Chronological dataset of soil respiration fluxes from a seasonally dry forest in Northwest México.

Soil respiration (CO emission to the atmosphere from soils) is an important component of the global carbon cycle. In highly seasonal ecosystems the magnitudes and the underlying mechanisms that control soil respiration (R) are still poorly understood and measurements are underrepresented in the global flux community. In this dataset, systematic and monthly measurements of R were conducted with an infrared gas analyzer coupled to a static chamber during 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019 in a tropical dry forest with a land use history from Northwestern México.