Climate Change Across Seasons Experiment (CCASE) Sapling Study at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest: Growth and Litter
Data Repository
Environmental Data Initiative
Publication Date
1-1-2019
Department
Earth Systems Research Center
Description or Abstract
Litterfall production and stem growth of red maple and sugar maple saplings were assessed as measures of aboveground productivity in 2013 (to determine baseline values before treatment was initiated) and in 2014 after saplings experienced a combination of soil warming and winter freeze-thaw cycles treatments. There were seven treatments for each species of maple. For each species, ten saplings experienced ambient temperatures (reference), ten experienced growing season warming with no induced freeze-thaw cycles in winter (warmed), ten in each of four groups experienced warming in the growing season coupled with two, four, six, or eight soil freeze-thaw cycles in winter (warmed + 2 FTC, warmed + 4 FTC, warmed + 6 FTC, warmed + 8 FTC), and ten experienced snow removal in winter with ambient temperatures in the growing-season (snow removal). These data were gathered as part of the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study (HBES). The HBES is a collaborative effort at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, which is operated and maintained by the USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station.
Access
Public (open access)
Recommended Citation
Templer, Pamela and Sanders-DeMott, Rebecca, "Climate Change Across Seasons Experiment (CCASE) Sapling Study at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest: Growth and Litter" (2019). Data Catalog. 80.
https://scholars.unh.edu/data_series/80