EdmundFeburaryUniversity of Cape Town

University of Cape TownCape TownSouth Africa

StevenHigginsDepartment of Physical Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

Altenhoeferallee 1Frankfurt am MainHesse60438Germany

The Andrew Mellon Foundation

FoundingThe data contains measurements on soil respiration from 20 plots in the research exclosure of the University of Cape Town in southern Kruger National Park, South Africa. The experiment design constists of 20 different plots with 4 different treatmens (grass only, tree only, both, vegetation exclusion). Measurements were taken between September 2011 and January 2012.kruger national parksavannasoil respirationtree-grass-interactionContact owner before usagesouthern Kruger National Park, Mpumalanga, South Africa26.031.625-20.125-31.3752011-09-012012-01-31EdmundFeburaryUniversity of Cape Town

University of Cape TownCape TownSouth Africa

edmund.february@uct.ac.zaStevenHigginsDepartment of Physical Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

Altenhoeferallee 1Frankfurt am MainHesse60438Germany

Measurement was performed following the standard protocol from the Li-g400 manual.

Licor Li-8100 soil respiration system with attached Theta Probe (model ml2x) an a k type thermocouple 1-tgp_exclosure_gasplot_respiration.csv 1-tgp_exclosure_gasplot_respiration.csv12117 1#x0Acolumn ; ecogrid://knb/shiggins.282.1 public read CodePLACEHOLDER PLACEHOLDER DateDate of sampling DD.MM.YYYY0 TreatmentTreatment applied to the plot. Describes the vegetation on the plot RRespiration only, no vegetation GGrass TTree TGTree + grass PlotNoIdentification number of the plot the measurement was performed on Identification number of the plot the measurement was performed on CodeIdentification code of the plot the measurement was performed on. Combination of plot treatment and number Combination of plot treatment and number FluxCO2 efflux rate in mol m-2s-1 (exponential fit) molpersquaremeterpersecond real MatchPLACEHOLDER PLACEHOLDER H20 AirChamber water vapor concentration mmolpermol real RH AirRelative humidity of air in the li-8100 chamber % real Temp SoilSoil temperature measured by a k-type thermocouple, at 10 cm depth celsius real Volumetric soil moisture contentmeasured with the auxiliary Theta model Probe ml2x fully inserted on the surface millivolt real170attached_fileNot authorized to access resourceOtherattached_fileNot authorized to access resourceOtherattached_fileNot authorized to access resourceOther percent mmolpermol molpersquaremeterpersecond