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

• Main Authors: Winkler, Daniel E., Chapin, Kenneth J., Kueppers, Lara M.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: 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) 2020
• Subjects: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Alpine tundra; Climate change; Climate experiment; Degree days; Primary productivity; Season length; Soil moisture; Warming; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION; EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS > CLIMATE FEEDBACKS; Species; Vegetation percent cover; Aboveground vascular biomass; Biomass weight; Adequate soil moisture days; Growing degree days; Snowmelt date; Meteorological data; Air temperature; Precipitation; Soil temperature; Volumetric water content; Tundra
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15485/1706730; https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1706730/

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 ...