Soil Inorganic Nitrogen - Early Successional Microplots — Main Cropping System Experiment (MCSE)
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Inorganic nitrogen concentrations of ammonia and nitrate in soils of the fertilization and disturbance microplots on the LTER Early Successional treatment (T7).
5 soil cores (0-10 cm, diam=1.9 cm) were collected on the SW-NE diagonal in the center of the 3×3m plot
This datatable is part of the Plant Community and Ecosystem Responses to Long-term Fertilization & Disturbance dataset.
This work is part of the long-term sampling and monitoring of successional dynamics in abandoned fields – and responses to N-fertilization. Data from this research has been, and will continue to, contribute to LTER cross-site analysis of plant community dynamics, diversity-productivity, and responses to fertilization and disturbance.
N-fertilized and tilled (disturbed) microplots are located in the NW corner of all treatment 7 (early successional communities) on the LTER main site.
Experimental treatments are:
- Nitrogen addition vs. no nitrogen addition and 2) Annual disturbance vs. undisturbed
Note
| Experiment: | Main Cropping System Experiment (MCSE) |
| Data available from: | April 1996 to October 2011 |
| Dataset: | KBS055 |
| Datatable ID: | KBS055-002.56 |
| Core Areas | Inorganic Nutrients,Disturbance |
| Repository link: | http://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/ea22c735ddfe17c595ccca978a87d109 |
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| Last Updated | 2023-10-24 |
| Variate | Description | Units |
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| sample date | collection date of the sample | |
| Year | year the sample is assigned to | |
| treatment | Main Site treatment that the microplot is located in | |
| replicate | Main Site replicate that microplot is located in | |
| plot id | plot ID that the sample was collected from | |
| disturbed | indicates whether the plot is tilled (true) or not (false) | |
| fertilized | indicates whether the plot is fertilized (true) or not (false) | |
| top depth cm | the top of the sample column with 0 cm as the soil surface | cm |
| bottom depth cm | the bottom of the soil column collected with 0 cm as the soil surface | cm |
| moisture percent | soil moisture of the sample in percent (w/w) | % |
| nh4 n ug g | ammonium N content of the sample (micro grams NH4-N per gram of soil) | μg/g |
| no3 n ug g | nitrate N content of the sample (micro grams NO3-N per gram of soil) | μg/g |
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Data Excerpt
| sample_date | year | treatment | replicate | plot_id | disturbed | fertilized | top_depth_cm | bottom_depth_cm | moisture_percent | nh4_n_ug_g | no3_n_ug_g |
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| 2011-10-03 | 2011 | T7 | R6 | 6711 | true | true | 0 | 10 | 18.18 | 11.8 | 7.14 |
| 2011-10-03 | 2011 | T7 | R6 | 6710 | true | false | 0 | 10 | 20.09 | 2.96 | 0.3 |
| 2011-10-03 | 2011 | T7 | R6 | 6701 | false | true | 0 | 10 | 19.69 | 5.06 | 1.22 |
| 2011-10-03 | 2011 | T7 | R6 | 6700 | false | false | 0 | 10 | 19.23 | 5.96 | 0.06 |
| 2011-10-03 | 2011 | T7 | R5 | 5711 | true | true | 0 | 10 | 19.29 | 2.78 | 3.75 |