The soil moisture level was significantly higher in the forest interior compared to the forest edge (Table 1, Fig. 1). The temporal variation in soil moisture was larger in the interior than at the edge, but this relative difference varied over the course of the experiment. The edge plots showed only around half the amount of change over
the course of the experiment compared to the interior plots (Fig. 1). The watering treatment significantly increased the soil moisture level at both the interior and edge (Table 1, Fig. 1)