Harvard Forest

Data Archive

HF194

20-Year Synthesis of Soil Respiration Data at Harvard Forest 1991-2008

Related Publications

Data

• hf194-01: hf soil respiration synthesis (preview)
• hf194-02: data and Matlab code to accompany Ecosphere publication

Overview

• Lead: Eric Davidson, Aaron Ellison, Adrien Finzi, Julian Hadley, Jerry Melillo, William Munger, Scott Ollinger, Jim Tang, Ruth Varner
• Investigators: Sarah Butler, Marc-Andre Giasson, Allison Dunn, Julian Hadley, Jacob Knoll, Michael Lavine, Jen Levy, Liza Nicoll, Kathleen Savage, Yue Zhao
• Contact: Information Manager
• Start date: 1991
• End date: 2011
• Status: complete. Dates recalculated using doy and year (v.9)
• Location: Harvard Forest
• Latitude: +42.446860 to +42.554769 degrees
• Longitude: -72.232187 to -72.160547 degrees
• Elevation: 230 to 340 meter
• Datum: WGS84
• Taxa:
• Release date: 2023
• Language: English
• EML file: knb-lter-hfr.194.11
• DOI: digital object identifier
• EDI: data package
• DataONE: data package
• Related links:
• Biomass Inventories at Harvard Forest EMS Tower since 1993
• Soil Respiration Along a Hydrological Gradient at Harvard Forest EMS Tower 2003-2006
• Soil Respiration, Temperature and Moisture at Harvard Forest EMS Tower since 1995
• Chronic Nitrogen Amendment Experiment at Harvard Forest since 1988
• DIRT Litter Manipulation Experiment at Harvard Forest since 1990
• Soil Respiration at Harvard Forest HEM and LPH Towers 1996-2007
• Soil Respiration in Hemlock Removal Experiment at Harvard Forest since 2003
• Trace Gas Fluxes and Soil N Dynamics in Simulated Hurricane Experiment at Harvard Forest 1989-1991
• Barre Woods Soil Warming Experiment at Harvard Forest since 2001
• Prospect Hill Soil Warming Experiment at Harvard Forest since 1991
• Study type: long-term measurement, short-term measurement
• Research topic: forest-atmosphere exchange; soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics
• LTER core area: primary production
• Keywords: carbon cycling, nitrogen cycling, soil respiration
• Abstract:

  All data on soil carbon flux (“soil respiration”) collected using chamber-based methods at Harvard Forest from a range of observational and experimental plots were collated, their units were harmonized, and geographic (locations) and environmental characteristics (soil series, drainage class, soil temperature, soil moisture, vegetation type, etc.) were identified for each observation. This yielded a dataset with 106,192 observations of soil respiration taken between 1991 and 2008. These data provide a unique resource for exploring spatial and temporal patterns in soil respiration in a range of common New England forest types.

  For the Giasson, et al. (2013) publication, we also used 24 site-years of eddy covariance measurements from two Harvard Forest sites (EMS and Hemlock towers) to examine the relationship between soil and ecosystem respiration. Here, we present all derived/synthetic datasets associated with the manuscript.

  M.-A. Giasson, A. M. Ellison, R. D. Bowden, P. M. Crill, E. A. Davidson, J. E. Drake, S. D. Frey, J. L. Hadley, M. Lavine, J. M. Melillo, J. W. Munger, K. J. Nadelhoffer, L. Nicoll, S. V. Ollinger, K. E. Savage, P. A. Steudler, J. Tang, R. K. Varner, S. C. Wofsy, D. R. Foster, and A. C. Finzi 2013. Soil respiration in a northeastern US temperate forest: a 22-year synthesis. Ecosphere 4:art140. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES13.00183.1

• Methods:

  Methods are detailed in the Giasson, et al. (2013) Ecosphere publication. See original publications for methods for individual studies.

  All data are quality checked by individual investigators before submission to the data archive. Data was also quality checked upon compilation for appropriate ranges of values consistent with individual sites. For most sites, geographic coordinates, elevation, vegetation class, soil series and soil drainage class data were obtained using Harvard Forest Properties Maps (HF110) in ArcGIS v.9.3. For sites outside of the range of the soil series and soil drainage class maps, investigators were contacted to provide this information.

• Organization: Harvard Forest. 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA 01366, USA. Phone (978) 724-3302. Fax (978) 724-3595.

• Project: The Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program examines ecological dynamics in the New England region resulting from natural disturbances, environmental change, and human impacts. (ROR).

• Funding: National Science Foundation LTER grants: DEB-8811764, DEB-9411975, DEB-0080592, DEB-0620443, DEB-1237491, DEB-1832210.

• Use: This dataset is released to the public under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 (No Rights Reserved). Please keep the dataset creators informed of any plans to use the dataset. Consultation with the original investigators is strongly encouraged. Publications and data products that make use of the dataset should include proper acknowledgement.

• License: Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal (CC0-1.0)

• Citation: Davidson E, Ellison A, Finzi A, Hadley J, Melillo J, Munger W, Ollinger S, Tang J, Varner R. 2023. 20-Year Synthesis of Soil Respiration Data at Harvard Forest 1991-2008. Harvard Forest Data Archive: HF194 (v.11). Environmental Data Initiative: https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/472b67286f2ab2040705e4322d1ff800.

Detailed Metadata

hf194-01: hf soil respiration synthesis

1. date: date of measurement
2. year: year of measurement
3. doy: day of year (unit: nominalDay )
4. time: time of measurement
5. pi: last name of primary investigator
6. site: name of site
7. x.spmnad83: x coordinate of site in state plane meters (unit: meter / missing value: NA)
8. y.spmnad83: y coordinate of site in state plane meters (unit: meter / missing value: NA)
9. elevation: elevation of site (unit: meter / missing value: NA)
10. block: treatment block
    • 1: Simes valley block, including canopy manipulation plots 1-3 and 8
    • 2: Simes ridge block, including canopy manipulation plots 4-7
    • NA: not applicable
11. plot: plot number
12. distance: distance from tower (LPH or Hemlock) (unit: meter / missing value: NA)
13. transect: compass direction from Hemlock or LPH tower from geographic north (unit: degree / missing value: NA)
14. site.desc: description of site
15. soil.series: soils series name
16. soil.drainage.class: soil drainage class
    • ED: excessively drained
    • WD: well drained
    • MWD: moderately well drained
    • SPD: somewhat poorly drained
    • PD: poorly drained
    • VPD: very poorly drained
17. obs.exp: whether the measurement was observational or experimental
    • obs: observational
    • exp: experimental
18. treat.level: level or type of treatment
19. replicate: replicate number
20. auto.manual: whether the chamber is automatic or manual
    • auto: automatic
    • manual: manual
21. collar: collar number
22. tsoil.1: soil temperature 1 (unit: celsius / missing value: NA)
23. tsoil.1.depth: depth at which tsoil1 was measured (unit: centimeter / missing value: NA)
24. tsoil.2: soil temperature 2 (unit: celsius / missing value: NA)
25. tsoil.2.depth: depth at which tsoil2 was measured (unit: centimeter / missing value: NA)
26. co2.flux: flux of carbon dioxide (soil respiration) (unit: micromolePerMeterSquaredPerSecond / missing value: NA)
27. range.min: minimum CO2 concentration measured (ppm) (unit: dimensionless / missing value: NA)
28. range.mean: mean CO2 concentration measured (ppm) (unit: dimensionless / missing value: NA)
29. range.max: maximum CO2 concentration measured (ppm) (unit: dimensionless / missing value: NA)
30. x.cutoff: time on the curve after which the mean of the 1st derivative was calculated (unit: second / missing value: NA)
31. mean.slope: mean of the 1st derivative (ppm/s) (unit: dimensionless / missing value: NA)
32. stdev.slope: standard deviation of the 1st derivative (ppm/s) (unit: dimensionless / missing value: NA)
33. n.pts: number of points used to calculate the mean of the 1st derivative (unit: number / missing value: NA)
34. flag.stdev: flag for when the relative standard deviation is less than 1
35. collar.height: collar height (unit: meter / missing value: NA)
36. subplot: ant manipulation sub-plot group. Levels are A and B (two groups per canopy manipulation plot)
    • a: subplot A
    • b: subplot B
    • NA: not applicable
37. subplot.t: sub-plot-level treatment
    • c: control
    • d: disturbance control
    • x: exclosure
    • NA: not applicable
38. notes: notes

hf194-02: data and Matlab code to accompany Ecosphere publication

• Compression: zip
• Format: csv, Matlab script, Microsoft Word, tiff
• Type: document, image, script