Plot-level soil temperature and moisture data for a tropical forest understory warming experiment (TRACE) in Luquillo, Puerto Rico, 2015-2023

The Tropical Responses to Altered Climate Experiment (TRACE) is a forest
understory warming experiment aimed at understanding how increased
temperature and disturbance affect carbon cycling and ecosystem
processes in tropical forests. This dataset contains plot-level soil
temperature and moisture data from six experimental plots at TRACE;
three plots are experimentally warmed with infrared heaters to a target
understory temperature of 4˚C above ambient, and three plots are
un-warmed control plots. Each plot has five Campbell Scientific CS655
soil sensors: three at a depth of 0-10 cm, one at a depth of 20-30 cm,
and another at a depth of 40-50 cm. Data in this package were cleaned
and formatted to include information about sensor location within the
plots. This data package contains one CSV file per year from October
2015 to December 2023, for a total of nine data files, as well as a data
dictionary describing the variables.<br>