4f3cf9f6-d7e5-4ae0-87c9-064b4e66a92a English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:26:59 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Vertical profile data of light transmission in Atlantic forests along a disturbance gradient 2017-10-06 publication 2015-11-05 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/4f3cf9f6-d7e5-4ae0-87c9-064b4e66a92a 10.5285/4f3cf9f6-d7e5-4ae0-87c9-064b4e66a92a doi: Fauset, S., Gloor, M.U., Aidar, M.A.P., Freitas, H.C., Fyllas, N.M., Joly, C.A., Marabesi, M.A., Rochelle, A.L.C., Shenkin, A., Vieira, S.A. (2017). Vertical profile data of light transmission in Atlantic forests along a disturbance gradient. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/4f3cf9f6-d7e5-4ae0-87c9-064b4e66a92a The data set contains vertical profiles of diffuse light transmittance measured within six forest plots in montane Atlantic forest, São Paulo state, Brazil. The plots measured include intact, previously logged and secondary forest in a large continuous forest block of the Serra do Mar State Park (Parque Estadual de Serra do Mar), and two forest fragments outside the park. In each plot 10 - 12 individual light profiles were recorded; the data set contains these individual profiles and averages profiles for each plot based on both height above the ground and depth below the canopy. Each profile was measured only once. Data was collected March - November 2015 as part of the NERC Human modified Tropical Forest Programme. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/4f3cf9f6-d7e5-4ae0-87c9-064b4e66a92a Fauset, S. University of Leeds s.fauset@leeds.ac.uk pointOfContact Fauset, S. University of Leeds s.fauset@leeds.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4246-1828 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Gloor, M.U. University of Leeds eugloor@gmail.com author Aidar, M.A.P. Instituto de Botânica de São Paulo maidar@uol.com.br author Freitas, H.C. Universidade Estadual Paulista freitashelber@gmail.com author Fyllas, N.M. University of Leeds nfyllas@gmail.com author Joly, C.A. Universidade Estadual de Campinas cjoly@unicamp.br author Marabesi, M.A. Instituto de Botânica de São Paulo mauromarabesi@usp.br author Rochelle, A.L.C. Universidade Estadual de Campinas andrerochele@yahoo.com.br author Shenkin, A. University of Oxford alexander.shenkin@ouce.ox.ac.uk author Vieira, S.A. Universidade Estadual de Campinas savieira08@gmail.com author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher University of Leeds EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner notPlanned tropical ecosystem microclimate radiation forest GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Brazil São Paulo GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation montane diffuse light disturbance logging fragmentation secondary forest Atlantic forest otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © University of Leeds 2017 otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Fauset, S., Gloor, M.U., Aidar, M.A.P., Freitas, H.C., Fyllas, N.M., Joly, C.A., Marabesi, M.A., Rochelle, A.L.C., Shenkin, A., Vieira, S.A. (2017). Vertical profile data of light transmission in Atlantic forests along a disturbance gradient. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/4f3cf9f6-d7e5-4ae0-87c9-064b4e66a92a textTable English utf8 biota environment climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere 2015-03-05 2015-11-05 -45.241 -45.068 -23.328 -23.1 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/4f3cf9f6-d7e5-4ae0-87c9-064b4e66a92a Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/4f3cf9f6-d7e5-4ae0-87c9-064b4e66a92a.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 This dataset is part of the NERC-FAPESP project ECOFOR. Data were collected from 4 plots in the Serra do Mar State Park (Nucleo Santa Virginia), and in two forest fragments on private land. Individual diffuse light profiles were produced by suspending a string of photosyntheticall active radiation (PAR) sensors from a tree branch. 10 - 12 profiles were collected per plot, and each profile was always at least 20 m from other profile locations. Sensors in the profile were separated at 1 m intervals. A reference open sky sensor was placed nearby. Sensors collected data from each profile for a minimum of 1 hour and maximum of 3 days, always including a period of diffuse light. Data were manually examined to identify diffuse periods, and for all records from diffuse periods the % light received compared to the open sky reference was calculated (% transmission). The mean % transmission across the diffuse period for each sensor was calculated to produce the light profile. Any missing values in the profile were interpolated or extrapolated. Average profiles for the plot were made using height above the ground and depth below the canopy top.