Table 8.

Data dictionary for air and soil temperature data from iButtons from Mt. Gongga (dataset vi).

Variable name	Variable type	Variable range or levels	How measured	Units/formats/level coding
Date	date	[yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm_ss]	logged
Temperature (value)	numeric		logged	°C
turfID	factor	[site]x[block]x[treatment]	defined	A1-C – L7-OTC
Site	factor	[site]	defined	High alpine (H), Alpine (A), Middle (M), Lowland (L)
Treatment	Factor	[treatment code]	Defined	Control (C), OTC
depth	factor	[code]	defined	air (30 cm), ground (0 cm), soil (−5 cm)

Data dictionary with column descriptions for dataset vi – the TomsT logger data from Open Top Chambers (OTCs) and control plots at four sites along the 1100 m altitudinal gradient in Mt. Gongga, China.