This data set provides the peat water content and peat temperature at time of sampling for peat cores collected before and during the SPRUCE Deep Peat Heating (DPH) study. Cores were collected during three sampling events: 03 June 2014, 09 September 2014, and 16 June 2015.

Two cores were extracted from hollow locations in each of the 10 experimental plots (4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 13, 16, 17, 19, and 20). Cores were partitioned into samples at 11 depth increments: 0-10, 10-20, 20-30, 30-40, 40-50, 50-75, 75-100, 100-125, 125-150, 150-175, and 175-200 cm below surface of the hollow.

This data set reports community-level CO₂ and CH₄ flux measurements for the SPRUCE experimental study plots located in the S1-Bog. Surface flux measurements of CO₂ and CH₄ were made using open-path analyzers over an area of 1.13 m² within each of 16 plots.  A custom-designed chamber encloses the hummock-hollow topography and allows point in time measurements of the shrub, forb, Sphagnum spp. and the complex microbial community.

This data set provides annual movies created from daily and twice daily images of vegetation stands in the S1 Bog showing the seasonal changes of vegetation and appearance and disappearance of snow for the period June 2010 through December 2015. Compiled movies are useful for examining the phenology of the bog and the changes to the landscape as experimental facilities have been constructed.

This data set contains biochemical, morphological, and physiological data collected between 2010 and 2013 on mature black spruce (Picea mariana) trees at the S1 bog site in northern Minnesota, located 40 km north of Grand Rapids in the USDA Forest Service Marcell Experimental Forest (MEF). These data were collected prior to the initiating of heating and elevation of CO2 for the SPRUCE experiment to assess the response of northern peatland ecosystems to increases in temperature and exposures to elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations.