Northeastern Puerto Rico open-canopy and under-canopy temperature and moisture data on an elevational gradient

The data archive is here:https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2022-0051 please use this DOI when citing this dataset. This data publication contains monthly means of temperature and moisture data collected from August 2006 through September 2021 from 22 locations along an elevational gradient, from 0 to 1045 meters, in Northeastern Puerto Rico. The higher elevational data are in the Luquillo Experimental Forest (El Yunque National Forest). Five kinds of data are included: air temperature and precipitation measured in the open (not under canopy) at 20 locations, air temperature and soil temperature both measured under the canopy at all 22 locations, and soil moisture under the canopy at 4 locations. Two locations have 3 sites each, measured in different canopy types at the same location. The other 20 locations have one site each, making a total of 26 measurement sites. Data are provided as monthly averages at each site. Support for this work was provided by grants BSR-8811902, DEB-9411973, DEB-9705814 , DEB-0080538, DEB-0218039 , DEB-0620910 , DEB-1239764, DEB-1546686, and DEB-1831952 from the National Science Foundation to the University of Puerto Rico as part of the Luquillo Long-Term Ecological Research Program. Additional support provided by the University of Puerto Rico and the International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service.