Identification

Title

Measurements of respiration and microbial assimilation of carbon substrates and priming of soil organic matter mineralisation in tropical lowland and montane forest soils

Abstract

This dataset includes measurements of microbial community composition by phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis, soil respiration (Carbon dioxide (CO2)), soil physico-chemical properties and 13C enrichment in CO2 samples and microbial Phospholipid Fatty Acids (PLFAs). Data were produced for an investigation of the effects of carbon (C) substrate addition on soil carbon cycling processes in ten tropical soils from the Peruvian Andes. Soils were amended with 13C labelled substrates (xylose, glycine, vanillin and hemicellulose) and incubated under controlled conditions for 7 days. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/cc264d08-ba89-42f0-a7cf-9c9477e1e2bd

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/cc264d08-ba89-42f0-a7cf-9c9477e1e2bd

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https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/cc264d08-ba89-42f0-a7cf-9c9477e1e2bd.zip

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Unique resource identifier

code

1409915800452

codeSpace

CEH:EIDC:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GeoNames

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2006-01-01

Keyword set

keyword value

soil organic matter

microbial community composition

decomposition

respiration

priming

montane cloud forest

ecosystem function

bacterial

fungal

forest

tropical lowland

soil

montane

Andes

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-81.33

East bounding longitude

-68.68

North bounding latitude

-0.012

South bounding latitude

-18.35

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2012-01-01

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2014-11-26

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Soils were sampled in January 2012 from ten sites along a tropical elevation gradient located on the east flank of the Peruvian Andes, with site elevations ranging from 210 to 3400 metres (m) above sea-level (asl). All sites have continuous forest cover ranging from lowland Amazonian rainforest to upper montane cloud forest; the tree-line is situated at approximately 3500 m asl. Annual temperature decreases with increasing elevation along this transect, from 26-8 degrees Centigrade (oC). Annual precipitation ranges from 1700 to 3200 millemetres per year (mm yr-1). Soil water content has been reported to have no clear relationship with elevation, partly due to limited evapotranspiration and fog deposition within the cloud immersion zone (1500-3400 m asl). At each site, the organic layer was sampled from 5 sub-plots within established 1 hectare (ha) plots with the organic layer removed from a 40 x 40 centimetre (cm) area in each sub-plot. Soils were sealed in plastic bags, immediately transported to the laboratory, and stored at 4 oC for 6 weeks until used for experimentation and analysis.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

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explanation

Data format

name of format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

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Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Whitaker, J., Ostle, N., McNamara, N., Nottingham, A.T., Stott, A.W., Bardgett, R.D., Salinas, N., Ccahuana, A.J.Q., Meir, P. (2014). Measurements of respiration and microbial assimilation of carbon substrates and priming of soil organic matter mineralisation in tropical lowland and montane forest soils. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/cc264d08-ba89-42f0-a7cf-9c9477e1e2bd

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

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organisation name

Lancaster University

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

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organisation name

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

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organisation name

University of Edinburgh

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

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organisation name

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

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organisation name

University of Manchester

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

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author

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organisation name

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

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author

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organisation name

Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

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author

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organisation name

University of Edinburgh

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

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organisation name

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

custodian

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organisation name

NERC Environmental Information Data Centre

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

publisher

Responsible party

organisation name

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

owner

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environmental Information Data Centre

full postal address

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg

Lancaster

LA1 4AP

UK

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2023-02-09T11:09:15

Metadata language

eng