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5TE soil sensor monitoring

Subcategory: environmental
Standard reference: Fawcett et al. 2019
Papers: 15 | Mentions: 40

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Description

Continuous automated monitoring of soil temperature, moisture, and gas concentrations at multiple depths using sensor arrays. Provides high-resolution temporal data on soil microenvironmental conditions.

Typical Equipment

  • VWC EC-5 Meter Group Pullman WA sensors
  • matric potential kPa Teros 21 sensors
  • O2 concentration BE2-O2-50 Apogee Instruments Logan UT
  • CO2 concentration F0275476 Eosense Dartmouth Canada

Output Measurements

  • soil temperature
  • volumetric water content
  • matric potential
  • O2 concentration
  • CO2 concentration

Papers Using This Protocol (15)

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Observations of surface energy fluxes and meteorology in the seasonally snow-covered high-elevation East River watershed during SPLASH, 2021–2023

2025Earth System Science Datausing
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Soil signals of key mechanisms driving greater protection of organic carbon under aspen compared to spruce forests in a North American montane ecosystem

2025Biogeosciencesusing
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Advanced monitoring of soil-vegetation co-dynamics reveals the successive controls of snowmelt on soil moisture and on plant seasonal dynamics in a mountainous watershed

2023Frontiers in Earth Scienceusing
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Small spaces, big impacts: contributions of micro-environmental variation to population persistence under climate change

2020AOB Plantsusing
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Accelerated snowmelt protocol to simulate climate change induced impacts on snowpack dependent ecosystems

2020Bio-protocolusing
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A molecular investigation of soil organic carbon composition across a subalpine catchment

2018Soil Systemsusing
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First-order controls of soil and leaf moisture

2018using
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Effects of Microclimate on the regeneration of Quaking Aspens, <i>Populus tremuloides</i>

2017using
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How an environment's moisture heterogeneity affects a community's traits

2015introducing
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Does nutrient enrichment interact with <i>Castilleja miniata</i> to alter plant communities in montane meadows?

2012using
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On the spatial distribution and abundance of herbaceous plants in aspen and conifer forest understories: a test of neutral/statistical versus niche-based theories?

2008using
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Microbes on mountainsides: contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity

2008PNASusing
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Physiological and Morphological Changes in Ipomopsis aggregata Along an Elevational Gradient

2006using
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Subalpine forest carbon cycling: Short- and long-term influence of climate and species

2005Ecological Applicationsusing
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Global warming and soil microclimate: results from a meadow-warming experiment

1995Ecological Applicationsusing