Identification

Title

Chemical analysis of nitrogen transformations in biochar amended soil

Abstract

These data are from an investigation of the effects of biochar application to soil, on soil greenhouse gas emissions and N transformations within the soil. Biochar is a carbon rich substance which is being advocated as a climate mitigation tool to increase carbon sequestration and reduce nitrous oxide emissions. The data were collected during a 15N pool dilution incubation to investigate the nitrogen transformations within biochar-amended soil following the addition of 15N-labelled ammonium nitrate. Analyses included 15N content of nitrous oxide and 15N content of soil. The N transformations were then modelled using a model for calculating nitrogen fluxes in soil using 15N tracing (FLUAZ model). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/69d89261-b7ee-4b56-bb13-1128e3c8dd93

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

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description: Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset.

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

1377096940873

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

Soil

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GeoNames

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2006-01-01

Keyword set

keyword value

biochar

chemistry

soil

N2O

nitrous oxide

greenhouse gas

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-0.95

East bounding longitude

0.358

North bounding latitude

53.726

South bounding latitude

52.64

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2011-03-01

End position

2012-01-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2013-10-31

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Twenty soil cores were collected from a field site in Lincolnshire in March 2011, three weeks after planting and Nitrogen fertiliser addition. Soil cores of 150-180 millimetre (mm) depth, containing approximately 1.6 kilogram soil (dry weight) were extracted in Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipes (height 215 mm depth 102 mm) and stored at 4 degrees centigrade for 30 days. A four-treatment factorial experiment was designed using soils un-amended or amended with biochar and un-wetted or wetted with deionised water (5 replicates per treatment). Soil in all the cores was mixed to 7 centimetre (cm) depth. To half of the cores, biochar (less than 2 mm) was mixed into the soil at a rate of 3 percent soil dry weight (approximately 22 tons per hectare (t ha-1)). After allowing for any potential Carbon dioxide (CO2) flush from newly-mixed soil to equilibrate for seven days, the cores were placed at 16 degrees centigrade in the dark. Un-wetted soil cores were maintained at 23 percent Gravimetric moisture content (GMC), whilst the GMC of 'wetted' soil cores was increased to 28 percent GMC at the time zero (t0) of four wetting events on day 17, 46, 67 and 116. These water addition rates were based on mean and maximum monthly soil GMC measured in the field between 2009-2010.

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

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Limitations on public access

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Limitations on public access

© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

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Limitations on public access

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Case, S.D.C., McNamara, N.P., Reay, D.S., Stott, A.W., Grant, H.K., Whitaker, J. (2013). Chemical analysis of nitrogen transformations in biochar amended soil. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/69d89261-b7ee-4b56-bb13-1128e3c8dd93

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

The University of Edinburgh

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

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organisation name

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

custodian

Responsible party

organisation name

NERC Environmental Information Data Centre

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

publisher

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

2022-05-20T10:42:03

Metadata language

eng