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Carbon and Nitrogen Across Two ULTRA-Ex Urban to Rural Gradients in Massachusetts 2010
As part of the Boston University-led, Urban Long-Term Research Area - Exploratory Award (ULTRA-Ex), we established 135 circular, 15 m radius biometric plots extending across two Boston urban-to-rural gradients (Boston MA to Petersham MA and Boston MA to Worcester MA). The plots were stratified based on neighborhood (1 km2 surrounding area) characteristics for population density, impervious surface area fraction, and land cover. Within each plot we measured aboveground live and dead biomass, species characteristics, ground cover characteristics, and soil properties.
Soil Respiration Along a Hydrological Gradient at Harvard Forest EMS Tower 2003-2006
Soil respiration is an important component of the terrestrial carbon budget. Spatial variation of organic matter and plant cover induce temperature and moisture gradations that obscure direct response of soil respiration to radiative forcing. Separation of spatial patterns from microclimate and substrate availability is vital to predict the response to global change. We are measuring temporal and spatial patterns of soil CO2 flux across a hydrological gradient from wetland to upland soils. A system of 8 automated opaque chambers were installed in 2003 along a hydrological gradient on the northeast margin of the "Beaver Swamp" north of the EMS tower (+42.537755,-72.171478). Two additional clear chambers were installed in the wetland in 2006. Each automated chamber closes for a measurement every four hours. The resulting semi-continuous data has been providing a high-temporal density characterization of soil flux during the growing season since 2003. Soil temperature and moisture were recorded in the litter, organic, and mineral soils during 2004 at three locations along the slope. These structures will provide a database of soil respiration flux, temperature, and soil moisture with both high spatial and temporal resolution, across multiple cover types and ground water levels. The analysis will seek to determine the appropriate spatial scale of soil respiration measurement in eastern hardwood forests.
Wildlife in urban neighborhoods of the greater Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area: patterns that span a social-ecological gradient in 2021
Wildlife communities are structured by numerous ecological filters in cities that influence their populations, and some species even manage to thrive in urban landscapes. CAP researchers were the first to observe “the luxury effect”, the hypothesis that biodiversity is positively related to income of residents. The luxury effect is still being tested worldwide twenty years later and has led to important new research on other socio-demographic factors that shape biodiversity but are vastly understudied, such as race and ethnicity, as well as the interaction of these factors with urban structural inequalities that may be hidden by income. This research aims to unpack the luxury effect by considering other landscape and socio-demographic factors that may influence wildlife communities across neighborhoods of metro Phoenix. Specifically, we are investigating if neighborhood income and ethnicity independently influence mammal occupancy in neighborhoods across the CAP ecosystem. To answer this question, we leveraged a wildlife camera array across CAP within community parks, in which cameras are placed across a gradient of average median household income and percent Latinx of residents. Incorporating socioeconomic data into urban mammal research will allow for the advancement in the understanding of socio-ecological patterns.
Urban Heat and Desert Wildlife: Rodent Body Condition Across a Gradient of Surface Temperatures in the greater Phoenix, Arizona (USA) metropolitan area (2019-2020)
We live-trapped wild rodents from seven field sites spanning three strata of land-surface temperatures in the Phoenix, Arizona (USA) metropolitan area. We captured 116 adult pocket mice (Chaetodipus spp. and Perognathus spp.) and Merriam’s kangaroo rats (Dipodomys merriami) during 2019 and 2020 from mountainous urban parks and open spaces. Animal body condition was quantified as percent body fat (i.e., fat mass divided by body mass). We used a noninvasive quantitative magnetic resonance instrument to measure body condition.
Macrophyte and microbial mat biomass co-variation along a hydrologic gradient and response to a removal experiment in temporary wetlands Everglades, FL, USA, February 2003 – November 2006
This data package encompasses hydrologic variables, soil depth, hydrologically-regulated macrophyte community types, macrophyte biomass and community structure, and microbial mat biomass that was collected in two observational surveys and one in-situ experimental manipulation in six temporary wetland regions located in the Everglades, FL, USA. The goal of this project was to examine the co-variation in macrophyte and microbial mat biomass along the hydrologic gradient present across wetland regions and to determine the type and strength of interactions occurring between the two communities, which was tested using a biomass (macrophyte or microbial mat) removal experiment. The census observational survey took place at 140 sites from 2003-04-09 to 2004-05-26, which were randomly distributed across the hydrologic gradient present across the six temporary wetland regions. The transect observational survey occurred along six transects and each was deliberately established along the present hydrologic gradient within each region; a total of 254 sites were sampled from 2003-02-19 to 2005-03-04. The experiment took place at three temporary wetland sites with contrasting hydroperiods (3 – 6 months), and four transects were established per site with 24 pairs of control and treatment plots per transect. The removal treatment occurred one year before data collection, and data collection occurred from 2004-06-20 to 2006-11-25. The package includes six datasets, one R code file, and two shape files associated with the R code. Data collection for all datasets is complete. FCE1274_Census_Survey includes hydrologically-regulated macrophyte community type classifications, macrophyte biomass, microbial mat ash-free dry mass, mean soil depth, water depth, mean annual hydroperiod, and vegetation-inferred hydroperiod; each site was sampled once during the survey period and a subset of sites were sampled each year. FCE1274_Transect_Survey includes macrophyte community type classifications
Soil Respiration at Forest Edges along an Urban to Rural Gradient in Massachusetts 2018-2019
As urbanization and forest fragmentation increase around the globe, it is critical to understand how rates of respiration and carbon losses from soil carbon pools are affected by these processes. This study characterizes soils in fragmented forests along an urban to rural gradient, evaluating the sensitivity of soil respiration to changes in soil temperature and moisture near the forest edge. While previous studies found elevated rates of soil respiration at temperate forest edges in rural areas compared to the forest interior, we find that soil respiration is suppressed at the forest edge in urban areas. At urban sites, respiration rates are 25% lower at the forest edge relative to the interior, likely due to high temperature and aridity conditions near urban edges. While rural soils continue to respire with increasing temperatures, urban soil respiration rates asymptote as temperatures climb and soils dry. Soil temperature- and moisture-sensitivity modeling show that respiration rates in urban soils are less sensitive to rising temperatures than those in rural soils. Scaling these results to Massachusetts (MA), which encompasses 0.25 Mha of urban forest, we find that failure to account for decreases in soil respiration rates near urban forest edges leads to an overestimate of growing-season soil carbon fluxes of greater than 350,000 MgC. This difference is almost 2.5 times that for rural soils in the analogous comparison (underestimate of less than 143,000 MgC), even though rural forest area is more than four times greater than urban forest area in MA. While a changing climate may stimulate carbon losses from rural forest edge soils, urban forests may experience enhanced soil carbon sequestration near the forest edge. These findings highlight the need to capture the effects of forest fragmentation and land use context when making projections about soil behavior and carbon cycling in a warming and increasingly urbanized world. We provide soil respiration, soil temp
Soil Carbon at Forest Edges along an Urban to Rural Gradient in Massachusetts since 2018
Global proliferation of forest edges through anthropogenic land-use change and forest fragmentation is well documented, and while forest fragmentation has clear consequences for soil carbon (C) cycling, underlying drivers of belowground activity at the forest edge remain poorly understood. Increasing soil C losses via respiration have been observed at rural forest edges, but this process was suppressed at urban forest edges. We offer a comprehensive, coupled investigation of abiotic soil conditions and biotic soil activity from forest edge to interior at eight sites along an urbanization gradient to elucidate how environmental stressors are linked to soil C cycling at the forest edge. Despite significant diverging trends in edge soil C losses between urban and rural sites, we did not find comparable differences in soil % C or microbial enzyme activity, suggesting an unexpected decoupling of soil C fluxes and pools at forest edges. We demonstrate that across site types, soils at forest edges were less acidic than the forest interior (p less than 0.0001), and soil pH was positively correlated with soil calcium, magnesium and sodium content (adj R2 = 0.37), which were also elevated at the edge. Compared to forest interior, forest edge soils exhibited a 17.8% increase in sand content and elevated freeze-thaw frequency with probable downstream effects on root turnover and decomposition. Using these and other novel forest edge data, we demonstrate that significant variation in edge soil respiration (adj R2 = 0.46; p = 0.0002) and C content (adj R2 = 0.86; p less than 0.0001) can be explained using soil parameters often mediated by human activity (e.g., soil pH, trace metal and cation concentrations, soil temperature), and we emphasize the complex influence of multiple, simultaneous global change drivers at forest edges. Forest edge soils reflect legacies of anthropogenic land-use and modern human management, and this must be accounted for to understand soil activity and C
Resources from: Disparate patterns of genetic divergence in three widespread corals across a pan-pacific environmental gradient highlights species-specific adaptation trajectories
<p>The following files are contained in this repository:</p> <p><br> README.Hume_et_al_2022.zenodov4.txt - This document.</p> <p>scripts.Hume_et_al_2022.zenodov4.pdf - Contains the scripts, or locations of the scripts, used to conduct the data analyses detailed in the associated manuscript.</p> <p>acknowledgements_local_authorities.Hume_et_al_2022.zenodov1.pdf - Acknowledgements of local authorities for the collection of samples used in the associated study.</p> <p>TaraPacific_SST_timeseries_mean_productsV2mai2021.Hume_et_al_2022.zenodov1.csv - The historical temperature data set used for the RDA, Mantel tests and gradient Forest analysis.</p> <p>Pocillopora_meandrina_v3_11Islands.raw.Hume_et_al_2022.zenodov2.vcf.genozip - The Pocillopora SNPs referred to as 'raw' in the Methods of the associated manuscript. Compressed using genozip (https://genozip.readthedocs.io/index.html).</p> <p>Pocillopora_meandrina_v3_11Islands.raw.Hume_et_al_2022.zenodov2.vcf.genozip.md5 - md5 of the the Pocillopora raw SNPs.</p> <p>Pocillopora_meandrina_v3_11Islands_maf05_minQ30_biallelic_nomiss.linked.Hume_et_al_2022.zenodov2.vcf.gz - The Pocillopora SNPs referred to as 'linked' in the Methods of the associated manuscript.</p> <p>Pocillopora_meandrina_v3_11Islands_maf05_minQ30_biallelic_nomiss.linked.Hume_et_al_2022.zenodov2.vcf.gz.md5 - md5 of the the Pocillopora linked SNPs.</p> <p>Pocillopora_meandrina_v3_11Islands_maf05_minQ30_biallelic_nomiss_LD02.unlinked.Hume_et_al_2022.zenodov2.vcf.gz - The Pocillopora SNPs referred to as 'unlinked' in the Methods of the associated manuscript.</p> <p>Pocillopora_meandrina_v3_11Islands_maf05_minQ30_biallelic_nomiss_LD02.unlinked.Hume_et_al_2022.zenodov2.vcf.gz.md5 - md5 of the the Pocillopora unlinked SNPs.</p> <p>Porites_lobata_v3_11Islands.raw.Hume_et_al_2022.zenodov2.vcf.genozip - The Pocillopora SNPs referred to as 'raw' in the Methods of the associated manuscript. Compressed using genozip (https://genozip.readthedocs.io/index.html).</p> <p>Porites_lobata_v3_11Islands.raw.Hume_et_al_2022.zenodov2.vcf.genozip.md5 - md5 of the the Pocillopora raw SNPs.</p> <p>Porites_lobata_v3_11Islands_maf05_minQ30_biallelic_nomiss.linked.Hume_et_al_2022.zenodov2.vcf.gz - The Pocillopora SNPs referred to as 'linked' in the Methods of the associated manuscript.</p> <p>Porites_lobata_v3_11Islands_maf05_minQ30_biallelic_nomiss.linked.Hume_et_al_2022.zenodov2.vcf.gz.md5 - md5 of the the Pocillopora linked SNPs.</p> <p>Porites_lobata_v3_11Islands_maf05_minQ30_biallelic_nomiss_LD02.unlinked.Hume_et_al_2022.zenodov2.vcf.gz - The Pocillopora SNPs referred to as 'unlinked' in the Methods of the associated manuscript.</p> <p>Porites_lobata_v3_11Islands_maf05_minQ30_biallelic_nomiss_LD02.unlinked.Hume_et_al_2022.zenodov2.vcf.gz.md5 - md5 of the the Pocillopora unlinked SNPs.</p> <p>PANAMA2021.raw.Hume_et_al_2022.zenodov2.vcf.gz - The Millepora SNPs referred to as 'raw' in the Methods of the associated manuscript.</p> <p>PANAMA2021.raw.Hume_et_al_2022.zenodov2.vcf.gz.md5 - md5 of the the Millepora raw SNPs.</p> <p>Millepora_REF_orthologue_genes.Hume_et_al_2022.zenodov2.csv - The Millepora gene list referred to as 'target genes' in the Methods of the associated manuscript.</p> <p>Mil_transcriptom.Hume_et_al_2022.zenodov2.fa.gz - The Millepora de novo assembled transcriptome.</p> <p>Mil_transcriptom.Hume_et_al_2022.zenodov2.fa.gz.md5 - md5 of the Millepora de novo assembled transcriptome.</p> <p> </p> <p>mtORF Phylogeny</p> <p>TP-Johnston_mtORF-Pocillo.fa = all sequences</p> <p>TP-Johnston_mtORF-Pocillo.mafft.fa = mafft alignment</p> <p>TP-Johnston_mtORF-Pocillo.mafft.ML.nwk = ML tree newick</p> <p> </p> <p>Hellberg genotype network Porites</p> <p>TP-Hellberg_MM32-Porites.nex = all aligned sequences for this locus with indels encoded</p> <p>TP-Hellberg_MM100-Porites.nex = all aligned sequences for this locus with indels encoded</p> <p>TP-Hellberg_ATPaseB.nex = all aligned sequences for this locus with indels encoded,</p> <p>TP-Hellberg_POFAD.nex = POFAD multilocus genotypic distance,</p> <p>TP-Hellberg_Splitstree.nex= Multilocus genotype network in nexus format</p> <p><br> Gradient Forest Analysis</p> <p>Poc_abund.csv - Pocillopora SSH Occurrences per Site er Island</p> <p>Por_abund.csv - Porites SSH Occurrences per Site er Island</p> <p>mean_depth_por.csv - per site per island mean depth among Porites colonies</p> <p>mean_depth_poc.csv - per site per island mean depth among Pocillopora colonies</p>
Population persistence, phenotypic divergence and metabolic adaptation in yarrow (Achillea millefolium L.) along a climate gradient, CA, 1920 to 2023
This dataset provides insights into the persistence and adaptation of yarrow (Achillea millefolium L.) populations over a 100-year period of climate change. The data include plant height measurements and climatic variables (temperature and precipitation) from historical and resurveyed sites spanning a broad environmental gradient (1–3,200 m a.s.l.), alongside metabolic profiles obtained from a common-garden experiment. The dataset captures phenotypic changes in plant growth, metabolic diversity, and site-specific climatic shifts between 1920 and 2020. These data support analyses of how temperature and precipitation interact to shape plant responses over time and allow for exploring patterns of local adaptation in phenotypic and metabolic traits. This comprehensive dataset is valuable for understanding the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms underlying population persistence and can inform conservation strategies under future climate scenarios.
Red Oak Root and Soil Environmental Gradient Study, Midwest U.S., 2022-2023.
Fine root trait and soils data for Quercus rubra L. (northern red oak) sampled along a Midwestern latitudinal gradient. Fourteen sites spanning 5-14 degrees C were sampled. Each sample represents 2 6 cm deep x 5 cm wide soil cores obtained from near the base of a Q. rubra individuals, with 6 sampled plots per site. Plots were located approximately 40 m apart along a linear transect to be at a cluster of Q. rubra individuals. All 14 sites were visited twice in the growing season of 2022: between June 1st and June 21st, and between July 5th and July 21st. Root traits sampled include average diameter, root tissue density, specific root length, branching intensity, and specific respiration rate. A 1 mm diameter limit cut-off was used. These traits were measured in the field (respiration rates) or from output from RhizoVision Explorer image analysis. Traits are associated with the smaller fine root sample used for respiration measurement in the field (~2 g dry weight). Fine root biomass was also obtained by removing all remaining fine roots in the core, drying, and weighing, and then was multiplied by weight-normalized respiration rates to obtain estimates of fine root ecosystem respiration. This data package is complete, but will be associated with data from 4 sites revisited in 2023 to obtain repeat fine root trait measurements and fungal community community metrics.
Mass per tiller, nitrogen concentration, stable isotope ratios for carbon and nitrogen from the 1980-82 Eriophorum vaginatum reciprocal transplant experiment along a latitudinal gradient in interior Alaska collected in July, 2011
In 1980-1982, six transplant gardens were established along a latitudinal gradient in interior Alaska from Eagle Creek, AK in the south to Prudhoe Bay, AK in the north. Three sites, Toolik Lake (TL), Sagwon (SAG), and Prudhoe Bay (PB) are north of the continental divide and the remaining three, Eagle Creek (EC), No Name Creek (NN), and Coldfoot (CF), are south of the continental divide. Each garden consisted of 10 individual Eriophorum vaginatum tussocks transplanted back to their home-site, as well as 10 individuals from each of the other transplant sites. The gardens were harvested in 2011. Important variables are garden name, source population, mass per tiller, nitrogen concentration, and stable isotope ratios for Carbon and Nitrogen.
Repeat photography of tidal fresh forest trees along the salinity gradient of the Altamaha River, GA
We established a transect of 42 stations for repeat photography of tidal fresh forest trees along the salinity gradient of the Altamaha River estuary. Target trees are located approximately every km on both the north and south banks, beginning at km 20 (with 0 at the mouth of the estuary) up to km 41, for a total of 21 km. We used a small boat to travel to each station and take digital photographs of target trees facing the river in Nov 2017, Feb, May, Aug of 2018. In Oct 2018 we extended the transect an additional 5 km downstream so that it now starts at km 16, with 5 more stations on the north bank and 5 on the south bank. All 52 stations were photographed in Oct 2018 and Oct 2019. These photos will be used to distinguish healthy, stressed and dead trees in each image and how they change over time.
Agronomic Yields on the Biodiversity Gradient Experiment at the Kellogg Biological Station, Hickory Corners, MI (2000 to 2020)
Dataset AbstractAgronomic yields have been measured on the Biodiversity Gradient Experiment since 2000. Samples are collected from the corn, soy and winter wheat plots before harvest by harvesting a subplot with a plot combine. Initial soil moisture from the Biodiversity Gradient baseline sampling is also available for corn, soy and wheat plots.original data source http://lter.kbs.msu.edu/datasets/35
NGE01 Chronic Addition of Nitrogen Gradient Experiment (ChANGE): Assessing threshold responses of plant community composition and ecosystem processes at Konza Prairie
Chronic nutrient additions can lead to drastic shifts in the plant community through time, both within tallgrass prairie in other grassland ecosystems worldwide. Nutrient addition experiments have answered many questions about patterns of diversity loss and community shifts; however, the level of nutrients which must be added to cause community shifts is unknown. To date, all nitrogen (N) addition experiments at Konza have added 10 g m-2 (e.g., NutNet Plots; Phosphorus (P) Plots; Belowground Plots), yet current rates of N deposition are one-tenth of that level. Even predicted rates of future N deposition in grasslands are not expected to exceed 5 g m-2 by the year 2050 and will likely be around 2 g m-2 for most of the US. This mismatch begs the question will 10 g/m2 affect grasslands the same way 2 or 5 g m-2 will? There are two main goals for this long-term experiment (1) to identify the nutrient threshold needed to drive plant community change with nutrient additions, and (2) to determine what factors underlie those threshold responses (build up of nutrients, mycorrhizal loss, invertebrate herbivory). Konza ChANGE is part of a multi-site experiment spanning grasslands on two different continents: North America – tallgrass prairie (KNZ) and shortgrass steppe (SGS), and China – three sites in Inner Mongolia. By including multiple grasslands, we expand our ability to make generalizations about how grasslands are affected by N additions, and whether thresholds, if they exist, vary with precipitation, natural nutrient availability, and species identity/composition. Research Questions: (1) Do ecosystems have N tolerance thresholds above which community composition will change, and does that differ between grassland types (i.e. mesic and xeric grasslands)? (2) Does adding a large amount of nutrients in one season result in an equivalent community change as adding a small amount over multiple years? (For example does 5 g m-2 for 6 years create the same community change as
SBC LTER: Reef: Benthic community structure along a gradient of historic kelp variability
These data are estimates of biomass of approximately 225 taxa of reef algae, invertebrates, and fish in transects at 11 non-core sites in the Santa Barbara Channel in summer 2018 (3 transects per site). Sites were selected along a gradient of historic kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) variability, from sites with highly persistent kelp to sites exhibiting extensive variation in kelp biomass since 2008. See the site characteristics data table for site locations and depths. The purpose of the sampling was to explore to what extent the findings from the long-term experiment (e.g. Castorani et al. 2018) apply to natural gradients in kelp persistence. Surveys were conducted following the same methodology used in the annual surveys of kelp forest community structure, such that data from the non-core sites may be paired with annual survey data collected in summer 2018.
Biome Transition Along Elevational Gradients in New Mexico (SEON) Study: Flux Tower Net Primary Productivity (NPP) Quadrat Study at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico
The varied topography and large elevation gradients that characterize the arid and semi-arid Southwest create a wide range of climatic conditions - and associated biomes - within relatively short distances. This creates an ideal experimental system in which to study the effects of climate on ecosystems. Such studies are critical given that the Southwestern U.S. has already experienced changes in climate that have altered precipitation patterns (Mote et al. 2005), and stands to experience dramatic climate change in the coming decades (Seager et al. 2007; Ting et al. 2007). Climate models currently predict an imminent transition to a warmer, more arid climate in the Southwest (Seager et al. 2007; Ting et al. 2007). Thus, high elevation ecosystems, which currently experience relatively cool and mesic climates, will likely resemble their lower elevation counterparts, which experience a hotter and drier climate. In order to predict regional changes in carbon storage, hydrologic partitioning and water resources in response to these potential shifts, it is critical to understand how both temperature and soil moisture affect processes such as evaportranspiration (ET), total carbon uptake through gross primary production (GPP), ecosystem respiration (Reco), and net ecosystem exchange of carbon, water and energy across elevational gradients. We are using a sequence of six widespread biomes along an elevational gradient in New Mexico -- ranging from hot, arid ecosystems at low elevations to cool, mesic ecosystems at high elevation to test specific hypotheses related to how climatic controls over ecosystem processes change across this gradient. We have an eddy covariance tower and associated meteorological instruments in each biome which we are using to directly measure the exchange of carbon, water and energy between the ecosystem and the atmosphere. This gradient offers us a unique opportunity to test the interactive effects of temperature and soil moisture on ecosystem proce
Biome Transition Along Elevational Gradients in New Mexico (SEON) Study: Flux Tower Seasonal Biomass and Seasonal and Annual NPP Data at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico
The varied topography and large elevation gradients that characterize the arid and semi-arid Southwest create a wide range of climatic conditions - and associated biomes - within relatively short distances. This creates an ideal experimental system in which to study the effects of climate on ecosystems. Such studies are critical given that the Southwestern U.S. has already experienced changes in climate that have altered precipitation patterns (Mote et al. 2005), and stands to experience dramatic climate change in the coming decades (Seager et al. 2007; Ting et al. 2007). Climate models currently predict an imminent transition to a warmer, more arid climate in the Southwest (Seager et al. 2007; Ting et al. 2007). Thus, high elevation ecosystems, which currently experience relatively cool and mesic climates, will likely resemble their lower elevation counterparts, which experience a hotter and drier climate. In order to predict regional changes in carbon storage, hydrologic partitioning and water resources in response to these potential shifts, it is critical to understand how both temperature and soil moisture affect processes such as evapotranspiration (ET), total carbon uptake through gross primary production (GPP), ecosystem respiration (Reco), and net ecosystem exchange of carbon, water and energy across elevational gradients. We are using a sequence of six widespread biomes along an elevational gradient in New Mexico -- ranging from hot, arid ecosystems at low elevations to cool, mesic ecosystems at high elevation to test specific hypotheses related to how climatic controls over ecosystem processes change across this gradient. We have an eddy covariance tower and associated meteorological instruments in each biome which we are using to directly measure the exchange of carbon, water and energy between the ecosystem and the atmosphere. This gradient offers us a unique opportunity to test the interactive effects of temperature and soil moisture on ecosystem proces
Real-time ZTD and gradients from 161 EPN stations; year 2020
<p>This dataset contains multi-GNSS real-time products, i.e. ECEF coordinates, zenith total delay (ZTD), and horizontal gradients, together with their uncertainties estimated every 1 minute over the entire year 2020 for 161 EPN (http://epncb.oma.be/) stations.</p> <p>The processing strategy can be found in https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10291-020-01014-w, under to "advanced strategy" configuration, with the exception that only GPS and Galileo observations were considered.</p> <p>For convenience, products are stored in 3 formats (but each contains identical data):</p> <p>1. Standard Matlab MAT files. Each file contains a single table array (Matlab format) with the complete set of estimated parameters for a single station. Table columns are labeled and self-explanatory. A comma-delimited text file can be obtained using the in-build Matlab function "writetable.m".</p> <p>2. Self-explanatory netCDF format (<a href="https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/file_format_specifications.html">https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/file_format_specifications.html</a>), which follows the parameter naming convention of the troposphere SINEX v2 format: <a href="https://www.pecny.cz/WWW_FIL/TRO-SINEX/old/sinex_tro_2017-05-28-JD.pdf">https://www.pecny.cz/WWW_FIL/TRO-SINEX/old/sinex_tro_2017-05-28-JD.pdf</a>. Each file contains data for all stations but only for one month.</p> <p>3. Semicolon delimited text files, with a self-explanatory header line. Each file contains daily products for one station.</p> <p> </p> <p>For visualization see:</p> <p>January https://youtu.be/oU_JaSnhoYI</p> <p>February https://youtu.be/O2LnWOjudGA</p> <p>March https://youtu.be/JVvO25oYcV8</p> <p>April https://youtu.be/2wqY7BKnw8g</p> <p>May https://youtu.be/XY62BMSlbT8</p> <p>June https://youtu.be/37cxhQ-0Y7U</p> <p>July https://youtu.be/MSJVtC-DnVM</p> <p>August https://youtu.be/lfG2GnrYiBo</p> <p>September https://youtu.be/CUrdDYr_lOY</p> <p>October https://youtu.be/pKPsTjKmvtE</p> <p>November https://youtu.be/s5gbtEdwiSM</p> <p>December https://youtu.be/rrn1SuzlM2k</p>
Evenness response to aridity gradients: Data required for Smith et al. 2022 Oecologia
These are the required data to do all analyses in Smith et al. 2022 in Oecologia using the assembled database across gradients. Included are the richness, evenness, and site level abiotic data. Paper abstract: We sought to understand the role that water availability (expressed as an aridity index) plays in determining regional and global patterns of richness and evenness, and in turn how these water availability-diversity relationships may result in different richness-evenness relationships at regional and global scales. We examined relationships between water availability, richness and evenness for eight grassy biomes spanning broad water availability gradients on five continents. Our study found that relationships between richness and water availability switched from positive for drier (South Africa, Tibet and USA) vs. negative for wetter (India) biomes, though were not significant for the remaining biomes. In contrast, only the India biome showed a significant relationship between water availability and evenness, which was negative. Globally, the richness-water availability relationship was hump-shaped, however, not significant for evenness. At the regional scale, a positive richness-evenness relationship was found for grassy biomes in India and Inner Mongolia, China. In contrast, this relationship was weakly concave-up globally. These results suggest that different, independent factors are determining patterns of species richness and evenness in grassy biomes, resulting in differing richness-evenness relationships at regional and global scales. As a consequence, richness and evenness may respond very differently across spatial gradients to anthropogenic changes, such as climate change.
Seagrass morphometry and chlorophyll content at nine stations along a eutrophication gradient in West Falmouth Harbor, 2019
West Falmouth Harbor (West Falmouth, MA, USA) has been experiencing a dramatic increase in nitrogen loading from an upgradient municipal wastewater treatment facility since the early 2000’s. As part of a long-term study into the effects of this nitrogen enrichment, in 2019 we sampled seagrass (Zostera marina) to assess the relationship between sediment biogeochemistry and seagrass ecosystem parameters. This dataset contains information on aboveground and belowground biomass ratios, seagrass density, epiphyte biomass, and chlorophyll content from sites across the eelgrass bed in West Falmouth Harbor that receive varying inputs of nitrogen. The data supports findings reported in Haviland et al., 2022 (https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12025).
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