Climate wetness index calculation

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Method synopsis

Calculation of site-specific wetness indices using mean annual precipitation and temperature data to characterize local climate conditions for experimental sites.

Synthesized from method descriptions across 1 paper using this protocol.

Procedure from a recent peer-reviewed implementation

Steps below were extracted from the most recent peer-reviewed implementation of this protocol in the corpus — A meta-analysis of 1,119 manipulative experiments on terrestrial carbon-cycling responses to global change (2019), Nature Ecology & Evolutiion. Implementations in other papers (listed below) may differ.

1. Calculate wetness indices and climate variables
   Calculated wetness index as MAP/(MAT + 10) where MAP is mean annual precipitation and MAT is mean annual temperature. Used site coordinates to extract climate data and calculate environmental variables for each experimental site.
   Quantities: Calculated for all experimental sites with available coordinate and climate dataDuration: Not specifiedConditions: Used site-specific climate conditions
   Equipment: Climate databases, GIS software for coordinate-based climate extraction

Typical Equipment

• Climate databases
• GIS software

Output Measurements

• wetness index values
• mean annual temperature
• mean annual precipitation

Papers Using This Protocol (1)

Species Studied With This Protocol

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