Fernandez-Bou, Angel Santiago; Dierick, Diego; Swanson, Amanda Cantu; Allen, Michael Fred; Alvarado, Ana Grace Fitzimons; Artavia-León, Allan; Carrasquillo-Quintana, Odemaris; Lachman, Deo Anthony; Oberbauer, Steven F; Pinto-Tomás, Adrián; Rodríguez-Reyes, Yorelyz; Schwendenmann, Luitgard; Zelikova, Tamara Jane; Harmon, Thomas Christopher (2018): CO2 emission from ant vents (Atta cephalotes) at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica (2017) [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.887401, In supplement to: Fernandez-Bou, AS et al. (2019): The Role of the Ecosystem Engineer, the Leaf‐Cutter Ant Atta cephalotes, on Soil CO2 Dynamics in a Wet Tropical Rainforest. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124(2), 260-273, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JG004723
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Coverage:
Latitude: 10.431200 * Longitude: -84.003400
Date/Time Start: 2017-01-24T21:03:00 * Date/Time End: 2017-07-24T11:36:00
Minimum Elevation: 35.0 m * Maximum Elevation: 135.0 m
Event(s):
Comment:
NOTE: in the file "vent values.xlsx" of doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.887400 there is a brief description of the methodology and the relevance of the start/end points.
Parameter(s):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DATE/TIME | Date/Time | Fernandez-Bou, Angel Santiago | Geocode | ||
| 2 | Carbon dioxide, flux | CO2 flux | µmol/m2/s | Fernandez-Bou, Angel Santiago | efflux | |
| 3 | Time in seconds | Time | s | Fernandez-Bou, Angel Santiago | start of the 300-s measuring cycle of the efflux calculation | |
| 4 | Time in seconds | Time | s | Fernandez-Bou, Angel Santiago | end of the 300-s measuring cycle of the efflux calculation | |
| 5 | Slope description | Slope desc | Fernandez-Bou, Angel Santiago | slope = dCO2/dt [s-1]. See supplementary material on Fernandez-Bou et al (in review). | ||
| 6 | Coefficient of determination | R**2 | Fernandez-Bou, Angel Santiago | coefficient of determination of the regression calculated using [CO2] in time | ||
| 7 | Temperature, difference | delta T | °C | Fernandez-Bou, Angel Santiago | temperature difference in the chamber from start to end time | |
| 8 | Temperature, technical | T tech | °C | Fernandez-Bou, Angel Santiago | average temperature in the chamber during the measurement | |
| 9 | Humidity, relative | RH | % | Fernandez-Bou, Angel Santiago | ||
| 10 | Coefficient | Coeff | Fernandez-Bou, Angel Santiago | chamber coefficient, P V / (R A T). See supplementary material on Fernandez-Bou et al (in review) | ||
| 11 | Area | Area | m2 | Fernandez-Bou, Angel Santiago | section area of the vent on the soil surface |
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
Size:
1500 data points