Description
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Three ruggedized soil moisture sensors (model GS-3; Decagon 302 Devices, Pullman, Washington, USA) were installed directly into 5.6 cm pre-drilled holes (length of probes) within tree trunks, in order to provide a measure tree relative dielectric constant (RDCtree) at Diameter Breast High (DBH). The probes are sensitive to liquid water, as liquid water has a high dielectric constant. The dielectric constant (D) follows ambient temperature in winter, but is near constant when trunks are thawed in the spring (Roy et al., 2020; Matheny et al., 2015). (2021-03-11)
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Related Publication
| Pierrat, Z., Nehemy, M.F., Roy, A., Magney, T., Parazoo, N., Laroque, C., Pappas, C., Sonnentag, O., Grossman, K., Bowling, D.R., Seibt, U., Ramirez, A., Johnson, B., Helgason, W., Barr, A., Stutz, J. (2021) Tower-based remote sensing reveals mechanisms behind a two-phased spring transition in a mixed species boreal forest, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, accepted.
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