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- Title
Geospatial observations on tropical forest surface soil chemistry.
- Authors
Wolf, Jeffrey A.; Hubbell, Stephen P.; Fricker, Geoffrey A.; Turner, Benjamin L.
- Abstract
At plot scales (,1 km2) used to study tropical forest plant communities the causes of spatial heterogeneity of soils are disputed. We collected, georeferenced, and chemically analyzed a large spatial sample of soil cores (n ¼ 625 sites, 6.25 cm diameter 3 10 cm depth cores) on an approximately 28 m regular grid from the Barro Colorado Island (BCI) 50-ha (0.5 km2) forest dynamics plot (FDP), Republic of Panama (9.158 N, 79.88 W). Here we present these data for general use. We also present differential GPS measurements of the plot corners for the BCI 50-ha FDP, which aid in geospatial research in one of the most studied tropical forests. Further, we present a free open source command line software program written in Python that allows point data referenced to the plot coordinate system to be converted to a projected coordinate reference system for geospatial research. Together, the data sets allow for testing the drivers of soil heterogeneity in a tropical tree community using a wide variety of geospatial data sources.
- Subjects
TROPICAL forests; SOIL chemistry; GEOSPATIAL data; FOREST dynamics; PYTHON programming language; GEOGRAPHIC information systems; FOREST biogeochemistry
- Publication
Ecology, 2015, Vol 96, Issue 8, p2313
- ISSN
0012-9658
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1890/15-0558.1