Manual soil moisture measurements from ten artificial forest gaps at the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, North Carolina, 2000-2018

Ten artificial forest gaps were created in March 2002 at Coweeta, following two years of pretreatment data collection. Experimental gaps were created by pulling canopy trees with a winch until they were down. Trees, saplings, and seedlings were censused and tracked as part of a demography study. Soil moisture data was collected during the growing season as an explanatory variable for tree survivorship and mortality.