Identification

Title

Annual soil respiration under experimental drought and warming at Clocaenog forest (1999-2016)

Abstract

The data consists of annual values of soil respiration for plots subjected to climate change manipulations between 1999 and 2016. Data were collected from the climate change field site Climoor that is located in Clocaenog forest, Northeast Wales. The experimental field site consists of three untreated control plots (Plots 3, 6 and 9), three plots where the plant canopy air is artificially warmed during night time hours (Plots 1, 2 and 7) and three plots where rainfall is excluded from the plots at least during the plant growing season (March to September, Plots 4, 5 and 8). Annual soil respiration values were calculated from fortnightly measurements of soil respiration. Soil respiration, milligrammes of Carbon dioxide - C per square metre per hour (mg CO2-C m-2 hr-1) was measured in the same pre-installed opaque soil collars. An infra-red gas analyser was used to measure the Carbon dioxide efflux. Annual soil respiration was calculated as sum of seasonal Carbon dioxide emissions. The Climoor field experiment intends to answer questions regarding the effects of warming and drought on ecosystem processes. Plot level soil respiration measurements are important to investigate soil carbon dynamics and changes in soil carbon cycling and storage under the imposed climatic treatments. More detailed information about the field site, measurements and related datasets can be found in the supporting documentation. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/253aa0a7-1d5a-446c-a5ca-fe2f0f50f6b1

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/253aa0a7-1d5a-446c-a5ca-fe2f0f50f6b1.zip

name: Supporting information

description: Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset

function: information

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/253aa0a7-1d5a-446c-a5ca-fe2f0f50f6b1

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function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/253aa0a7-1d5a-446c-a5ca-fe2f0f50f6b1

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Environmental Monitoring Facilities

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Plot level data

Climate change

Soil carbon

Carbon Dioxide

flux

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-3.479

East bounding longitude

-3.391

North bounding latitude

53.077

South bounding latitude

53.033

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1999-01-01

End position

2016-06-15

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2017-07-04

date type

creation

effective date

2016-06-15

Frequency of update

asNeeded

Quality and validity

Lineage

Soil respiration was measured in pre-installed soil collars in three location in each plot using an infra-red gas analyser. The soil respiration measurement took 120 seconds and was recorded in grammes of Carbon dioxide - C per square metre per hour (mg CO2-C m-2 hr-1). Values were then converted to milligrams of millgrammes of CO2-C m-2 hr-1 and the three plot measurements were averaged to a plot average. Annual soil respiration was calculated from fortnightly soil respiration measurements. Daily average soil respiration rates were calculated. Then, average seasonal rates were calculated, and finally the seasonal cumulative Carbon dioxide emissions were obtained by multiplying the seasonal rates by the number of days in each season. Annual soil respiration was calculated as the sum of all seasonal emissions. All results were entered into Excel spreadsheets. Results from all the analyses were combined into one Excel spreadsheet. Data were then exported from this combined Excel spreadsheet as .csv files for ingestion into the Environmental Information Data Centre.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

explanation

Data format

name of format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Dominguez, M., Reinsch, S., Sowerby, A., Smith, A.R., Harvey, R.J., Winterbourn, J.B., Brooks, M.R., Robinson, D.A., Emmett, B.A. (2017). Annual soil respiration under experimental drought and warming at Clocaenog forest (1999-2016). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/253aa0a7-1d5a-446c-a5ca-fe2f0f50f6b1

owner

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environmental Information Data Centre

full postal address

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg

Lancaster

LA1 4AP

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2022-05-20T10:41:46

Metadata language

eng