Data from: Living, dead, and absent trees - How do moth outbreaks shape small-scale patterns of soil organic matter stocks and dynamics at the Subarctic mountain birch treeline?

• Main Authors: Meyer, Nele, Xu, Yi, Karjalainen, Katri, Adamczyk, Sylwia, Biasi, Christina, van Delden, Lona, Martin, Angela, Mganga, Kevin, Myller, Kristiina, Sietiö, Outi-Maaria, Suominen, Otso, Karhu, Kristiina
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: soil carbon; soil respiration; insect herbivory; priming effects; soil organic matter; Soil organic carbon stocks; Deadwood; Northern Finland; Subarctic; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.p5hqbzkqg

Mountain birch forests ( B. pubescens Ehrh. ssp. czerepanovii ) at the subarctic treeline not only benefit from global warming, but are also increasingly affected by caterpillar outbreaks from foliage-feeding geometrid moths. Both of these factors have unknown consequences on soil organic carbon (SO...