PNNL

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 the effects of disturbance severity and disturbance type on carbon cycling dynamics in a temperate forest. Package data consists of measurements to support quantification of carbon pools and ancillary measurements to help analyse and interpret these carbon cycling dynamics over time. Currently the package includes data and metadata from the first two years of FoRTE, and serves as a central, updatable resource for the FoRTE project team and all external users over the course of the experiment and in perpetuity. Further, it supports all associated FoRTE publications, analyses, and modeling efforts. This increases efficiency, consistency, compatibility, and productivity, while minimizing duplicated effort and error propagation that can arise as a function of a large, distributed and collaborative effort. More broadly, fortedata represents an innovative, collaborative way of approaching science that unites and expedites the delivery of complementary datasets in near-real time to the broader scientific community, and increases transparency and reproducibility.