f03806fa-3596-4119-90c5-70254f39cfc0 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 2025-11-13T16:20:22 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator Bending strains on the trunks of trees on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, 2022 2023-10-25 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/f03806fa-3596-4119-90c5-70254f39cfc0 10.5285/f03806fa-3596-4119-90c5-70254f39cfc0 doi: Jackson, T.D., Bittencourt, P., Coomes, D.A. (2023). Bending strains on the trunks of trees on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, 2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/f03806fa-3596-4119-90c5-70254f39cfc0 This dataset contains time-series measurements of trees bending in the wind. The data was collected in 2022 in Barro Colorado Island, Panama. 105 trees were measured, with two sensors per tree recording bending strains at 4 Hz. This data was collected for the purpose of estimating the risk of wind damage to these trees. It could also be used to estimate the fundamental sway frequencies of the trees, and how they change over time, which varies with leaf phenology and tree water content. There are lots of short data gaps due to transmission issues in the forest. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/f03806fa-3596-4119-90c5-70254f39cfc0 Jackson, T.D. University of Cambridge tobydjackson@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8143-6161 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 Bittencourt, P. University of Exeter paulo09d@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1618-9077 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 Coomes, D.A. University of Cambridge Dac18@cam.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8261-2582 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 Jackson, T. University of Cambridge tobydjackson@gmail.com pointOfContact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher University of Cambridge tobydjackson@gmail.com owner ecology forest wind tree risk GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Panama Barro Colorado Island GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation Hydrology Bending strain Tree mortality otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Jackson, T.D., Bittencourt, P., Coomes, D.A. (2023). Bending strains on the trunks of trees on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, 2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/f03806fa-3596-4119-90c5-70254f39cfc0 textTable English utf8 environment 2022-01-01 2022-12-31 -79.876 -79.819 9.133 9.18 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/f03806fa-3596-4119-90c5-70254f39cfc0 Download the data Download a copy of this data fileAccess https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/f03806fa-3596-4119-90c5-70254f39cfc0.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 Bending strain sensors were designed and installed on the trees in Barro Colorado Island, Panama. These sensors recorded the bending strain (in mV) at 4 Hz resolution and transmitted it (in binary format) to a data logger where it was saved on an SD. The data was collected from the SD cards and converted from binary format to csv files. The mV measurements were converted to bending strain by multiplying by a fixed calibration coefficient. This 4 Hz bending strain data is provided here.