Soil Respiration Synthesis Daily file metadata
Author: Tara Hudiburg (Stiefel)

Data Citation:  Hibbard, K.A., T.M. Hudiburg, B.E. Law, M. Reichstien, J. Sulzman, et al. (2006, In Press). 
                Northern Hemisphere Temperate Ecosystem Annual Soil Respiration Data (from Hibbard et al. 
                2005. An analysis of soil respiration across northern hemisphere temperate ecosystems. 
                Biogeochemistry 73:29-70).

Funding Credit: This synthesis activity was funded by the US Department of Energy AmeriFlux Science 
                Chair Grant to B.E. Law (No. FG0301ER63278), NASA's Carbon Cycle Science Program 
                (Grant No. NAG5-11223) and the US Department of Energy, through the Great Plains 
                Regional Center of the National Institute for Gobal Environmental Change NIGEC) 
                under Cooperative Agreement No. DE-FC03-90ER61010. 

We thank all of the contributing authors and their teams for providing their data and participating 
in the production of the Hibbard et al. publication.
 
Field Name		Description						

Year			year
DOY			day of year
Month			month
Site			fluxnet site
Biome			biome abbreviation
Rsoil.umolm2s		mean daily soil respiration (micromoles/m2/s)
Avg.Rsoil.se		standard error of mean daily soil respiration (micromoles/m2/s)
Tsoil			mean daily soil temperature (celcius)
Soil Moisture		mean daily soil moisture (percent)


Site Name		Description				Data Source / Contacts / * corresponding co-author

BEQ			Belgium de_Inslag Oak			Jorge Curiel Yuste, Ivan Janssens*
BEP			Belgium de_Inslag Pine			Jorge Curiel Yuste, Ivan Janssens*
BIL			Bilos					Denis Loustau, Alexandre Bosc, Regis Burlett, Paul Berbigier
BRY			Bray					Denis Loustau, Alexandre Bosc, Regis Burlett, Paul Berbigier
CHD			Cascade Head				John Campbell, Bev Law
DUK			Duke FACE				Bill Schlesinger, Jeff Pippen
GBC			Great Basin (Rush Valley) cheatgrass	Ron Ryel
GBJ			Great Basin juniper			Ron Ryel
GBR			Great Basin crested wheatgrass		Ron Ryel
GBS			Great Basin sage			Ron Ryel
HAR			Harvard					Eric Davidson, Kathleen Savage
HES			Hesse					Andre Granier, Daniel Epron
HJA			HJ Andrews				John Campbell, Bev Law
HOW			Howland					Dave Hollinger
HRM			Herm					Denis Loustau, Alexandre Bosc, Regis Burlett, Paul Berbigier
IOM			Ione modelled				Dennis Baldocchi, Jianwu Tang
ION			Ione observed				Dennis Baldocchi, Jianwu Tang
JUN			Metolius Juniper Site			Bev Law
MEC			Metolius Chronosequence			Bev Law
MEO			Metolius old site			Bev Law		
MEY			Metolius young site			Bev Law
NIW			Niwot Ridge				Laura Scott-Denton, Russ Monson
SKO			Sky oaks old site			Yufu Cheng* - send to Walt Oechel, he will forward
SKY			Sky oaks young site			Yufu Cheng* - send to Walt Oechel, he will forward
THA			Tharandt				Christian Bernhofer*, Thomas Grünwald 
TML			Temple					Denis Loustau, Alexandre Bosc, Regis Burlett, Paul Berbigier, Antoine Colin
TNZ			Tonzi					Jianwu Tang
UMB			Univ. of Michigan Biological Station	Peter Curtis, Christoph Vogel
VLB			Vielsalm Beech				Marc Aubinet, Bernard Longdoz
VLD			Vielsalm Douglas-fir			Marc Aubinet, Bernard Longdoz
WCR			Willow Creek				Paul Bolstad*, Jon Martin
WDN			Weidenbrunnen				Jens-Arne Subke, John Tenhunen