Table 8 Data dictionary for air and soil temperature data from iButtons from Mt. Gongga (dataset vi).

From: Plant traits and vegetation data from climate warming experiments along an 1100 m elevation gradient in Gongga Mountains, China

Variable name

Variable type

Variable range or levels

How measured

Units/formats/level coding

Date

date

[yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm_ss]

logged

 

Temperature (value)

numeric

 

logged

°C

turfID

factor

[site]x[block]x[treatment]

defined

A1-C – L7-OTC

Site

factor

[site]

defined

High alpine (H), Alpine (A), Middle (M), Lowland (L)

Treatment

Factor

[treatment code]

Defined

Control (C), OTC

depth

factor

[code]

defined

air (30 cm), ground (0 cm), soil (−5 cm)

  1. Data dictionary with column descriptions for dataset vi – the TomsT logger data from Open Top Chambers (OTCs) and control plots at four sites along the 1100 m altitudinal gradient in Mt. Gongga, China.
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