biostudies-literatureHopple AMU.S. Department of Energy425https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9958149biostudies-literatureUnknown195(3)Coastal upland forests are facing widespread mortality as sea-level rise accelerates and precipitation and storm regimes change. The loss of coastal forests has significant implications for the coastal carbon cycle; yet, predicting mortality likelihood is difficult due to our limited understanding of disturbance impacts on coastal forests. The manipulative, ecosystem-scale Terrestrial Ecosystem Manipulation to Probe the Effects of Storm Treatments (TEMPEST) experiment addresses the potential for freshwater and estuarine-water disturbance events to alter tree function, species composition, and ecosystem processes in a deciduous coastal forest in MD, USA. The experiment uses a large-unit (2000 m²), un-replicated experimental design, with three 50 m × 40 m plots serving as control,Environmental monitoring and assessmentAttaining freshwater and estuarine-water soil saturation in an ecosystem-scale coastal flooding experiment.PMC9958149DE-AC05-76RL01830Regier PWard NDWoodard SCMorris KARich RSengupta AMegonigal JPHopple AMSmith RDoro KOBailey VLMyers-Pigg AMcDowell NPennington SCBond-Lamberty BStegen JfalseAttaining freshwater and estuarine-water soil saturation in an ecosystem-scale coastal flooding experiment.Coastal upland forests are facing widespread mortality as sea-level rise accelerates and precipitation and storm regimes change. The loss of coastal forests has significant implications for the coastal carbon cycle; yet, predicting mortality likelihood is difficult due to our limited understanding of disturbance impacts on coastal forests. The manipulative, ecosystem-scale Terrestrial Ecosystem Manipulation to Probe the Effects of Storm Treatments (TEMPEST) experiment addresses the potential for freshwater and estuarine-water disturbance events to alter tree function, species composition, and ecosystem processes in a deciduous coastal forest in MD, USA. The experiment uses a large-unit (2000 m²), un-replicated experimental design, with three 50 m × 40 m plots serving as control,2023-01-01T00:00:00Z2023 Feb2025-04-19T03:53:32.64Z2025-04-19T03:53:32.64ZS-EPMC99581493682672310.1007/s10661-022-10807-0