Soil Moisture (Volumetric, Automated) — GLBRC Marginal Land Rainfall Exclusion Experiment
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Volumetric soil water content under rainfall exclusion “rainout” shelters and in adjacent “ambient” and “reserved” subplots of the Marginal Land Rainfall Exclusion Experiment measured with Campbell CS655 soil moisture sensors (https://www.campbellsci.com/cs655) buried horizontally at 10 cm and 25 cm depths and recorded hourly on Campbell CR800 dataloggers.
This datatable is part of the Marginal Land Rainfall Exclusion Experiment dataset.
This dataset contains data from the GLBRC Marginal Land Rainfall Exclusion Experiment established in 2018 to examine the effects of drought on switchgrass production and composition. Rainfall exclusion (rainout) shelters are deployed over the growing season in fertilized split plots of the Switchgrass treatment (G5) at all sites of the Marginal Land Experiment (MLE) and in the Switchgrass treatment (G5) plots of the Biofuel Cropping System Experiment (BCSE) at the KBS GLBRC Intensive Site, which serves as a reference for cropped soils with higher fertility. Rainout shelters are deployed in four G5 replicate plots of the BCSE (R2-R5) and of the MLE (R1-R4) at all sites except Wisconsin Central–Hancock (R2-R4), which has only three replicates.
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| Experiment: | GLBRC Marginal Land Rainfall Exclusion Experiment |
| Data available from: | July 2018 to February 2025 |
| Dataset: | GLBRC134 |
| Datatable ID: | GLBRC094-012.122 |
| Core Areas | Primary Production,Disturbance |
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| Last Updated | 2025-02-18 |
| Variate | Description | Units |
|---|---|---|
| site | experiment site | |
| subplot | rainfall manipulation | |
| datetime | sample date and time in UTC | |
| treatment | crop treatment | |
| replicate | replicate nested in treatment | |
| depth | sampling depth | cm |
| vwc | volumetric water content | m^3/m^3 |
| ec | electrical conductivity | dS/m |
| temperature | temperature at the sampling depth | C |
| permittivity | dielectric permittivity of the soil (in C2N-1m-2) divided by the dielectric permittivity of a vacuum (8.85E-12 C2N-1m-2). | |
| period | µS | |
| voltage ratio | Volt/Volt | |
| sheltered | "sheltered" if the shelter was in place on the rainout treatment during this time. "open" if the shelter was not in place on the rainout treatment during this time. "unset" iif the shelter status has not yet been manually updated | |
| sample id | the internal sample id (for debugging purposes) |
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| site | subplot | sample_datetime | treatment | replicate | depth | vwc | ec | temperature | permittivity | period | voltage_ratio | sheltered | sample_id |
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| Michigan Central - Lake City Exp. Station | reserved | 2025-07-13 05:00:00 +0000 | G5 | R1 | 10.0 | unset | 4842012 | ||||||
| Michigan Central - Lake City Exp. Station | ambient | 2025-07-13 05:00:00 +0000 | G5 | R1 | 10.0 | unset | 4842012 | ||||||
| Michigan Central - Lake City Exp. Station | rainout | 2025-07-13 05:00:00 +0000 | G5 | R1 | 10.0 | unset | 4842012 | ||||||
| Michigan Central - Lake City Exp. Station | rainout | 2025-07-13 05:00:00 +0000 | G5 | R1 | 25.0 | unset | 4842012 | ||||||
| Michigan Central - Lake City Exp. Station | reserved | 2025-07-13 05:00:00 +0000 | G5 | R1 | 25.0 | unset | 4842012 |