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Soil nutrients, bulk density and pyrogenic carbon in permanent monitoring plots along altitudinal and forest perturbation gradients in the Colombian Andes, 2019-2022

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Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
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Summary

The dataset contains information on soil nutrients including pH, available phosphorus, total phosphorus, texture analysis in sand, clay and silt, and exchangeable Ca, Mg, K, Na. Soil pyrogenic carbon, including Total Organic Carbon (TOC) (%C_(Bulk)), pyrogenic carbon D13C (lower, median, and upper), pyrogenic carbon (Cpyc), Cpyc%/CBulk, organic carbon and soil bulk density and dry weight of roots. The datasets include information about the plot location and parameters of the locality. The data were collected between 2019 and 2022 from 27 forest monitoring plots (0.5 ha each) in five locations along an altitudinal (lowland, mid-elevation, and highland forests) and forest perturbation (low, medium, and high perturbation levels) gradient in Andean ecosystems in Colombia. The objective of this data collection was to determine the change in soil characteristics between the disturbance gradients. This information is important for understanding the drivers of variation in forest resilience and the impacts of disturbance on ecosystem functioning. This data set was obtained within the framework of the BioResilience project, a transdisciplinary investigation that seeks to understand the Resilience of forest ecosystems after the post-conflict period in Colombia. This research was supported by the UK Natural Environment Research Council Fund (NE/R017980/1). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/fbcfc877-a38e-4c26-8d8b-7226392493db

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
25 July 2026
Harvest GUID
fbcfc877-a38e-4c26-8d8b-7226392493db
Extent (Latitude)
6.61° to 4.409°
Extent (Longitude)
-76.19° to -74.103°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2023-09-11
Access constraints
When using these data, please consider citing the corresponding paper: Montes-Pulido, C.R., Bird, M.I., Serrano, J., Quesada, C.A. and Feldpausch, T.R. (2024), Climatic and edaphic drivers of soil organic carbon and pyrogenic carbon stocks across elevation and disturbance gradients in Colombian Andean forests. Global Change Biology.
Responsible party
(author, pointOfContact, publisher, owner, custodian); Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (author)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng