Published September 23, 2023 | Version v1

Chronological dataset of soil respiration fluxes from a seasonally dry forest in Northwest México

  • 1. Insituto Tecnologico de Sonora
  • 2. CONACYT-Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN Unidad Saltillo
  • 3. Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California Riverside
  • 4. Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Description

Soil respiration data was acquired and analyzed as described in Vargas-Terminel et al.[1]. Briefly, soil respiration was obtained by measuring changes in CO2 concentrations with a portable soil flux system attached to a static chamber covering a portion of soil. Each measurement cycle in soil lasted 3 mins and was done monthly during a four-year period in 8 to 12 locations within three sites of tropical dry forest in Northwestern Mexico (a recent abandonment, a mid-secondary forest and an old-growth).  Also, simultaneous soil temperature and volumetric soil water content measurements were carried with a thermocouple thermometer and a soil moisture sensor, respectively. Finally, soil respiration flux was calculated with commercial soil data processing software.

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