Title:

Seedling census and natural enemy survey data at a tropical understory forest warming experiment (TRACE) in Puerto Rico from 2015-2017

Author(s):

Bachelot, Bénédicte; Alonso-Rodríguez, Aura M.; Aldrich-Wolfe, Laura; Cavaleri, Molly A.; Reed, Sasha C.; Wood, Tana E.

Publication Year:

2023

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Bachelot, Bénédicte; Alonso-Rodríguez, Aura M.; Aldrich-Wolfe, Laura; Cavaleri, Molly A.; Reed, Sasha C.; Wood, Tana E. 2023. Seedling census and natural enemy survey data at a tropical understory forest warming experiment (TRACE) in Puerto Rico from 2015-2017. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2023-0039

Abstract:

The data in this package were used to evaluate the effects of a natural drought and in situ experimental warming on density-dependent feedbacks on seedling demography at the Tropical Responses to Altered Climate Experiment (TRACE) in Luquillo, Puerto Rico from June 2015 through June 2017. The TRACE site consists of three control plots and three plots that are experimentally warmed using infrared heaters. Seedling surveys at each plot were conducted each year and data including seedling height, root collar diameter, leaf counts, mortality, etc. were measured. Aboveground natural enemy surveys were conducted annually during the seedling surveys. Leaves from each seedling were assessed for damage, and the number of unique damage morphotypes were counted for the following natural enemies: gall makers, grazers, endophytes, leaf miners, and pathogens. Additionally, Guarea guidonia seedlings from outside of each plot were collected in 2017 and root morphology data were collected using root scans.

Keywords:

biota; climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere; Climate change; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Plant ecology; Forest & Plant Health; climate change; negative density dependence; positive density dependence; tropical wet forest; Luquillo Experimental Forest; Puerto Rico; El Yunque National Forest; Sabana Field Research Station

Related publications:

• Bachelot, Bénédicte; Alonso-Rodríguez, Aura M.; Aldrich-Wolfe, Laura; Cavaleri, Molly A.; Reed, Sasha C.; Wood, Tana E. 2020. Altered climate leads to positive density-dependent feedbacks in a tropical wet forest. Global Change Biology. 26(6): 3417-3428. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15087 https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/59917

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