Greiser et al. (2023) Higher soil moisture increases microclimate temperature buffering in temperate broadleaf forests - Data and Code

Daily maximum temperatures in forest understories were on average 2 °C cooler than outside temperatures. () The buffering of understory temperatures was more effective when soil moisture was higher, and the offsets were more sensitive to soil moisture on sites with drier soils and on sun-exposed slopes with high topographic heat load. Based on these results, the soil-water limitation to forest temperature buffering will become more prevalent under future warmer conditions and will likely lead to changes in understory communities.

Thus, our results highlight the urgent need to include soil moisture in models and predictions of forest microclimate, understory biodiversity and tree regeneration, to provide a more precise estimate of the effects of climate change. List of files: 02_model_offset_from_soilmoist_rev.r => R-script for the statistical analysis model_data_complete_figshare.csv => cleaned and complete data for the statistical analysis model_data_4thday_figshare.csv => cleaned and "thinned" data for the statistical analysis README.txt => metadata describing columns in the dataframes and the environment of the R-script