Annual Soil Respiration Measurements for Alpine Meadow and Steppe Ecosystems in 2023

Annual manually synchronized soil respiration measurements in alpine meadow and alpine steppe ecosystems in 2023. The dataset was authored by Luyun Chen and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license. It was last updated on 2026-05-17.

Use Cases

• Modeling carbon fluxes in alpine ecosystems based on annual soil respiration measurements.
• Comparing soil respiration rates between alpine meadow and alpine steppe biomes.
• Calibrating or validating remote sensing estimates of soil CO2 emissions using ground-truth data.

Strengths

• Data is manually synchronized, suggesting a controlled measurement methodology.
• The dataset is focused on two distinct alpine ecosystem types (meadow and steppe) for comparative analysis.
• It is openly available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 37.4 KB, indicating limited scope.
• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, requiring manual inspection after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Luyun Chen

Collection Method

Manually synchronized measurements.

Time Range

2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 07:06:08; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Alpine meadow and alpine steppe ecosystems (specific location unknown).