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BIFoR FACE : Water–soil–vegetation–atmosphere data from a temperate deciduous forest catchment, including under elevated CO 2
Author(s) -
MacKenzie A. Rob,
Krause Stefan,
Hart Kris M.,
Thomas Richard M.,
Blaen Phillip J.,
Hamilton R. Liz,
Curioni Giulio,
Quick Susan E.,
Kourmouli Angeliki,
Hannah David M.,
ComerWarner Sophie A.,
Brekenfeld Nicolai,
Ullah Sami,
Press Malcolm C.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
hydrological processes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.222
H-Index - 161
eISSN - 1099-1085
pISSN - 0885-6087
DOI - 10.1002/hyp.14096
Subject(s) - deciduous , environmental science , temperate deciduous forest , vegetation (pathology) , temperate forest , drainage basin , surface runoff , hydrology (agriculture) , temperate climate , woodland , soil water , temperate rainforest , forest ecology , atmosphere (unit) , nutrient cycle , ecosystem , ecology , soil science , geography , geology , meteorology , medicine , cartography , geotechnical engineering , pathology , biology
The ecosystem services provided by forests modulate runoff generation processes, nutrient cycling and water and energy exchange between soils, vegetation and atmosphere. Increasing atmospheric CO 2 affects many linked aspects of forest and catchment function in ways we do not adequately understand. Global levels of atmospheric CO 2 will be around 40% higher in 2050 than current levels, yet estimates of how water and solute fluxes in forested catchments will respond to increased CO 2 are highly uncertain. The Free Air CO 2 Enrichment (FACE) facility of the University of Birmingham's Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR) is the only FACE in mature deciduous forest. The site specializes in fundamental studies of the response of whole ecosystem patches of mature, deciduous, temperate woodland to elevated CO 2 (eCO 2 ). Here, we describe a dataset of hydrological parameters – seven weather parameters at each of three heights and four locations, shallow soil moisture and temperature, stream hydrology and CO 2 enrichment – retrieved at high frequency from the BIFoR FACE catchment.