Title:

Hill Demonstration Forest HF1 and HF2 riparian buffer and HF2 upland soil moisture data

Author(s):

Boggs, Johnny L.; Sun, Ge; McNulty, Steven G.

Publication Year:

2020

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Boggs, Johnny L.; Sun, Ge; McNulty, Steven G. 2020. Hill Demonstration Forest HF1 and HF2 riparian buffer and HF2 upland soil moisture data. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2020-0067

Abstract:

This data publication contains hourly soil moisture data from three locations (defined as HF1 riparian buffer, HF2 riparian buffer, and HF2 upland) in a pair of watersheds on Hill Demonstration Forest (HF). Hourly soil moisture readings were monitored from 2010-2016 at the HF1 and HF2 riparian buffer locations at depths of 10 centimeters (cm) and 30 cm. At the HF2 upland location hourly soil mositure readings were monitored from 2015-2016 at depths of 10 cm and 60 cm.

The HF is located north of Durham, North Carolina and is owned by North Carolina State University. Upland trees were harvested in HF1 watershed from 29 November 2010 to 19 January 2011 as part of a Timber Harvest/Best Management Practices Project, leaving a 15.2-meter (m) riparian buffer on either side of the stream. HF1 is the treatment watershed, and HF2 is the reference watershed. Therefore, no logging activities occurred in HF2. Although HF1 and HF2 are paired and share a watershed boundary line, the clearcut edge in HF1 is 130 m from HF2 monitored riparian buffer trees and poses little chance to create changes in HF2 riparian buffer soil or canopy conditions that would influence their water use. The riparian buffer covers about 8% of the watershed area in both HF1 and HF2.

Keywords:

inlandWaters; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Hydrology, watersheds, sedimentation; best management practice; riparian buffer; sap flux density; soil moisture; transpiration; North Carolina; Hill Demonstration Forest; Piedmont

Related publications:

• Boggs, Johnny L.; Sun, Ge; Domec, Jean-Christophe; McNulty, Steven G.; Treasure, Emrys. 2015. Clearcutting upland forest alters transpiration of residual trees in the riparian buffer zone. Hydrological Processes. 29(4): 4979-4992. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.10474
• Boggs, Johnny L.; Sun, Ge; McNulty, Steven G. 2016. Effects of timber harvest on water quantity and quality in small watersheds in the Piedmont of North Carolina. Journal of Forestry. 114(1): 27-40. https://doi.org/10.5849/jof.14-102

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