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The Data Catalog allows users to find and access data from the Luquillo LTER program by browsing several lists or by using the Advanced Search capability. At present, the catalog contains 171 LTER and 2 non-LTER data sets categorized as either Short- (less than six years) or Long-term and also as either Ongoing or Completed. Data set IDs range from 1 to 204, but not all numbers in this sequence have been used

With the exception of the LFDP Census data (#119), which is collected every five years and the CTE Plot Treatment (#165), collected only after trimming events, we update all of our non-spatial and non-meteorological ongoing data sets every 2 Years in this website and in the LTER Network, data repository hosted by EDI. The Met data from El Verde Field Station are updated each month or after data has gone through our quality control processes.

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Numeric Data Set ID Titlesort ascending Owner/Creator
189 Wood to Soil 0-10 cm data and Wood to Soil 10-20 cm data to detect the imprint of decaying logs (30-80 cm diameter) from two hurricane cohorts (Hugo, 1989, and Georges, 1998) D. Jean Lodge
21 Vegetation profile and canopy height of Tabonuco, Colorado and Cloud Forests Nicholas Brokaw
58 USGS Long-term daily streamflow data at several LEF locations Douglas A. Schaefer
72 USDC NOAA's National Climatic Data Center monthly minimum temperature (2 stations) Douglas A. Schaefer
71 USDC NOAA's National Climatic Data Center monthly average of maximum temperature (2 stations) Nicholas Brokaw
70 USDC NOAA's National Climatic Data Center daily precipitation (5 stations) Nicholas Brokaw
167 Urban-Rural Temperature Data-relation between land-cover and the Urban Heat Island in San Juan, Puerto Rico Charles A.S. Hall
60 Tree Map for Census at the Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot (LFDP), Puerto Rico Jess Zimmerman
57 Tree damage by Hurricane Hugo on the Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot (LFDP), Puerto Rico Jess Zimmerman
204 The role of soil redox conditions in microbial phosphorus cycling in humid tropical forests Avner Gross, Yang Lin, Peter K Weber, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Whendee Silver
171 Terrestrial gastropods abundance data along an elevational gradient within the Sonadora River watershed Michael R. Willig
153 STREAMS Project: Emergent landscape patterns in stream ecosystem processes resulting from groundwater/surface water interactions Catherine Pringle
118 Species names and codes of the Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot (LFDP), Puerto Rico Jess Zimmerman
110 Spatial Variation of Soil Carbon, Nitrogen and Phosphorus in the Luquillo Experimental Forest (LEF) (LEF_SOIL_CNP) Charles A.S. Hall
55 Spatial and temporal differences in shrimp numbers (1 year, 20 pools) Mark Pyron
183 Sonadora elevational plots: long-term monitoring of air temperature Alonso Ramirez
7 Soil sample from landslide ES1 (Espiritu Santo El Verde), ES2, and RB2 (Rio Blanco) Lawrence R. Walker
98 Soil organic matter dynamics in the tabonuco forest, a plantation and a secondary forest in Guzman Xiaoming Zou
200 Soil Moisture and Temperature following experimental drought in the LEF Tana E Wood
Soil factors predict initial plant colonization on Puerto Rican landslides Aaron Shiels
120 Shrimp populations variability in numbers and sizes in response to disturbance and seasons on 20 pools along the reach of Quebrada Prieta, Luquillo Experimental Forest Karen M. Buzby
54 Shrimp populations in Quebrada Prieta (Pools 0, 8, 9, 15) (El Verde) Todd Crowl
115 Short-term disappearance of foliar litter of three tree species native to rain forest of Puerto Rico William H. McDowell
113 Seedling and sapling dynamics of treefall pits and undisturbed florest floor in El Verde, Puerto Rico Lawrence R. Walker
97 Sabana pasture permanent plot vegetation sampling Randall W. Myster
114 Rio Mameyes diatoms in the Rio Mameyes from 1998 to 2001 Brynne Bryan
109 Rio Icacos hyporheic and riparian chemistry William H. McDowell
18 Revegetation of landslides, vegetation > 1.0m (Large landslide plots at the Luquillo Experimental Forest) Lawrence R. Walker
15 Revegetation of landslides, vegetation <0.1m (Small landslide plots at the Luquillo Experimental Forest) Lawrence R. Walker
37 Regeneration after Hurricane Hugo, woody species > 10 cm tall (9Ha grid, El Verde) (9Ha Plots Small Data Set) Nicholas Brokaw
38 Regeneration after Hurricane Hugo woody species more than 1m tall (9ha grid, El Verde) (Large 9Ha Grid) Lawrence R. Walker
39 Regeneration after Hurricane Hugo woody species greater than 1cm tall (9ha grid, El Verde)(Wood fall from Hurricane Hugo 9Ha Grid) Lawrence R. Walker
40 Regeneration after Hurricane Hugo woody species > 1m tall and below 3m: percent cover (9 ha grid, El Verde) Lawrence R. Walker
135 Recovery of a tropical stream after a harvest-related chlorine poisoning event Catherine Pringle
14 Rainfall at El Verde Field Station, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico since 1975 Alonso Ramirez
182 Prieta stream - Discharge and water level at pool 0 Alonso Ramirez
19 Plots_Klawinski Plots KML shapefile and coordinates Paul Klawinski, Andrew McFadden, Miguel C Leon
47 Physical environment of the Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot (LFDP), Puerto Rico Jess Zimmerman
158 Physical and chemical attributes of Quebrada Prieta, Bisley 3, Bisley 5, and Toronja related to shrimp populations measurements Todd Crowl
170 Phrynus habitat selection Christopher P. Bloch
88 Phenologies of the Tabonuco Forest trees and shrubs Jess Zimmerman
108 Patterns in soil chemical and physical properties of the Bisley Watersheds 1 and 2 (Big Dig 1988, Big Dig 1990) Whendee Silver
163 Patterns in litterfall production from 12 forested sites along an elevation gradient in Pico del Este Whendee Silver
150 Pattern morphology for frogs captured at 9 locations in northeastern Puerto Rico over a 25-year period from 1978 to 2002 Lawrence L. Woolbright
Neritina snails upstream migrations at the intersection of Rio Mameyes with road PR Route 3 (bridge 1771)
151 Neritina snails responses to channel realignment Juan Felipe Blanco
141 Neritina snails hierarchical distribution Juan Felipe Blanco
77 NADP/NTN precipitation chemistry data Alonso Ramirez
51 MRCE/LTER Soil and Microbial Biomass Nitrogen D. Jean Lodge
26 MRCE Plots KML shapefile and coordinates Andrew McFadden, Miguel C Leon
17 Minimum temperature at El Verde Field Station, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico since 1975 Alonso Ramirez
33 Meteorological data from towers (pre-Hugo) or rooftop (post Hugo) at El Verde Alonso Ramirez
147 Meteorological data from several climate stations in the northeast section of the Luquillo Experimental Forest Grizelle Gonzalez
127 Meteorological data from El Verde Field Station: NADP Tower Jess Zimmerman
16 Maximum temperature at El Verde Field Station, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico since October 1992 Alonso Ramirez
181 Maximum temperature at El Verde Field Station, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico from January 1975 to August 1992 Alonso Ramirez
191 Luquillo Understory invertebrates Sticky Trap Samples Timothy D. Schowalter
192 Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot (LFDP) Liana Data Nicholas Brokaw
3 Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot (LFDP) KML shapefile and coordinates
177 Lotic Intersite Nitrogen eXperiment II (LINX2): Stream nitrogen (N) dynamics in streams on the eastern side of Puerto Rico William H. McDowell
176 Lotic Intersite Nitrogen eXperiment I (LINX1): Stream nitrogen (N) dynamics in streams on the eastern side of Puerto Rico William H. McDowell
89 Long-term Intersite Decomposition Experiment (LIDET) D. Jean Lodge
123 Long-Term Elevation Plots (LTEP) (Altitudinal transects vegetation data along three rivers in the Luquillo Experimental Forest) Jess Zimmerman
94 Litterfall of the tabonuco forest before Hurricane Hugo Xiaoming Zou
111 Litterfall in tabonuco (subtropical wet) forest in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico (MRCE Litterfall data) orig Alonso Ramirez
95 Litterfall along topographic gradients at lower Bisley Alan Covich
137 Litter invertebrate communities at different elevations in the LEF Barbara A. Richardson
93 Litter decomposition of the tabonuco forest before hurricane Hugo Xiaoming Zou
175 LFDP phenology plot seedlings-16 ha plot Jess Zimmerman
102 Leaf miners (Acrocercops species) larvae performance on young leaves of Manilkara bidentata Maria del Pilar Angulo
185 Leaf litter collected using baskets over the middle of the channel in Prieta arm B and Gatos Alonso Ramirez
36 Landslide Revegetation Canopy Measurements & Cover Estimates Lawrence R. Walker
112 Landslide Removal Experiment vegetation cover and pole touches Lawrence R. Walker
134 Invertebrate dry weight data in various locations, mostly within the LEF at El Verde Michael J. Richardson
125 Interactions between plants and fungi and their roles in decay rates and CO2 release in five tropical leaf species Mirna Santana
139 Indirect upstream effects of dams: consequences of migratory consumer extirpation in Puerto Rico Effie A. Greathouse
28 Howard T. Odum Radiation Plot shapefile and coordinates Andrew McFadden, Miguel C Leon
99 Herbivory of eight common species at El Verde from 1994 to 1996 Maria del Pilar Angulo
130 Heliconia invertebrate counts Barbara A. Richardson
132 Heliconia fluid and organic matter analyses Barbara A. Richardson
133 Heliconia collection data Barbara A. Richardson
194 Habitat selection/Caracolus caracolla and other snails (2019 Ongoing) Michael R. Willig
41 Habitat selection/Caracolus caracolla and other snails Michael R. Willig
87 Germination in three R/FR light environments (El Verde) Jude Jardine
86 Fungi of the Greater Antilles D. Jean Lodge
25 Frog transect data Lawrence L. Woolbright
45 Frog spatial distribution data (El Verde + Bisley) Lawrence L. Woolbright
44 Frog population plots (El Verde and Bisley) Lawrence L. Woolbright
30 Frog grid data (Bisley)
76 Frog abundance in fertilization plots Lawrence L. Woolbright
169 Flooded forest plot sampling in Peru Randall W. Myster
172 Flooded forest plot sampling in Ecuador Randall W. Myster
146 Ferns surveys of individuals of terrestrial ferns in Canopy Trimming Experiment (CTE) plots document changes in species richness and abundance over time in response to canopy opening and/or debris deposition Joanne M. Sharpe
13 Fernandez Plots KML shapefile and coordinates Andrew McFadden, Miguel C Leon
75 Fern sporophyte growth observation at the Luquillo Experimental Forest (LEF) Joanne M. Sharpe
186 Fern leaf traits observation at the Luquillo Experimental Forest (LEF) Joanne M. Sharpe
187 Fern leaf nutrients observation at the Luquillo Experimental Forest (LEF) Joanne M. Sharpe
121 Fern distribution in El Verde CREST (formerly known as MRCE) plots Leslie Finical
124 Factors influencing decomposition of leaves for five plant species at El Verde Mirna Santana
104 Experimentally manipulated biota over a 30-40d period in two streams with distinctly different macrobiotic assemblages Catherine Pringle
122 Experimental Understory Food Web data in the El Verde area of the Luquillo Experimental Forest Paul Klawinski
27 EVFS incoming power lines KML shapefile and coordinates Andrew McFadden, Miguel C Leon
12 Everham's Plots KML shapefile and coordinates Edwin Everham, Andrew McFadden
105 Enclosure/exclosure experiments in a montane Puerto Rican stream examining direct and indirect effects of two dominant taxa of atyid (Atyidae) shrimp, Atya lanipes Holthius and Xiphocaris elongata Guerin-Meneville (Shrimp/ Algae/ Oecologia (1993)) Catherine Pringle
195 Elevational gradients of walking stick (Lamponius portoricensis) abundance Michael R. Willig
11 Elevation Plots KML Shapefile and Coordinates Mei Yu, Jess Zimmerman, Andrew McFadden
179 Elevation Gradient (EG) Soil Microbial diversity FAME and TRFLP data Sharon Cantrell
46 Elevation at grid points on the Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot (LFDP) Jess Zimmerman
190 El Yunque Chronosequence Tree Census data Maria Uriarte, Jess Zimmerman
107 El Verde long-term invertebrate data - Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot (LFDP) Michael R. Willig
184 El Verde Field Station Air temperature from automatic sensor Alonso Ramirez
9 El Verde Field Station (EVFS) Area Boundary KML shapefile and coordinates Mei Yu, Jess Zimmerman, Andrew McFadden
100 El Verde Coffee Plantation permanent plot vegetation sampling Randall W. Myster
106 Effects of biotic (shrimp) and abiotic (discharge) factors on the depositional environment quantified in a montane stream in Puerto Rico. (Shrimp/Algae/Can J. Fish Aquat. Sci. (1994)) Catherine Pringle
149 Effects of a tropical stream poisoning: do they reflect effects of small-scale experiments? Catherine Pringle
103 Effect of plant density and light availability on leaf damage in Manilkara bidentata Maria del Pilar Angulo
101 Ecuador old fields permanent plot vegetation sampling Randall W. Myster
91 Earthworms in tropical tree plantations and secondary forests Xiaoming Zou
92 Earthworms in abandoned tropical pastures Xiaoming Zou
142 Does the River Continuum Concept apply on a tropical island? Longitudinal variation in a Puerto Rican stream Effie A. Greathouse
203 Dendrometers during drought 2013-2016 in the Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot James Aaron Hogan
156 Daily streamflow (Bisley area, 5 stations: Q1, Q2, Q3, Sabana, Puente Roto) Grizelle Gonzalez
202 CTE Soil Density Fractionation 2014 Whendee Silver, Omar Gutierrez del Arroyo Santiago
201 CTE Soil Biogeochemistry 2014 Whendee Silver, Omar Gutierrez del Arroyo Santiago
10 CTE Plots KML shapefile and coordinates Mei Yu, Jess Zimmerman, Andrew McFadden
138 Conservation and management of migratory fauna and dams in tropical streams of Puerto Rico Effie A. Greathouse
128 Coarse Woody Debris in Bisley Experimental Forest and the Rio Icacos Basin
20 Chemistry of stream water from the Luquillo Mountains William H. McDowell
166 Chemistry of soil solution collected from zero tension lysimeters in the Canopy Trimming Experiment (CTE) plots William H. McDowell
174 Chemistry of rainfall and throughfall from El Verde and Bisley William H. McDowell
119 Census of species, diameter and location at the Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot (LFDP), Puerto Rico Jess Zimmerman
22 Cecropia growth at El Verde gaps Nicholas Brokaw
196 Canopy Trimming Experiment Micrometeorological Data -Air and Soil Temperature Daily Averages Alonso Ramirez
178 Canopy Trimming Experiment Litterfall Nutrients Data Whendee Silver
193 Canopy Trimming Experiment (CTE) Walking Stick Data Michael R. Willig
164 Canopy Trimming Experiment (CTE) trace gases Whendee Silver
152 Canopy Trimming Experiment (CTE) Snail data Michael R. Willig
165 Canopy Trimming Experiment (CTE) Plot Treatments Jess Zimmerman
144 Canopy Trimming Experiment (CTE) plants greater than 1 centimeter diameter at breast height (DBH) Jess Zimmerman
143 Canopy Trimming Experiment (CTE) plant seedling measurements Jess Zimmerman
160 Canopy Trimming Experiment (CTE) Microbial EL-FAME Data Sharon Cantrell
180 Canopy Trimming Experiment (CTE) Microbial diversity DNA data Sharon Cantrell
162 Canopy Trimming Experiment (CTE) Litterfall Alonso Ramirez
157 Canopy Trimming Experiment (CTE) litterbag invertebrate counts and weights data Barbara A. Richardson
145 Canopy Trimming Experiment (CTE) Litter decomposition and Connectivity basket data D. Jean Lodge
197 Canopy Trimming Experiment (CTE) Hourly Air Temperature data Alonso Ramirez
155 Canopy Trimming Experiment (CTE) Canopy invertebrate responses to disturbance Timothy D. Schowalter
96 Canopy invertebrate responses to Hurricane Hugo Timothy D. Schowalter
62 Canopy height profile starting 1992, 1994 and 1996 of the Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot (LFDP), Puerto Rico Jess Zimmerman
8 Canopy gap survey at El Verde Nicholas Brokaw
117 Bromeliad plant collection details/data from different elevations in the LEF Barbara A. Richardson
161 Bromeliad invertebrates at different elevations in Dominica Barbara A. Richardson
131 Bromeliad invertebrate counts at different elevations in the LEF Barbara A. Richardson
116 Bromeliad chemistry at different elevations in the LEF Barbara A. Richardson
136 Bisley Watershed 3 and Quebrada Prieta Algae Monitoring Catherine Pringle
90 Bisley Tower I Meteorological data (Bisley Tower) Grizelle Gonzalez
148 Bisley rainfall and throughfall, and chemistry of rainfall and throughfall
43 Bisley Grid Invertebrate Data, 1989-1999 Michael R. Willig
42 Bisley Grid Habitat data 1994, 1999 Michael R. Willig
29 Bisley daily rainfall (Bisley weekly environmental data) Grizelle Gonzalez
31 Bisley 40 X 40 grid vegetation and site characteristics Tamara Heartsill-Scalley
173 Bird abundance-mist nets in the Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot and Nora Devoe Cut Plots in the Luquillos Experimental Forest Robert B. Waide
23 Bird abundance - point counts Robert B. Waide
188 Biodiversity and metacommunity structure of rocky intertidal invertebrates in some coastal ecosystems in Puerto Rico Christopher P. Bloch
24 Anoline Lizard Food Habits Douglas Reagan
4 Anole Vertical Transects (tower data) Douglas Reagan
2 Anole treefall gap transects (Bisley and El Verde-H10 Gaps) Douglas Reagan
5 Anole Mark and Resight Study Douglas Reagan
1 Anole ground level transects (Bisley and El Verde) Douglas Reagan
6 Anole Grid Study Douglas Reagan
52 Above ground biomass in the Espiritu Santo landslide nearby the El Verde Field Station (ES-1) Lawrence R. Walker
199 2015 Drought soil biogeochemistry and greenhouse gas emissions study at El Verde Whendee Silver
168 2004 Estuarine Fish Sampling - Managing freshwater inflow to estuaries in northeast Puerto Rico Katherine Smith

Definitions:
A Data Set is a collection of documents containing metadata and data.
Data is a collection of measurements that are done at the field for a specific purpose, usually done for long-term monitoring of the ecosystem or for a specific experiment.

The data is digitized, usually using a spreadsheet program like Excel, in a matrix-like or table-like manner where each column holds only one type of data representing only one measurement (not summaries embedded in the same column, for example). This structure is particular important to be able to make long-term data series charts and for using many statistical applications.

Thus, a Data File has a specific data structure in the number of columns and their types of data (usually refer to as "data types").

Moreover, the metadata of a Data Set is everything in the data set (except for the data files): the description of the research project that the data set belongs to, names of people and their roles, the abstract of the data set, the definition of each of the columns in the data file, the methodology used in the acquisition of each type of data, the list of instruments used to gather the data (if applicable), the keywords associated to the data, the list of publications which used the data in the data set for a scientific purpose, etc.

In a sharing environment like the LTER's, a Data Catalog is a public list of Data Sets that are clickable and give public access to its metadata, which, in addition, contains a link to the Data File(s) which can be downloaded. Each data file is described separately in what must be considered as part of the Data Set's metadata.

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