A micro-environmental dataset exploring shrub-open climate contrasts in Cuyama Valley, California, USA,

A total of 62 Hobo micro-station data logger weather stations were deployed in Cuyama Valley, California drylands on public lands. Each station had 4 channels with two EC5 soil moisture smart sensors and two 12-Bit temperature smart sensors. The sensor arrays were deployed for two years or a total of 24 months. Key ecological variables included microsite, location, vegetation type, and extent of vegetation at each microsite. Temperature sensors were deployed 15 cm above the soil surface under the shrub canopy of Ephedra californica (sheltered from direct sunlight) or at adjacent, open paired-microsites within 1.5m of a focal shrub.Temperatures listed are in degrees Celsius. Soil moisture sensors were inserted into the soil near each temperature probe. The x,y,z columns are the width, perpendicular measure, and height in m respectively of each shrub at those microsites.