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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 May 2019
Dataset: GLBRC134
Datatable ID: GLBRC094-012.119
Core Areas Primary Production,Disturbance
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Last Updated 2023-10-24
Variate Description Units
site experiment site
subplot rainfall manipulation
datetime sample date and time
treatment crop treatment
replicate replicate nested in treatment
depth sampling depth
vwc volumetric water content m^3/m^3
ec electrical conductivity dS/m
temperature temperature at the sampling depth
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
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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Data Excerpt

site subplot sample_datetime treatment replicate depth vwc ec temperature permittivity period voltage_ratio sheltered sample_id
Michigan BCSE reserved 2023-12-11 18:00:00 +0000 G5 R3 10.0 0.313 0.047 2.897 17.54 1.671 1.058 unset 4443010
Michigan BCSE ambient 2023-12-11 18:00:00 +0000 G5 R3 10.0 0.341 0.046 3.198 19.67 1.712 1.056 unset 4443010
Michigan BCSE rainout 2023-12-11 18:00:00 +0000 G5 R3 10.0 0.327 0.047 3.038 18.53 1.697 1.059 unset 4443010
Michigan BCSE ambient 2023-12-11 18:00:00 +0000 G5 R3 25.0 0.363 0.152 3.995 21.45 1.761 1.186 unset 4443010
Michigan BCSE rainout 2023-12-11 18:00:00 +0000 G5 R3 25.0 0.338 0.102 3.887 19.41 1.71 1.129 unset 4443010
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