Soil Total Carbon and Nitrogen - Surface and Deep Core

Carbon and nitrogen measurements of surface soil samples taken from each station on the GLBRC Biofuel Scale-up sites.

This datatable is part of the KBS GLBRC soil properties dataset. Soil property measurements from the surface soils of the intensive experiment

Experiment:	GLBRC Scale-up Experiment
Data available from:	April 2009 to April 2015
Dataset:	KBS078
Datatable ID:	KBS078-009.62
Core Areas	Organic Matter,Disturbance
Related Tables:	Soil pH Soil Moisture - Gravimetric Soil Bulk Density - Surface and Deep Cores Soil Bulk Density - Surface and Deep Cores Soil Inorganic Nitrogen Soil Inorganic Nitrogen Soil Inorganic Nitrogen via Resin Strips Soil Inorganic Nitrogen Soil Moisture via TDR - Daily Agronomic Soil Chemistry - GLBRC Intensive Sites Soil Texture by Depth - Deep Cores Soil Texture by Depth - Deep Cores Agronomic Soil Chemistry - KBS GLBRC Scaleup sites Soil Moisture GLBRC Scale-up Carbon and Nitrogen- Baseline Prior to GLBRC Intensive Site Soil pH - GLBRC Scaleup sites Soil Texture and Soil Organic Matter at ERT Plots Field Moist Soil pH
Personnel:	Phil Robertson, lead investigator
Last Updated	2017-01-26

Variate	Description	Units
year	year of the growing season
campaign	distinct activity
sample date	date the sample was collected
treatment name	treatment description
treatment	experimental treatment
replicate	replicate nested in treatment
station	sampling location
top depth	nominal upper depth of the soil core	centimeter
bottom depth	nominal lower depth of the soil sample	centimeter
nitrogen	percent nitrogen content in soil	%
carbon	percent carbon content in soil	%

Protocols
MCSE: Soil C and N
Costech Elemental Combustion System CHNS-O (ECS 4010)
Baseline Soil Sampling and Analysis- GLBRC BCSE, Scale-Up, & Marginal Sites

GLBRC data is not yet publicly available.

Data Excerpt

year	campaign	sample_date	treatment_name	treatment	replicate	station	bottom_depth	nitrogen	carbon
2015	soil surface CN	2015-12-15	AGR-Switchgrass	L2	R1	S1	25	0.0783	0.6857
2015	soil surface CN	2015-12-15	AGR-Switchgrass	L2	R1	S10	25	0.0893	0.856
2015	soil surface CN	2015-12-15	AGR-Switchgrass	L2	R1	S2	25	0.0681	0.61
2015	soil surface CN	2015-12-15	AGR-Switchgrass	L2	R1	S3	25	0.0949	0.919
2015	soil surface CN	2015-12-15	AGR-Switchgrass	L2	R1	S4	25	0.0779	0.7263