Hourly Soil Respiration Under Drought and Warming Treatments

Hourly soil respiration measurements were taken from October 2023 to November 2024 across eight campaigns in a field-based pasture experiment. The data captures the effects of factorial rainfall and warming treatments on overall respiration and rewetting-induced pulses. It includes associated soil parameters from rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere zones to analyze drivers of carbon flux.

Use Cases

• Modeling soil respiration sensitivity to temperature and moisture based on hourly flux data.
• Analyzing seasonal shifts in drought-warming interactions on carbon efflux.
• Investigating the drivers of rewetting-induced respiration pulses using rhizosphere and bulk soil parameters.
• Validating ecosystem models that incorporate the 'Birch effect' under projected climate extremes.

Strengths

• High-resolution temporal data from an automated flux monitoring system measuring hourly soil respiration.
• Factorial experimental design derived from 30 years of regional climate records, providing realistic treatment extremes.
• Cross-platform presence on DataCite and Figshare indicates established provenance and reusability.

Limitations

• Column names and a precise row count are not provided in the available metadata, limiting immediate assessment of data structure.
• The dataset size is given (1,760,674 bytes), but its composition (e.g., number of observations) is unknown.

Provenance

Source

Field-based pasture climate-manipulation experiment conducted by Pankaj Tiwari.

Collection Method

Data gathered via an automated flux monitoring system across eight measurement campaigns.

Time Range

October 2023 to November 2024

Freshness

Last updated March 25, 2026.