Shiklomanov, Alexey, Tallant, Jason, Gough, Christopher M., and Bond-Lamberty, Ben. The fortedata R package: open-science datasets from a manipulative experiment testing forest resilience. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.5194/essd-13-943-2021.
Atkins, Jeff W., Agee, Elizabeth, Barry, Alexandra, Dahlin, Kyla M., Dorheim, Kalyn, Grigri, Maxim S., Haber, Lisa T., Hickey, Laura J., Kamoske, Aaron G., Mathes, Kayla, McGuigan, Catherine, Paris, Evan, Pennington, Stephanie C., Rodriguez, Carly, Shafer, Autym, Shiklomanov, Alexey, Tallant, Jason, Gough, Christopher M., & Bond-Lamberty, Ben. The fortedata R package: open-science datasets from a manipulative experiment testing forest resilience. United States. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-943-2021
Atkins, Jeff W., Agee, Elizabeth, Barry, Alexandra, Dahlin, Kyla M., Dorheim, Kalyn, Grigri, Maxim S., Haber, Lisa T., Hickey, Laura J., Kamoske, Aaron G., Mathes, Kayla, McGuigan, Catherine, Paris, Evan, Pennington, Stephanie C., Rodriguez, Carly, Shafer, Autym, Shiklomanov, Alexey, Tallant, Jason, Gough, Christopher M., and Bond-Lamberty, Ben. Tue .
"The fortedata R package: open-science datasets from a manipulative experiment testing forest resilience". United States. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-943-2021. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1774146.
@article{osti_1774146,
title = {The fortedata R package: open-science datasets from a manipulative experiment testing forest resilience},
author = {Atkins, Jeff W. and Agee, Elizabeth and Barry, Alexandra and Dahlin, Kyla M. and Dorheim, Kalyn and Grigri, Maxim S. and Haber, Lisa T. and Hickey, Laura J. and Kamoske, Aaron G. and Mathes, Kayla and McGuigan, Catherine and Paris, Evan and Pennington, Stephanie C. and Rodriguez, Carly and Shafer, Autym and Shiklomanov, Alexey and Tallant, Jason and Gough, Christopher M. and Bond-Lamberty, Ben},
abstractNote = {The fortedata R package is an open data notebook from the Forest Resilience Threshold Experiment (FoRTE) – a modeling and manipulative field experiment that tests the effects of disturbance severity and disturbance type on carbon cycling dynamics in a temperate forest. Package data consist of measurements of carbon pools and fluxes and ancillary measurements to help analyze and interpret carbon cycling over time. Currently the package includes data and metadata from the first three FoRTE field seasons, serves as a central, updatable resource for the FoRTE project team, and is intended as a resource for external users over the course of the experiment and in perpetuity. Further, it supports all associated FoRTE publications, analyses, and modeling efforts. This increases efficiency, consistency, compatibility, and productivity while minimizing duplicated effort and error propagation that can arise as a function of a large, distributed and collaborative effort. More broadly, fortedata represents an innovative, collaborative way of approaching science that unites and expedites the delivery of complementary datasets to the broader scientific community, increasing transparency and reproducibility of taxpayer-funded science. The fortedata package is available via GitHub: https://github.com/FoRTExperiment/fortedata (last access: 19 February 2021), and detailed documentation on the access, used, and applications of fortedata are available at https://fortexperiment.github.io/fortedata/ (last access: 19 February 2021). The first public release, version 1.0.1 is also archived at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4399601 (Atkins et al., 2020b). All data products are also available outside of the package as .csv files: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13499148.v1 (Atkins et al., 2020c).},
doi = {10.5194/essd-13-943-2021},
journal = {Earth System Science Data (Online)},
number = 3,
volume = 13,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Mar 09 00:00:00 EST 2021},
month = {Tue Mar 09 00:00:00 EST 2021}
}
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