Soil Bulk Density - Surface and Deep Cores

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Soil bulk density on surface and deep core soil samples from 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 October 2009
Dataset:	KBS078
Datatable ID:	KBS078-005.65
Core Areas	Disturbance
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Personnel:	Phil Robertson, lead investigator
Last Updated	2018-05-03

Variate	Description	Units
sample date	date the sample was taken
site	experiment location
treatment name	treatment description
treatment	experimental treatment
station	plot sampling location
top depth cm	upper sample core depth	centimeter
bottom depth cm	lower depth of soil core	centimeter
nominal top depth	the nominal top depth (what the sampling protocol called for)	centimeter
nominal bottom depth	the nominal bottom depth of the core (what the sampling protocol called for)	centimeter
core diameter	diameter of the soil core	centimeter
total bulk density	bulk density including gravel	grams/cubiccentimeter
comments	notes on the data row
campaign	type of soil sampling

Protocols
Baseline Soil Sampling and Analysis- GLBRC BCSE, Scale-Up, & Marginal Sites

GLBRC data is not yet publicly available.

Data Excerpt

sample_date	site	treatment_name	treatment	station	top_depth_cm	bottom_depth_cm	nominal_top_depth	nominal_bottom_depth	core_diameter	total_bulk_density	campaign
2014-12-02	KBS Lux Arbor Reserve	AGR-Corn	L1	S1	0.0	10.0	0.0	10.0	7.6	1.4639	deep core sampling
2014-12-02	KBS Lux Arbor Reserve	AGR-Corn	L1	S1	10.0	25.0	10.0	25.0	7.6	1.8210	deep core sampling
2014-12-02	KBS Lux Arbor Reserve	AGR-Corn	L1	S1	25.0	50.0	25.0	50.0	7.6	1.6597	deep core sampling
2014-12-02	KBS Lux Arbor Reserve	AGR-Corn	L1	S1	50.0	80.0	50.0	100.0	7.6		deep core sampling
2014-12-02	KBS Lux Arbor Reserve	AGR-Corn	L1	S10	0.0	10.0	0.0	10.0	7.6	1.3948	deep core sampling