{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Moreno J"],"funding":["European Research Council","Generalitat Valenciana (Regional Government of Valencia)"],"pagination":["14"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8776732"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["9(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Drylands cover ~41% of the terrestrial surface. In these water-limited ecosystems, soil moisture contributes to multiple hydrological processes and is a crucial determinant of the activity and performance of above- and belowground organisms and of the ecosystem processes that rely on them. Thus, an accurate characterisation of the temporal dynamics of soil moisture is critical to improve our understanding of how dryland ecosystems function and are responding to ongoing climate change. Furthermore, it may help improve climatic forecasts and drought monitoring. Here we present the MOISCRUST dataset, a long-term (2006-2020) soil moisture dataset at a sub-daily resolution from five different microsites (vascular plants and biocrusts) in a Mediterranean semiarid dryland located in Central Spain"],"journal":["Scientific data"],"pubmed_title":["Fourteen years of continuous soil moisture records from plant and biocrust-dominated microsites."],"pmcid":["PMC8776732"],"funding_grant_id":["647038","CIDEGENT/2018/041","ERC Grant agreement 647038 [BIODESERT]"],"pubmed_authors":["Pescador DS","Berdugo M","Gozalo B","Ochoa V","Asensio S","Maestre FT","Moreno J","Benito BM"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Fourteen years of continuous soil moisture records from plant and biocrust-dominated microsites.","description":"Drylands cover ~41% of the terrestrial surface. In these water-limited ecosystems, soil moisture contributes to multiple hydrological processes and is a crucial determinant of the activity and performance of above- and belowground organisms and of the ecosystem processes that rely on them. Thus, an accurate characterisation of the temporal dynamics of soil moisture is critical to improve our understanding of how dryland ecosystems function and are responding to ongoing climate change. Furthermore, it may help improve climatic forecasts and drought monitoring. Here we present the MOISCRUST dataset, a long-term (2006-2020) soil moisture dataset at a sub-daily resolution from five different microsites (vascular plants and biocrusts) in a Mediterranean semiarid dryland located in Central Spain","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Jan","modification":"2026-05-31T02:10:26.511Z","creation":"2025-04-04T23:03:19.89Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8776732","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35058464"],"doi":["10.1038/s41597-021-01111-6"]}}