Appendix A. Climate data and references for each study year.
TABLE A1. A list of study years used in the synthesis analysis, including references and corresponding mean (± standard error) monthly precipitation and temperature data. Climate data is from the weather station located at Bradley International Airport, Hartford, Connecticut, USA, which is the closest weather station to our study site (<50 km) that had data available for each year of our study (NOAA 2008).
Year |
n |
Duration (d) |
Cage size (m2) |
Precipitation (cm) |
Temperature (C°) |
ANNP (g/m2/d) |
19941 |
10 |
60 |
0.1 |
4.83 ± 0.50 |
22.63 ± 1.23 |
2.42 |
19951 |
10 |
60 |
0.1 |
2.47 ± 0.81 |
22.57 ± 1.16 |
2.45 |
19962 |
10 |
60 |
0.25 |
3.24 ± 1.56 |
22.06 ± 0.43 |
3.5 |
19973 |
10 |
55 |
0.25 |
4.38 ± 1.58 |
21.31 ± 0.58 |
3.96 |
19994 |
6 |
50 |
1.0 |
3.41 ± 0.64 |
21.64 ± 0.99 |
1.01 |
20005 |
15 |
42 |
0.25 |
4.84 ± 1.32 |
20.54 ± 0.35 |
1.56 |
20015 |
15 |
42 |
0.25 |
3.27 ± 1.22 |
22.52 ± 0.88 |
1.56 |
2008* |
5 |
100 |
1.0 |
3.83 ± 0.67 |
22.41 ± 1.03 |
2.45 |
*This study: we used the data from the control treatment cages in the heating experiment described in this paper.
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