High-resolution data on the impact of warming on soil CO₂ efflux from an Asian monsoon forest.

ABSTRACT: This paper describes a project for evaluation of global warming's impacts on soil carbon dynamics in Japanese forest ecosystems. We started a soil warming experiment in late 2008 in a 55-year-old evergreen broad-leaved forest at the boundary between the subtropical and warm-temperate biomes in southern Japan. We used infrared carbon-filament heat lamps to increase soil temperature by about 2.5 °C at a depth of 5 cm and continuously recorded CO₂ emission from the soil surface using a multichannel automated chamber system. Here, we present details of the experimental processes and datasets for the CO₂ emission rate, soil temperature, and soil moisture from control, trenched, and warmed trenched plots. The long term of the study and its high resolution make the datasets

SUBMITTER: Liang N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5386236 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature