The fortedata R package: open-science datasets from a manipulative experiment testing forest resilience

• DOI: 10.5194/essd-2020-112
• Publication Date: 2020-09-10T06:27:35Z
• Authors: Jeff W. Atkins; Elizabeth Agee; Alexandra Barry; Kyla M. Dahlin; Kalyn Dorheim; Maxim S. Grigri; Lisa T. Haber; Laura J. Hickey; Aaron G. Kamoske; Kayla Mathes; Catherine McGuigan; Evan Paris; Stephanie C. Penn...; Carly Rodriguez; Autym Shafer; Alexey Shiklomanov; Jason Tallant; Christopher M. Gough; Ben Bond-Lamberty
• Keywords: Environmental sciences; 0106 biological sciences; QE1-996.5; 13. Climate action; GE1-350; Geology; 15. Life on land; 01 natural sciences

Abstract. The fortedata R package is an open data notebook from the Forest Resilience Threshold Experiment (FoRTE) – a modeling and manipulative field experiment that tests effects of disturbance severity type on carbon cycling dynamics in temperate forest. Package consists measurements pools fluxes ancillary to help users analyse interpret over time. Currently includes metadata first two years FoRTE, serves as central, updatable resource for FoRTE project team intended external course perpetuity. Further, it supports all associated publications, analyses, efforts. This increases efficiency, consistency, compatibility, productivity, while minimizing duplicated effort error propagation can arise function large, distributed collaborative effort. More broadly, represents innovative, way approaching science unites expedites delivery complementary datasets near real time broader scientific community, increasing transparency reproducibility taxpayer-funded science. available via GitHub: https://github.com/FoRTExperiment/fortedata detailed documentation access, used, applications are at: https://fortexperiment.github.io/fortedata/. public release, version 1.0.1 also archived https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3936146 (Atkins et al., 2020b). All level one products outside .csv files: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12292490.v3 al. 2020c).