Summary Information
Warming-El Nino-Nitrogen Deposition Experiment (WENNDEx): Soil Moisture Data from the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico (1/2006-8/2009)
Creator:
Individual: Scott Collins
Organization: SEV LTER
Physical Address:
Delivery Address: Department of Biology, MSC03 2020, 1 University of New Mexico
City: Albuquerque
Locality: NM
Postal Code: 87131
Email: scollins@sevilleta.unm.edu
System ID: 12275
Creator:
Individual: William Pockman
Organization: SEV LTER
Physical Address:
Delivery Address: Department of Biology, MSC03 2020, 1 University of New Mexico
City: Albuquerque
Locality: NM
Postal Code: 87131
Email: pockman@unm.edu
System ID: 12857
Associated Party:
Individual: Yang Xia
Organization: SEV LTER
Physical Address:
Delivery Address: Sevilleta LTER UNM Biology Department, MSC03 2020 1 University of New Mexico
City: Albuquerque
Postal Code: 87131
Phone: USA
Phone: (505) 277-8119
Phone: (505) 277.5355
Email: yxia@lternet.edu
Role: data manager
Publication Date: 2011
Language: english
Abstract:
This data set provides soil moisture data in each plot of the warming experiment (see SEV176). Data are collected with automated soil moisture probes at 30-minute intervals at two soil depths under grass and bare patches in each of the 40 plots.
Keywords:
Keyword: inorganic nutrients
Keyword Thesaurus: Core Areas
Additional Information:
Study Area Name: Warming siteStudy Area Location: Within the Sevilleta, the site is located just Northeast of Deep Well meteorological station. The site can be reached by parking on the main road next to the signs for deep well and the minirhiztron study. Note that the road to Deep Well met station does not permit vehicles. Travel on foot towards deep well and look for a well-trod path off to the right shortly before the met station. Vegetation: The vegetation is Chihuahuan Desert Grassland, dominated by black grama (Bouteloua eriopoda and B. gracilis).North Coordinate:34.35946709South Coordinate:34.35995732East Coordinate:106.69020587West Coordinate:106.69086619
Intellectual Rights:
Data Policies
This dataset is released to the public and may be freely downloaded. Please keep the designated Contact person informed of any plans to use the dataset. Consultation or collaboration with the original investigators is strongly encouraged. Publications and data products that make use of the dataset must include proper acknowledgement of the Sevilleta LTER. Datasets must be cited as in the example below. Muldavin, E. 2004. Sevilleta LTER Fertilizer NPP Study Dataset. Albuquerque, NM: Sevilleta Long Term Ecological Research Site Database: SEV155. (Date of download) A copy of any publications using these data must be supplied to the Sevilleta LTER Information Manager.
Distribution:
Online:
URL: http://sev.lternet.edu/node/1400
Coverage:
Geographic Goverage:
Geographic Description: Location: The Warming site is located just to the northeast of the Deep Well meteorological station. The site can best be accessed by parking on the main road next to signs for Deep Well and the mini-rhizotron study. Note that vehicles are not permitted on the road to the Deep Well meteorological station.  Travel on foot towards Deep Well and look for a well-trod path to the northwest shortly before the meteorological station.  For plot maps, see power point slides in the on-line Sevilleta LTER WIKI page. On August 4, 2009, a lightning-initiated fire began on the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge. By August 5, 2009, the fire had reached the Warming site, which was burned extensively though not entirely. Approximately 50% of plots burned on August 5 and those plots which did not burn were burned within three weeks by US Fish and Wildlife.  Thus, the condition of all plots at the Warming site was comparable by early September 2009.Vegetation: The vegetation is Chihuahuan Desert Grassland, dominated by black grama (Bouteloua eriopoda) and blue grama (B. gracilis)., siteid: 28
Bounding Coordinates:
West Bounding Coordinates: -106.6908662
East Bounding Coordinates: -106.6908662
North Bounding Coordinates: 34.35946709
South Bounding Coordinates: 34.35946709
Temporal Coverage:
Date Range:
Begin Date:
Calendar Date: 2006-06-01
End Date:
Calendar Date: 2009-07-23
Contact:
Position Title: Information Manager
Organization: LTER Network Office
Physical Address:
Delivery Address: UNM Biology Department, MSC03-2020
Delivery Address: 1 University of New Mexico
City: Albuquerque
Locality: NM
Postal Code: 87131-0001
Phone: USA
Phone: 505 277-2535
Phone: 505 277-2541
Email: tech-support@lternet.edu
URL: http://www.lternet.edu
Contact:
Individual: Information Manager Sevilleta LTER
Organization: SEV LTER
Physical Address:
Delivery Address: 1 University of New Mexico
City: Albuquerque
Postal Code: 87131
Phone: (505) 277-2109
Phone: (505) 277.5355
Email: data-use@sevilleta.unm.edu
Publication Place: Sevilleta LTER
Method Step:
Description:
Experimental Design Our experimental design consists of three fully crossed factors (warming, increased winter precipitation, and N addition) in a completely randomized design, for a total of eight treatment combinations, with five replicates of each treatment combination, for a total of 40 plots. Each plot is 3 x 3.5 m. All plots contain B. eriopoda, B. gracilis and G. sarothrae. Our nighttime warming treatment is imposed using lightweight aluminum fabric shelters (mounted on rollers similar to a window shade) that are drawn across the warming plots each night to trap outgoing longwave radiation. The dataloggers controlling shelter movements are programmed to retract the shelters on nights when wind speeds exceed a threshold value (to prevent damage to shelters) and when rain is detected by a rain gauge or snow is detected by a leaf wetness sensor (to prevent an unintended rainout effect).Each winter we impose an El Nino-like rainfall regime (50% increase over long-term average for non-El Nino years) using an irrigation system and RO water. El Nino rains are added in 6 experimental storm events that mimic actual El Nino winter-storm event size and frequency. From January-March, there are 4x5mm applications, 1x10mm application, and 1x20mm application. During El Nino years we use ambient rainfall and do not impose experimental rainfall events. For N deposition, we add 2.0 g m-2 y-1 of N in the form of NH4NO3 because NH4 and NO3 contribute approximately equally to N deposition at SNWR (57% NH4 and 43% NO3; Bez et al., 2007). The NH4NO3 is dissolved in 12 liters of deionized water, equivalent to a 1 mm rainfall event, and applied with a backpack sprayer prior to the summer monsoon. Control plots receive the same amount of deionized water.Soil moisture in each plot is measured at 5 and 15 cm beneath grass and bare soil using 10 cm ECH2O probes buried horizontal to the surface. Measurements are taken at 15 minute intervals.
Instrumentation: Instrument Name: ECH2O probesManufacturer: DecagonModel Number: ECH2O EA-10
Quality Control:
Description:
VWC values were flagged with 'I' if they fell outside the range of 0 to 0.7.   
Data Table:
Entity Name: sev183_warmingvwc_20130125.txt
Object Name: sev183_warmingvwc_20130125.txt
Data Format:
Text Format:
Number of Header Lines: 1
Record Delimiter: \r\n
Attribute Orientation: column
Simple Delimited:
Field Delimiter: ,
Distribution:
Online:
URL: https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/data/eml/knb-lter-sev/183/136316/8064533d9aafb68d6316ef0ff8377313
Coverage:
Temporal Coverage:
Date Range:
Begin Date:
Calendar Date: 2007-03-13
End Date:
Calendar Date: 2009-08-05
Attribute List:
Attribute Name: timestamp
Attribute Label: timestamp
Attribute Definition: time recorded by Campbell datalogger when observation was collected
Storage Type: date
Measurement Scale:
Datetime:
Format String: YYYYMMDDhhmmss
Attribute Name: date
Attribute Label: date
Attribute Definition: date and time as recorded by Campbell datalogger
Storage Type: date
Measurement Scale:
Datetime:
Format String: MM/DD/YYThh:mm:ss
Attribute Name: plot
Attribute Label: plot
Attribute Definition: The plot at which data was collected.
Storage Type: string
Measurement Scale:
Nominal:
Non Numeric Domain:
Text Domain:
Definition: The plot at which data was collected.
Attribute Name: treatment number
Attribute Label: treatment#
Attribute Definition: The number of the treatment applied to the plot
Storage Type: string
Measurement Scale:
Nominal:
Non Numeric Domain:
Enumerated Domain:
Code Definition:
Code: 1
Definition: control (C)
Code Definition:
Code: 2
Definition: temperature (T)
Code Definition:
Code: 3
Definition: precipitation (P)
Code Definition:
Code: 4
Definition: nitrogen (N)
Code Definition:
Code: 5
Definition: temperature and precipitation (TP)
Code Definition:
Code: 6
Definition: temperature and nitrogen (TN)
Code Definition:
Code: 7
Definition: precipitation and nitrogen (PN)
Code Definition:
Code: 8
Definition: temperature, precipitation, and nitrogen (TPN)
Attribute Name: treatment
Attribute Label: treatment
Attribute Definition: The experimental regime applied to a project.
Storage Type: string
Measurement Scale:
Nominal:
Non Numeric Domain:
Enumerated Domain:
Code Definition:
Code: C
Definition: Control plot.
Code Definition:
Code: N
Definition: Nitrogen manipulated.
Code Definition:
Code: P
Definition: Precipitation manipulated.
Code Definition:
Code: PN
Definition: Precipitation and nitrogen manipulated.
Code Definition:
Code: T
Definition: Temperature manipulated.
Code Definition:
Code: TN
Definition: Temperature and nitrogen manipulated.
Code Definition:
Code: TP
Definition: Temperature and precipitation manipulated.
Code Definition:
Code: TPN
Definition: Temperature, precipitation, and nitrogen manipulated.
Attribute Name: depth
Attribute Label: depth
Attribute Definition: depth of probe from soil surface
Measurement Scale:
Ratio:
Unit:
Standard Unit: centimeter
Numeric Domain:
Number Type: real
Bounds:
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 15
Attribute Name: location
Attribute Label: location
Attribute Definition: indicates whether the probe was aboveground or inserted in bare ground or underneath a grass
Storage Type: string
Measurement Scale:
Nominal:
Non Numeric Domain:
Enumerated Domain:
Code Definition:
Code: Air
Definition: aboveground probe
Code Definition:
Code: Grass
Definition: in the ground underneath a grass plant
Code Definition:
Code: Bare
Definition: in the ground in a bare patch
Attribute Name: volumetric water content
Attribute Label: vwc
Attribute Definition: vwc is water volume divided by the water volume + soil volume + airspace
Measurement Scale:
Ratio:
Unit:
Standard Unit: dimensionless
Numeric Domain:
Number Type: real
Attribute Name: vwc_flag
Attribute Label: vwc_flag
Attribute Definition: quality control flags for vwc
Storage Type: string
Measurement Scale:
Nominal:
Non Numeric Domain:
Enumerated Domain:
Code Definition:
Code: Q
Definition: out or range ( less than 0 or more than 0.7)